Beth, Cookie, Tom and Louisa met White City Hub Manager, Saba, to help move some local donations and with a 'blitz' of their stockroom. The Hub @75 is a Community Organisation supporting local residents with emergency food parcels, welfare advice and more! It is also home of the White City branch of Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbank.

Cookie and Tom began by helping Saba, with moving lots of donations and boxes from a local church down to the Hub@75 while Beth and Louisa began the stockroom 'blitz'.

Beth and Louisa started off by tidying up the huge shopping bag pile, they were taught the 'samosa' folding technique and attempted to replicate this on the hundreds of plastic bags...some were more successful than others! Once all the bags had been neatly folded and placed in the crates they moved on to sorting the cereals and soup tins.

Louisa with her superior height passed down the cereal boxes to Beth who checked the best before and expiry dates on each box. Those that were passed their best before or expiry date were placed in one pile on the floor while those with a 2021 date were placed in another. Once the cereals had been checked they moved onto the soup tins, Beth took the vegetable soups while Louisa sorted the meat soups. As there were so many tins they found it easier to remove the tins from the shelf and check the best before and expiry dates on the floor. To ensure efficient stock rotation with minimal wastage both the cereal boxes and tins with the longest best before or expiry dates were placed to the back of the shelves.

After 90 minutes of tidying and sorting we called it a day and said our goodbyes to Saba. We look forward to helping out again next month!

It was quick one at The Hub today and a perfect way to spend a lunchtime. Cookie led the force with his prompt arrival and blitzed his way through sorting the clothes donated to help support families with limited access to clothing and funds in the local area. There were a vast array of boxes containing a mixture of clothing of all shapes and sizes. Cookie managed to sort through them all (!!!!), carefully checking their condition and then folding them ready to be chosen and worn by their new owners. Beth and Amy arrived a little later (sorry Cookie) and helped finish off sorting and folding the baby clothing box. Once finished, Cookie was waved off and Amy and Beth stayed a little while longer to sort through the tins and other dried goods donated to the White City branch of Hammersmith and Fulham food bank. Anything with the date 2021 was bought to the front or thrown away (depending on the expiry date) so to make sure as little food is wasted as possible. Although a quick one, the task was fab and we managed to get loads done! We'll be back again soon no doubt, but until then the clothes and food remain organised and ready to help those in need.

We welcomed Ismali and Mimi to some of their first ever missions for Goodgym: ensuring that the foodback could continue to support families in the near area with much needed supplies.

Sarah kindly helped sort materials in the front whilst Biscuits, Cookie, Analiese, Ismali and Mimi made a damm good go of sorting the cans in the back by date.

Much excitement was drawn by the chopped mushrooms which wouldn't expire until 2025, who knows what that will look like eh?