They were low on volunteers this week so appreciated two newbies to this task. Asma was keen to join the GoodGym after hearing me race on how great it is, and this session was near work that only required an hour away from the office. Looks can be deceiving...we started of moving the tables from the church hall to the front and I felt like She- Ra (80s character for those too young to remember ;) they were so light I'm sure I could have spun them on my pinkie finger and flung them across! Rest assured I wasn't brave to attempt that but cool to imagine it. Then the chairs were set up and next onto moving the boxes of goods into the side room. The City Harvest van arrived and this is where Asma learnt something she never thought of before, how to manoeuvre the trolley without dropping the pallets, but mastered it she did. After watching the trial and error, I decided it was easier for me to carry in the pallets. The donation of Gail's bread required slicing in half and bagging up yummy looking pastries. We left when the hot meals were being delivered as the other volunteers for the Foodbank were around.

Great to always return to the food bank with a lovely energetic team and run stock in and out to customers

Becca and Jo helped set up the foodbank this morning. Existing canned food from last week was brought out of the storage cupboard, laid out in the shopping list order and newer stock was added in. All done in time for the foodbank to open at 10am!

A pleasure to be part of the great team at St. Simon’s; marshalling supplies, organising food, helping people with essentials and general advice.

It went good , efficient and well put together. Nothing more or less than it was supposed to be.

The bi-weekly food bank at St Matthew's Church needed help setting up tables, chairs, and laying out the items donated in the 'shopping list' order, making sure older items are used up first. Who doesn't love some grocery rotation!

Lawrence, Alex and Jo are now pros at the set up having been last week (Alex's first ever mission!) and Christina in only her second GoodGym mission got stuck in too providing an invaluable set of hands.

Sian, Tony and the team were so pleased with our help and after a swift 45 mins, the foodbank was ready to open and the Goodgymers headed out.