Canny lot of Haggis

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Newcastle
Aimee
Florence Barbour
Max Bawden
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Newcastle

Wednesday 27th January 2021

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We were back at the food bank again for another bonus Wednesday mission, helping unpacking boxes and pack delivery driver’s cars.

Me and Flo were mostly on packing boxes of food donated by shops, putting them into crates and then stacking creates of the same food type into towers, to create a well organised stock room. Max was packing bags of food to go out and then taking them to the driver’s cars.

One of the more unusual things we were unpacking among boxes of tea, jars of coffee and tins of chopped tomatoes was many cans of haggis. We can only presume these were left over stock from burns night on Monday evening.

I forgot to take a group picture before Flo had to leave so instead there is a very rushed one of me and Max before I had to also leave to hurry back to work.

As always, a great way to take my break from work with some heavy lifting and helping people.


This task supported
East End Women
A project supporting women with skills and training, education, loneliness and domestic abuse recovery.

East End Women offers practical courses for women to build confidence and skills around DIY, sewing, pattern cutting and basic trades. We also deliver the Freedom Programme domestic abuse recovery course, helping women to better understand the roots of domestic abuse and build confidence to identify warning signs in the future. In addition to this, East End Women also offer social activities and drop-in sessions for women experiencing isolation to meet one another, make friends and build local networks.

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