Saturday 4th June 2022
Report written by Sam Lefevre (he/him)
After setting up the gazebos, Zack spotted Sam in the distance and introduced himself. It was Zack's first ever good deed! Welcome newbie! He signed up to help collect food donations from the local businesses, but as you will see in the following run reports....he stayed all day and collected 5 good deeds! Wow! Almost a record in GoodGym (as of writing this, 8 is the record), but he must take the record for most good deeds for a newbie....which I don't think we be beaten for quite some time!
Back to the task, Kelly, who was our lead coordinator gave us a list of 2-3 restaurants or bars in the Camberwell area to collect various food donations using a Morrison's trolley. We went to places like Irene's to collect many baked goods as well as Nando's to collect dessert and sauces, but our favourite has to be our journey to Falafel and Shawarma to collect 40 falafels and two trays of spiced potatoes and then heading to the Portuguese cafe to collect a box of egg custard tarts! Yum!
Unfortunately, not all the restaurants had prepared in advance / forgotten, but still there was plenty of food and the CAF organisers had prepared salads too.
We are a volunteer led organisation that organises an 8 day Festival of arts activities throughout Camberwell. The launch day on Saturday 4 June has a huge amount of free activities for all the family, and a very small number of volunteers to do all of the tasks. The most pressing request for volunteers are: setting up (8.30 - 9am) and taking down (5.30 - 6pm) of 4 gazebos (6m x 3m) requires 6 able bodied adults. Also helping to hang out bunting and other decorations around Camberwell Green. Also setting up and taking down trestle tables at beginning and end of the day. The BIG FEAST free street party is targetting families of all Camberwell and reaching those in food poverty via food banks. We need volunteers to collect food donations (all arranged in advance) from local businesses and deliver them to Camberwell Green (between 8 - 10am). Also volunteers to help serve out food to those participating in the street party, and to help with a continuous regime of cleaning tables, bagging up rubbish, and ensuring a pleasant feast environment while allowing a continuous turnover of guests. We have other volunteer roles that can be seen https://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/caf-22-volunteering which are of specific skill/interest scope and may extend longer than the launch date of Saturday 4 June.
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