“Everything went smoothly and efficiently. The team worked together with great organisation, cooperation, and positive energy to complete the pack-down quickly. It was rewarding to contribute to keeping the foodbank running and supporting people in our local community.”

It was well organised and easy to get stuck in. Tasks were clear and everyone was friendly and welcoming. While it wasn’t a big emotional experience for me personally, it felt good to contribute and help things run smoothly for the morning session.

Great I had great time

All hands were on deck for this morning’s mission. We had an hour to lay out the whole food bank, including:

• Setting up the waiting area (tables and chairs)

• Laying all food and products out on tables

• Organising all boxes ready to restock if needed.

Three newbie goodgymmers (inc myself) nailed the task in half hour! There was a real team effort here between us and the food bank team, and we were pleasantly surprised by the offer of panettone at the end.

Mission: Accomplished

A productive power hour indeed as I joined the team at St Simon's Church in Shepherd's Bush to help set up their foodbank. The time flew by as I put up tables, moved and unpacked crates and sorted items before finally marking up a whiteboard with information on today's product availability.

3 goodgymers made their way to the church to find customers outside more or less arguing who was 1st in the line. We did try to calm them down and we did say that the Foodbank was no yet open as too early. They all went back in line. First goodgym session for Serene found Goodgym when looking for local community missions. Welcome to Goodgym. Task was the usual of putting out the large tables, smaller ones with chairs and taking out the boxes from the storage room until the van arrived. Once the van arrived both Jonathan and Steph Ducattrollied the crates from the van into the church. We were not trollied 🤣. Serene was in the meantime helping out with sorting some of the pastries into smaller bags.