So lovely to have last minute sign ups Bernadette and Marie come to help Ed and Linda at Frenford food bank today. Relatively new additions Marie and Bernadette they are already invaluable members of the team. They joined in with super shelf stacker Ed, who was already working with a Frenford volunteer, unpacking two cages of donations and several supermarket delivery crates.

That job got finished in super quick time so the dynamic duo then joined Linda in labeling up the cages for the next picking and packing session, meanwhile Ed restocked the pasta shelves from the store room. Unfortunately moving the pasta uncovered evidence of the inevitable visitor one is likely to get with this kind of stock in storage 🐭💩. That's a little job for another day, next installment to follow tomorrow.

4 goodgymmers and a friend joined forces to restock and stock-take at Frenford food bank this week.

The ggers started by offloading the donations and abandoned collections whilst the friend date checked the biscuits. Sadly there were quite a few that were out of date and we now have procedures in place to make sure they are properly rotated.

Attention was then turned to bringing stock in from the store room while one of us had a count up so the task owner knows how much they need to buy in for the next session.

It was a nice relaxed session with everyone going about their tasks generally chitchatting as they went.

Forgot to take photos so here are some previous ones of all those involved.

A big welcome to Marie and Hayder our two newest GG recruits to the Food Bank at Frenford.

With the four of us quickly clearing donations from the local scouts we decided to make good use of the spare time by checking the BBE dates on the stock. A few out of date items were left with a sign telling people to help themselves at their own risk and a couple of jars of peanut butter that would be out if date by our next deliveries went to a kind church goer who will use them to bake cakes for a fund raiser for the church that our generous scouts attend...nothing goes to waste if we can help it.😁

Report from Hayder ... It was lovely we had to sort out the dates for the food (me and Marie) and Linda and ed were very nice to us. Hope to do it again.

We hope you will do it again too, you were all a great help.