Nishy made a come back at the ESK and started off with doing the food parcels. Then joined Jacqui with sorting out clothes. Finished with service chicken or veg stir fry in wraps with salad. It was very busy today.

Friday morning and 2 goodgymers made their way to the Ealing Soup Kitchen Friday Hub. Chris and Nishy were on duty to help Angela. Dont know if Nishy is not a morning person, but definitely is a cupcake person!Homemade cupcakes which she donated to ESK for the guests to enjoy. Apart from eating cupcakes the 2 legends started by separating the savoury and sweet pastry for individual packing. Then moved to packing the veggie burgers for the bags. Finished off by doing the 50 non homeless bags. Chris was on the meat duties. You can't buy happiness, but you can buy cupcakes and that's kind of the same thing

It's part 2 of the painting task and the same team assembled like the previous one. We had two more GoodGymers joined this time. Nishy ran from Hanwell and Alaa joined us for her first GoodGym task.

Welcome to GoodGym Ealing, Alaa

We didn't have a problem wearing the aprons as we had experience from last time. Mandie got us some watermelons, pineapples, and water bottles to keep us refreshed. It was getting warm after some time.

Kash, Nishy, and I used the big rollers and went up and down whereas Claire, Clare, and Sevan focussed on touchup using small brushes. Tbh using the small brushes was a niche work and required more effort and care. This time we got a ladder and Claire was covering the top of the walls for some time. It was Alaa's first painting task. She took regular rollers and covered the area near the windows.

We got lost in time and it was almost noon. We then wrapped up and Claire owned the cleaning up like last time. Sevan was busy finishing up his artwork and was going at it till the last minute. We had some bites of watermelon before the team dispersed.

So if you feel like you missed this one don't worry as we will be coming back for another painting session sometime end of this month or next month.

Bank Holiday Monday and 4 goodgymers checked in at the Salvation Army Hall for the Ealing Soup Kitchen takeaway service. We welcomed Naomi her 1st mission: welcome 🙌🎉. Usual tasks of setting up tables and preparing snack and grocery bags by the team with a twist of tasting sweets ...quality street sweets 😋. Think we all needed some sugar and enjoyed the sweet treats Emma allowd us to have as the quality test needed to be done before putting them in the bags. Plenty of bread 🍞, flat sausages, desserts, fruit and pasta to be given to the guests. Tuna Pasta bake on the menu with the veggie option. Clothes also needed to be sorted and labelled.