4 GoodGymers have supported Petrock's Place with 2 tasks.
Saturday 23rd October 2021
Written by Exeter runner
Today 2 runners returned to St Petrock's shop and homelessness hub in the city centre to help Lucy who was looking after the shop on her own, and needed some sorting doing upstairs.
Our job was to sort through about 20 bags of donated clothes and sift out the good quality ones with a vintage theme to be cleaned and then sold in the shop.
Given neither of us have much of an eye for vintage (sorry Pete!) this was not as easy as it sounds! Our best find was a huge bag full of beautifully knitted blankets.
It was lovely to return the shop and if anyone is interested the project do keep an eye on our missions and group runs as we will I'm sure be helping out again there soon.
Thursday 14th October 2021
Written by Exeter runner
3 goodgymmers helped out on a fab project this afternoon.
St Petrock's homeless charity in Exeter is opening a pop-up re-use, training and education hub/charity shop this week and we helped them get it ready for opening day.
The new hub will provide volunteering and training opportunities for their existing clients and education for the community around homelessness.
While Florence and Craig emptied a huge tub full of soil and moved it to the back of the building, Rachel spray painted display units. We then went inside to paint doors and skirting, polish handles, frame photographs and more.
It was great to be help out today and we hope their new venture goes really well!