We usually provide a school holiday lunch club and activities during the school holidays for disadvantaged families, since Covid we've been offering food hampers. St Luke's Church Most of the time the families come and collect the food, which most prefer as they get to choose their food. We've been offering more and more food, for which some families have struggled to carry over to their cars or to walk back to their home (less than 10-15min walk). We don't have a large team of volunteers so can't help everyone with the carrying.
14 GoodGymers have supported St Luke's Lunch Project with 8 tasks.
Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Written by Bristol runner
Two Bristol Good Gym'ers flexed their muscles to move a community food provider's stock from a room that was in danger of damp. The weather threatened rain but stayed dry while we hefted, heaved, and trollied boxes of nutritious food. With help from others, we got the job done quickly enough to allow time for some rearranging of toys and clothes for the users of the venue.
Monday 19th July 2021
Written by Alice Whale
Three goodgymers kept cool in the crypt, sorting mountains of food donations (and endless crates of tinned beef stew) into a mini supermarket style food bank at St Luke's Church to help support families struggling with food poverty through the school summer holidays.
Tuesday 6th April 2021
Written by Jenny Chak
Blessed with a bonus bank holiday, Lisa and I set to work sorting out the Easter hampers for the lunch club at St Luke’s with the other lovely volunteers.
After 2 hours of checking, repacking, stacking and restacking we had made up 45 (plus some spares for good luck) hampers just in time for the delivery of fresh goodies from Fareshare. After a slight trolley mishap (no hot cross buns were harmed) we left for the next shift of volunteers to prepare for the families arrival.
Wednesday 24th March 2021
Written by Jayde Perkin
Bish bash bosh - GoodGymmers spent several hours loading up pallets at FareShare warehouse yesterday
Today myself & the FareShare crew unpacked one of said pallets, and unloaded the goodies out of the FareShare van and into St. Luke's in 25 mins flat.
Ready to be distributed to those who need it!
Job well done
Monday 1st March 2021
Written by Nathalie Levi
We were back at St Luke’s Crypt food bank in the morning to help offload 100 (heavy!) pre-prepared food parcel donation boxes. Emily got busy tailoring them for Halal, vege and dietary requirement families and setting the boxes out for the collections later in the day. Meanwhile, Nathalie cleared a cluttered store room, building a beautiful cardboard box wall. Look at it. It’s gorgeous.
We were then able to move the football goal posts out of the food storeroom creating loads more space for the food parcels to be kept.
A winning morning all round!
Monday 15th February 2021
Written by Alice Dalrymple
Emily and I had a busy morning at St Luke's lunch project, making up and packing boxes for 44 families. Once all the boxes were made up we then had the task of identifying which boxes needed craft packs and extra fresh vegetables. The time zoomed by and we finished just in the nick of time (and got a proper workout in the process).
We managed to squeeze in some extra good after we left by delivering a box to a family who weren't able to come down to the church. It was a great morning and we both felt like we really made a positive impact. Good stuff :-)
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