Bromley Borough Foodbank

Helping local people get back on their feet

7 GoodGymers have supported Bromley Borough Foodbank with 2 tasks.


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Brushing up - Round 2 at The Glades

Tuesday 18th June

Written by Bromley runner

Nick and Louise gave a first coat of paint to the walls of the Bromley Food Bank unit in The Glades shopping centre in May, and Michael and I joined them for June's follow up where we put on a second coat to make the space really shine!

We met Ray, one of the Food Bank's campaign coordinators, and started unpacking materials to paint with. Nick and Louise picked up brushes 🖌️ and rollers to start work on the large sections of walls, whilst Michael and I found the masking tape and covered the (many!) sockets, light switches and other protrusions to ensure they kept their current colours 😆

By the end of the session we'd got both walls done and posed for a group photo before heading out 📷

Nice work, team! 🦸

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HannahIan Moore

Nick of the Trade

Tuesday 14th May

Written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)

Massive shout-out and big props to Nick who joined the 100 club tonight. That's a lot of time doing stuff to help out community projects that need a hand. Nick has been a GG Bromley member as long as I have and I'm so pleased he's in the team. Nick gets a fresh 💯 tee with wings. 🦅 Woooop!

Right, let's see how many Nick puns we can squeeze into a run report! Sorry in advance...

All in the nick of time...

Tonight we were helping out Bromley Borough Food Bank. They have a unit in the Glades for people to donate. It was looking a little shabby so our job was to add a lick of paint to freshen it up.

Nicksand

We divided up the initial tasks of sanding, taping and laying down bin bags to protect the floor in preparation for the paint.

Another nick in the wall

There were plenty of little sticky bits on the wall and some paint coming off in places but it was all looking much cleaner before...

Nick 'n' mix

Paint mixing time! We were each equipped with brushes and rollers and got to work high and low.

Another Nick of paint

We might need to go back to add another layer but it definitely looked way better when we left.

Nice work team!

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