A great community mission with friendly volunteers. We started the task by unloading a delivery and then got to work sorting and refilling food items for the community shop. Heart warming to see the diversity of food donated, and the hard work that goes in to make this community resource a success. Not only are they on a mission to reduce food waste, but also plastic waste. From refilling grain containers, to peeling back the spring onions to make them shop suitable - this task has a good amount of opportunities to get hands on, and make a difference.

Folarin and I turned up at Traid just as they were closing the doors after their winter sale.

While the last few customers paid up and left, the staff had already started clearing. There wasn't much left to do but we helped out with the final clothes packing, did a little sweeping and we were done.

An easy and enjoyable Tuesday task.

Today we went to Salvation Army in Nunhead to help out. After a 2k run Polis met us at the shop. After a quick tour of the old bookstore (which has had a glamorous new makeover) , Polis then introduced the task... smashing chairs!!

Polis showed us a huge mountain of chairs, which we had to move downstairs before dismantling with our legs and hammers. We quickly got organised. David, Daryl , James and Benjamin made a chain to pass the chairs down, to Nathan, Folarin, Sander and Mansur who got really good at dismantling chairs. Finally the helpful bee Nelly was clearing up and taking parts outside. Great teamwork! 🙌

As an added bonus, we were very excited to meet Nunhead Elvis, who was also helping out from Salvation Army.

Today we were also celebrating James' 50th good deed. Well done James! 🎂

A nice and quick session for GROAD.

We emptied out the new shed, where previous volunteers had sorted the clothes into categories, and moved the bags to the porch so that they’re ready to get picked up.