The day started with one dropped out (due to another engagement), two missing it (they overslept) and another (who wasn't even signed up) explaining why they couldn't make it.🤷‍♀️ Two of us marshaled and one ran at Valentines Park Run. Post Park Run we three GGR PR regulars, all from Hainault, decided to switch the social venue to our local...which turned out not to be open🤦‍♀️. In the end we had a mini social breakfast in a nice little local cafe 😋. We are adaptable and dont give up easy in GGR 😁

Due to a small miss communication problem, our newest googym member came to our HQ instead of at the baby bank location. At our HQ we had Linda, Peter, Jo, and James. We split into 2 groups, Linda and Peter ran to the baby bank and Jo and James walked over to there.

once we got there, we met Natalie, and the Task Owner and his two little helpers had quite a few bags of donation already out for us to get stuck into.

we managed to get done by 8pm and we all headed our separate ways and called it a good job

AJ attended at Denver’s We Don’t Waste and after a coffee and a chat with the staff (mostly about GG! 🙃) she was soon put to task unpacking up a huge box of peanut butter jars onto a palette. AJ also assisted regular representatives of various agencies / charities who come to collect items for distribution in their local communities. All went well.

4 Good Gymmers and 4 friends of Frenford joined forces to provide 49 local families with extra food supplies this week.

A massive welcome to our newest GGR member and Foodbank Helper Nav. It was Nav's first mission and with very little training she was picking and packing like an old hand.

Linda was having a clumsy day and had to jump out of the way of low flying tins of tomatoes and Peter nearly got hit by a Milk carton that shot through a bag which didn't have a bottom in it 😬 Maybe a need for GG toe protector image wear 😂 Ed as always kept calm and carried on throughout.

The rest of the session went very smoothly and we even had time for a little tidy up before making our weary way home.

First timer, AJ joined a large group of volunteers to re-stock a variety dry goods and drinks at the daily-run Metro Caring FB in Denver. AJ was paired up with Cara (from Seattle) who was part of a fact finding team of volunteers who had come from all over the USA to observe the great work done at Metro Caring.

AJ attended at the famous Red Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado to volunteer at a 5k on behalf of the American Lung 🫁 Association. It was a pre-dawn and rather chilly start at the registration / bib pick up desk but once the sun appeared things warmed up quickly. The event was very well organised and had about 1500 participants.