making child's play of sorting donations

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
Frances Collier-Wright
John Shirley
Ian Goodhew
Paul Fawcett
Emma Warren
Rebecca Loades
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Lambeth

Wednesday 10th February 2021

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Back to the basement we went with GROAD, this time to sort donations for children. We had 4 categories to start off with - boys, girls, soft toys and games - and quickly got to work tackling bags of mixed donations and sorting them into categorised bags. This soon became 5 categories when we added gender neutral toys, 6 when we separated books and 7 when we realised how many items there were for new parents. We were pretty swift at sorting, until Andrea pointed out that there were far too many bags and we needed to be more discerning about what was trash to be discarded, and what was a game rather than a toy. So we picked through the bags and soon had everything fitting much more neatly.  Then it was just a matter of loading up the van and tidying up, and we were done for another session.


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John Shirley

Thu 11th Feb 2021 at 9:50am

Thanks Frances

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