This was GGs third visit to the Frenford Food Bank this week.

Lack of sign ups meant a shout went out to the group chat and thankfully, some members had been available during the day for a separate session and James was able to attend this one after work. His arrival coupled with some unsuspecting Frenford parents (diverted by the task owner to "volunteer" ) brought fresh energy to the session leaving Linda free to deal with the drivers and stock up on short items.

James and Linda stayed on to make sure the advent calendars were allocated to the families with children.

As always the job gets done with profound thanks being passed on from the task owner.

Not sure how or why but we went from 5 GoodGym volunteers for the evening session at Frenford Foodbank to 1 😳. A little shout out for help revealed a couple of members (retired and but not keen on going out at night) were available during the day so an extra daytime session was born. Along with them and another non-member we managed to get most of the supermarket delivery shelved up and 20 packages parceled ahead of time. This eased up the pressure on the evening session. The task owner has thanks us for our efforts. Never underestimate Grey Power 💪🏻.

The little problem of the supermarket cancelling Frenford FoodBank’s order didn’t stop us doing good things today.

While the task owner shot off to sort it out we off-loaded the Scouts donations, un-bagged a couple of non-collections, tidied up the odds and ends shelf and re-stacked biscuit mountain before it avalanched.

We couldn’t help but dance along to catchy music coming from the dance studio definitely ‘doing good while keeping fit’ going on at this session.

Whilst waiting for the task owner to report back we had a cheeky little break with a chatty catch-up, cup of tea and usual stale biscuit in honour of our AJ’s Birthday today.

Sadly it wasn't possible to get the supermarket delivery in before the end of the session but we still got quite a bit done.

What a lovely productive session that was.😊 Often there are just two of us on this regular task but luckily the stars were aligned and 5 of us were available for this midweek session. Not only did we get three cage loads of donations off loaded there was time to spare for extra shelf organising and filling plus a little stock taking in readiness for the next packing session. There was a slight "snackident" with some chocolates of an uncertain but as it turned out quite edible age and a little incident with some leaky Bovril 😬 but apart from that everything went very smoothly and efficiently. Well Done Everyone 🥳

Packing food in bags for collection and delivery, offloading the crate and stocking the shelves. We ran out of some food Helping to keep fit and exercise through helping and interacting with other volunteers met some volunteers today it was busy today but relaxing at the same time. I enjoyed some cake . The leaders made it welcoming for all and asked me to bring my sis in law again !!! Some food parcels were collected.

No supermarket delivery but two cages full of donations and some uncollected packages to be resshelved. Linda and Helen had arrived early so got stuck into sorting one of the cages, AJ came in and took on the collections and Sabinah arrived with her own assistant (actually her Sister-In-Law and hopefully future GG member) so they took charge of the other cage.

Everything date checked and put away there was still a little time left for a bit of brief tidying and decanting tea bags into smaller bags for distribution next week. Nice teamwork everyone 😊