6 Goodgymers from the Luton team supported Foodcycle this evening, covering lots of different tasks including, food collection, kitchen team, pot washer and hosts. Despite the food donations being very minimal this week, the team were able to provide a 3 course meal for 36 guests making the most of the limited veg, fruit and bread, with a few store cupboard staples. Carrot soup was followed by a vegetable pasta dish, with garlic bread and a fruit salad with cake for dessert. Lots of plates came back clean, so we're confident the meal was enjoyed and appreciated. Great work everyone. 👏 👍🏻 👌 💪 🙌

We teamed up with Friends of Leagrave Park for our monthly litter pick. Thank you to Pastor Charmaine, Martin, Dave and Omar, plus other members of the community, we managed to make the park that bit prettier. Amongst the haul was a particular tortoise, a ‘message’ in a bottle and the famous drum kit.

Let’s hope that the tortoise is still breathing, wherever he may be.

This week's group run took us to the Capability Green business park where the task was to deliver flyers to all the businesses inviting them to use their corporate volunteering time to help the Keep Luton Tidy campaign on an upcoming litter picking day.

Splitting into two groups we whizzed around the park pretty quick which left plenty of time for some hill reps before we returned to our start point.

Despite the rain, people still came out to enjoy singing, a chit-chat, dancing, children’s activities and some freshly made sandwiches. Thanks to Pastor Charmaine, Abim, Neil and Susannah, plus church members, everyone had fun. So much fun in fact, that Susannah only got a photo of Henry the hoover.

Crispy salad and crunchy bread started off the meal this evening. Guests then enjoyed an egg curry with naan. Then they applesolutely enjoyed the crumble with custard. Darshini, Lucie and Sam took charge in the kitchen, making sure everything was prepared properly. None of this could have happened if it wasn’t for Gill who collected the food today. Neill, Omar and I hosted. There were flowers on every table.

This evening we served 46 guests plus takeaways . It was great team work and effort from everyone as always- food collection team, cooking team, hosting team , host and helpers , pot washer 🧼, team/project leaders ❤️

Thank you everyone for making people the guests such a fabulous meal. 😊

On today’s menu was:

Starter Tomato 🍅 salad and bread 🥖 Main Egg curry 🍛 and naan Dessert Apple 🍎 crumble and custard.

Thank you everyone!

The more the merrier! Singing cafe is growing bigger in size and goodgymers volunteers also increasing in numbers