This session at Foodcycle Mitcham saw a higher-than-usual turnout, with approximately 30 guests in attendance. Despite receiving a limited delivery of fruit and vegetables, the team adapted quickly and efficiently. Our chefs prepared a hearty vegetable and rice curry, which was well received, and served cake for dessert.

A particularly heartwarming moment was when one guest brought along her emotional support puppies, which brought smiles and comfort to many of the guests and volunteers.

Overall, it was a successful and uplifting session that demonstrated flexibility, teamwork, and community spirit.

Afyer a healthy delivery of supplies, our kitchen team made caramelised onion and goats cheese flatbread, Stir fry veg noodles, passionfruit and strawberry cheesecake. 26 guests were served and had great feedback on the meal! Shout out to our first time volunteers who did an amazing job cooking and hosting.

We had a shorter session than usual due to not having a cooking team and limited food delivery. We did a bit of a tidy up, onboarded 1st time volunteers, did a walkround of the site and packed bags with potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes and oat milk for guests who dropped by. Major thanks to Hannah, a first time goodgymer who joined us on this session.

Zaeem is a regular at this task but we hope to be making it a GoodGym Merton session from now on. Today we had a good size delivery of veg and fruits, our cooking team made pizza for starters, rice and veg curry for the main and apple crumble as pudding. We had 29 guests altogether and 9 volunteers who ensured the meal went well. The volunteers set tables, served food, did the dishes and cleaned up the hall at the end of the session. Our guests were very satisfied with their meal. Given the large delivery of fruit, we managed to give out bags of apples, mandarine and bananas for guests to take home.