Two GoodGymers Marie-Noëlle & Petra hosted a community foodbank stall outside of Waitrose in Surbiton, to collect food & other essentials items for their local foodbank DLAG.

We suggest an items list, shoppers add a little extra in their shopping basket and dropped it with us on their way out. Donations includes tinned fish, pulses, sauces, rice, cereals, biscuits, etc. GoodGymer Emily popped by to dropped some donations.

We had a great morning despite the freezing temperature, and thanks to the many generous donors, we collected a total of 9 boxes of food. This will make all the difference for these struggling lives!

Assisted by storm Darragh the morning GoodGym team were blown to Surbiton High for a very important mission to sort and pack presents for 1,800 children and young people who are under the care of a social worker.

Claire, Julie and Jemma started off by sorting out the books into age categories whilst Mel, Petra, Hannah and Natasha sorted out the toys.

When the van arrived it was all hands on deck to get more bags and boxes of gifts into the hall to be sorted.

Present sorted in to age categories we were joined by Frank and given our instructions on how to go ‘shopping’!

And off we went on a shopping frenzy labelling up the bags, finding presents from play-dough to Lynx deodorant to Ronald Dahl classics plus some winter warmers.

After plenty of shopping the pizza arrived and it was time for a well earned break and to hand over to the afternoon team.

A huge welcome to Hannah, Natasha and Frank on their first mission and we hope to see you again soon.