Five of GGR's finest arrived to help out at Frenford Foodbank.

Linda and Ed arrived early to set up. They were soon joined by last minute and very welcomed sign up Kathryn who helpfully brought along her Mum to assist us. We also welcomed back our Helena who can't always get to food bank but is always a valuable member of the team when she does. Last but not least AJ came to celebrate her 200th good deed with us. In keeping with tradition (which began with her 100th) she started with a spillage 🙄😂.

Along with the Frenford volunteers we all worked alongside each other helping one another out and getting the job done by lunchtime so 50 local households will be a little better off for it. We even had time to have a little tea break with the usual party guest Colin🐛.

AJ and Emily arrived at the church and met the food bank volunteers who explained the jobs that needed doing and a bit about the service that is provided. Emily initially got stuck into carrying through the chairs from the church room to the reception area where people would be coming in to have a cup of tea and wait for their selection of food that would be brought to them. We set up lots of small tables with little table clothes and two or three chairs set around them in a cafe style so it would be welcoming and relaxing for people to spend some time there. Then the main job was setting up the back room where the donated food was being delivered to and unpacked. First we had to bring big tables through and set these up, and then we could arrange the food on them. The system was that there would be pickers with a list so that they could come and put together a bag of food and bring it out to the people it is for. AJ has helped in many food banks in the past so had a brilliant suggestion of turning the tins on their side with the labels up so that the pickers can easily see what they are grabbing, plus you could fit more in the crate that way. Another job was cutting some of the bigger loaves of bread that had been donated by Gail's into halves so that they could be distributed to more people. We donned our blue gloves and got to work - Emily cutting and AJ bagging them up individually. After this room was all set up and the empty crates stacked up ready to be taken away, we had finished the task. All the food bank volunteers made us feel very welcome and we left them well prepared.

3 arrived by bike and one got the train to our starting point. We all took a gentle walk over to the corner house, and waiting for the task owner to show up, she happened to be a bit late. 2 stayed behind to admire the flowers and get a plan together, while the other 2 went off and fetched the ladder from the task owner's house. Once arrived back at corner house, we were set the task of mounting trellis to a wall with the plan of attaching trellis to some bricks and chucking them over the wall, and hoping gravity will keep it in place. Plan in place, Peter went up the ladder moved some thorns out of the way and got the trellis up. There was some repeated attempts of getting the bricks/counterweights over the wall, but eventually we done the task at hand. We walked back to task owner's house with the ladder and then went on a small walk back to our starting point. One person did unfortunately leave their personal items behind, but luckily managed to retrieve them, and with that we said ta ra.