One of GoodGym Kingston's more frequent and favourite task venues this evening... back to help at Growbaby.

Growbaby are an amazing charity that provides good quality, new and second-hand, baby clothes and equipment completely free of charge to anyone who needs it regardless of their income, background, or faith.

Tonight we had a few jobs to tick off the list... - Claire & Marcos and Dave got busy sorting out the multiple mattresses and cots that needed to be matched up and labelled. - Luke and Amreet sorted out the huge toy library, neatening up all the board games and disposing of any broken toys and random parts - Anna sorted out some of the clothes donations, pairing shoes and ensuring they were stored in the right age group - Raquel organised the bookcase and made room for the multiple new book donations - Dave checked the sell-by-dates and stacked baby powders and other food items - Rachel kept us all in check!

Safe to say we completed a load of tasks within the hour and left Growbaby in a much more organised state than when we found it!

Free vouchers for period products came through the door and after asking my neighbours to donate unwanted vouchers we had a small bundle. Ellie and Rachel popped into Sainsburys to pick up the products and they will be dropped off to Growbaby on the next visit.

Charlotte and Rachel went to Growbaby and helped sort the nappies, toys and clothes into good order so families can collect with ease.

Rachel and Charlotte had a great volunteering day at Growbaby helping to unpack the mountains of donations that have started to come in now that the Hub is open again. Clothes, coats, toys and baby equipment were safely stowed away so that mums and dads could pop in and take what they needed. We'll be back!

Assisted by storm Darragh the morning GoodGym team were blown to Surbiton High for a very important mission to sort and pack presents for 1,800 children and young people who are under the care of a social worker.

Claire, Julie and Jemma started off by sorting out the books into age categories whilst Mel, Petra, Hannah and Natasha sorted out the toys.

When the van arrived it was all hands on deck to get more bags and boxes of gifts into the hall to be sorted.

Present sorted in to age categories we were joined by Frank and given our instructions on how to go ‘shopping’!

And off we went on a shopping frenzy labelling up the bags, finding presents from play-dough to Lynx deodorant to Ronald Dahl classics plus some winter warmers.

After plenty of shopping the pizza arrived and it was time for a well earned break and to hand over to the afternoon team.

A huge welcome to Hannah, Natasha and Frank on their first mission and we hope to see you again soon.

We had a good workout this morning! We twice loaded the Growbaby van full of toys (and Petra's mini!) so it could be taken to the Growbaby present sorting day for kids that need additional support. We lugged boxes down the stairs and even used a dolly to move bigger boxes to the van.

A great way to start the morning and lovely to meet you, Jacky on your first task! Will see you in the afternoon for the main present sorting event.