What a lovely lot of volunteers we had signed up today. Welcome to our newest member Victoria (likes to be known as Tors) and to Sevan a more seasoned GoodGymmer who came all the way from Ealing to add Redbridge to his list of GG boroughs visited. Frenford Foodbank had been let down on deliveries with some supplies arriving late and others not turning up at all. Linda and Ed decided to forgo the task of having everything set up early to go in search of rice, 5 Supermarkets later they'd managed to "score" 84kgs and arrived 5 minutes late 🙈 to find other volunteers ready and waiting.

There was then a flurry of activity where things were put on shelves, cages shifted about, admin sorted and bagging station set up. We had the briefest instruction session and we were off finally doing the picking and packing we set out to do. As this was the last session before Easter chocolate eggs and other treats were added for families with children.

Despite the time used for other tasks before the packing we still managed to get 35 of the 57 packages done before most people needed to leave. Luckily a couple were able to stay on and finish the rest.

Good Job Everyone 🥳🤩

We certainly were on a roll at Frenford Food Bank this week. With one of the Supermarket deliveries not showing up and having a good number of volunteers we had finished the advertised task mega early 🥳.

The rest of time allocated was well used getting ahead of the game. Peter portioned up the tea bags, Helena and Michael regrouped the toilet rolls, Linda cut boards to use as crate lids, Ed sorted and dated the biscuits and AJ had a cup of tea...😂...thats not fair she actually made her self very useful reoganising shelves 😁.

A lot of worthwhile jobs done and we still finished a bit early. Nice work GGR.

It was a game of three parts at Frenford Foodbank today. We started off clearing out the store room so we could give it a much overdue spring clean. Ed moved on to counting up how much we had on the shelves so the task owner can put a supermarket order in. Helena got stuck in to putting the donations on the shelves.

Sending out a big welcome to Vicky who completed her first GGR mission today 🥳 Helena wasted no time in showing her the ropes and they both did a fabulous job.

Meanwhile Peter and Linda embarked on the task of bleaching down the shelves in the storeroom with the help of some soggy cloths and a temperamental pressure washer. It definitely looked and smelled a lot better out there by the time we were done.

Three good jobs done in one session. 🥳🥳🥳

There really was a magnificent turn out at Frenford Food Bank today. Helena and Frenford volunteer Jan got started on sorting out our large stock of tea bags into date order. Peter got stuck into filling a mouse sized hole under the store room door, Michael's first job was refilling the pasta sauce shelves, Jason was helping Ed deal with the fruit shelf and Marie got on with organising the donations.

Everyone worked so well, by the time Linda had given the last person a task the first person was back asking "whats next?" they all only needed to be told once and did a fabulous job. Pretty soon the door was fixed stock sorted into date order and 2 cages of donations off loaded and shelved up.

Good Job GG Gang 😍

How lovely that so many GGR members were available for a midweek morning session at Frenford Food Bank. With Kathryn, Peter, Jenny and Julia taking a break from their usual jobs and regulars Ed, Linda and AJ, seven of us got stuck into the packing lists for 57 food parcels to help local families. Then the phone kept ringing with local helpers offering to come along and it ended up with 14 of us. We were getting on so well we even had time for a little break midway for a cup of tea and a treat in honour of our Eds birthday today. Rested and refreshed we ploughed on finishing the job in good time for lunch. 🥳🥳🥳

Two fold GGR celebtations at Frenford Food Bank today. Our hardworking regular Ed qualified for his 100 Tshirt and our founder member Peter had done just over 800 tasks, no T-shirt for that one but definitely an achievement worth noting. The traditional GGR banner was suitably amended, sadly Colin the 🐛 was unavailable but with the usual GGR innovation a self assembly version was acquired and Gary the Grub was born 😁

With four of us off loading the supermarket delivery with help from 2 Friends of Frenford we soon moved on to switching the easter eggs storage round with the pasta, date checking the biscuits and re-stocking packages that had not been collected. After a quick tidy up we were ready for a slice of Gary

It seems that Linda and Bernadette missed the photographer's lens this week. So we've included a couple of old ones so you don't miss our drop dead gorgeous looks 😊