Rubble Trouble
11 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ipswich
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Saturday 11th January 2020
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We had an excellent turnout for a rare Ipswich Community Mission - 11 Goodgymers arriving at the new FIND Food Bank premises to help clear borders of rubble, stones, rubbish and overgrown weeds.
It was great to see so many people contributing to the January task total, including Bethan who was making her Goodgym debut! - hope to see you again soon.
It was quite a demanding task with the car park borders fairly overgrown but also full of stones and a variety of rubblish items. We filled numerous bags of heavy rubble as well as cutting back some wildly overgrown bushes before pulling out grass and weeds and lots of loose leaves. The aim being to clear as much as possible for the borders to covered in top soil and planted with trees.
On a task like this it can be hard to see the progress being made but the piles of bags and branches grew and grew.
Eventually we called it day and enjoyed a warming drink in side the food bank building.
Great work everyone!
Monday's Group Run info and task on behalf of BHF is now available to sign up HERE
We have a January "Starter Session" next Saturday straight after the Ipswich parkrun running to Ranelagh Primary School - see more info and sign up HERE
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For nearly 30 years, Families in Need (FIND) Ipswich has offered a lifeline to people in Ipswich and the surrounding areas who are experiencing poverty and despair. food bank address - 5 Braziers Wood Road Ipswich IP3 0SP We provide free food parcels and personal care items to help people get through a crisis, as well as furniture, bedding and other household items where the person or family has none. An army of over 70 volunteers regularly give their time freely to check and sort the donated food, collect items from local stores, make up the food parcels and deliver them. It’s a six-day a week operation.
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