Grape turnip today!

On a sunny and hotdog afternoon, 6 GGers declined BBQ parties, picnics in the park, a day on the beach (you get gist) to attend our first Sunday mission at the Food Bank Aid Hub. Kuddos to ALL of you who volunteered none stop between 12 and 3pm.

We did meat at the hub and kicked off with a round of intros and some must H&S house keeping . We had two missions; to get 3 deliveries ready for collection tomorrow and to sort out the incoming food deliveries from the likes of Sainsburys, Waitrose and Morrisons.

Like a well rehearsed ballet company, one by one our volunteers started crackering on with the task at hand. Dancing up and down the Hub aisles with the occasional plié when lifting up boxes to maintain a correct back posture. Pirouttes to prevent near volunteer-to-volunteer crashes and pearfect first arabasques to reach out for the higher food items. They meticulously oranged fruits, vegetables and other provisions, transforming the hub into a veritable feastival of organisation. BRAVO, what an outstanding performance from Rupesh, Antonio, Francesco, Laura, Philip and Cloud

*The shout out corner: *

• Rupesh has worked as a model before and kept it quiet until Antonio took a picture of him in action. You don't need to have met Rupesh to spot him on the pictures below....it's that obvious!
• Philip for completing his first ever mission with GG today! Double drum roll as Barnet is not even his "home ground" borough!
• Laura for completing her second ever mission, first one being yesterday! That's a strong start and we hope you beet it up!
• Francesco for crossing the Harringey border and promising (or so we have heard) that he will be back again!
• Antonio for the amazing pictures and contribution to this report!
• To Lodo; the 7th volunteer, part of Food Bank Aid, who had no other option but to blend and bond with us. She did such a fantastic job that by the end of it we thought she was a GGer!! Maybe she will read this report and join us? We hope so!

The community spirit today was fantastic, we communicated effectively, we supported each other and together we got everything that was asked of us done with a smile. We even had thyme for a well deserved 5 minutes T break halfway through!

Whilst it's bean a soul feeding task, lettuce remember that today's contribution will feed the belly of many local families in need. Kindness goes a long way.

Donut worry if you think you've missed out on the grapest Sunday mission....You can sign up for our July mission at the Hub!

As always, keep the grape work up and ....

Peas & Loaf