Rags or Riches
10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Monday 26th January
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Report written by Ian Gostling
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Tonight 11 GoodGymer's ran 2km to Oxfam Magdalen Street store.
High 5's to Francesca who attended her first session!
It was our first visit to this store for 6 years, and store manager Ross still remembered our last visit!
The tasks was going through a large backlog of clothes donations, sorting out the resell-able quality items from the rags (cheap, worn or smelly!).
'Rag' bags are collected and recycled, and the 'keep' items are then priced up and taken to the shop floor below.
Amoungst my favourites was a vintage looking Welsh rugby shirt. Alina had her eye on a few nice items which she was able to purchase!
After 1 hour many many bags had been emptied, sorted and redistributed. Well done team. It was a great evening and we hope to return in the future!
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Working together to help end poverty
Oxfam on Magdalen Street sorts kind donations from the public and sells them in our large charity shop! We take everything: books, clothes, homewares, music, DVDs, accessories and much more! All of the money raised goes to Oxfam to help them in their crucial work in ending poverty and injustice. Our shop is closing down for 3 weeks from 28th July for essential maintenance work to be carried out. This will involve taking absolutely EVERYTHING off of the huge shop floor (stock and shelves!) and taking it into storage in the backrooms of the shop. We rely entirely on volunteers and we anticipate this being a huge job, so any help that we can get on either Saturday 28th July or Sunday 29th July from GoodGym will be much appreciated!!! Everything has to be cleared by the end of Sunday 29th to allow builders access from first thing Monday 30th July!
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