Baby Bank regular volunteers Carol, Caroline, Karen and Sheila put in another busy shift. As ever, there was a huge pile on donations to be sorted and checked, double-checked and put away. Some clothes went out straight away to a family in need

It was all hands on deck today at the Baby Bank. With a huge amount of clothing donations to sort through, Sheila was on 1st checks, Carol on 2nd checks and Caroline on Shoes and Adult clothing. With more donations coming in all the time, we tried our best to keep up. We found that many donations were unsuitable due to clothing being stained, ripped or too bobbly. These all found their way into black bags, which were added to the existing mountain due to be recycled any day soon.....

It was a busy morning at the Baby Bank, and with a corporate team in from Centrica, Sheila and Carol were kept busy with doing the second checks on clothes and storing them away in the appropriate boxes. Caroline was asked to do checks on the men's and women's clothes donations, followed up by shoes. Meanwhile after a brief spell answering the door, Karen had the fun task of distributing the Christmas clothing amassed throughout the year into the boxes ready to give out to families. Yes folks, Christmas is coming!

Caroline and Sheila helped out at the Baby Bank on a day when the facility was quite short of volunteers. Caroline was having to dig deep into the piles of clothes donations to find the sizes we are short of, while Sheila was doing secondary checking and topping up the boxes ready for referrals. Some urgent referrals came in during the morning and it brought it home to us how vital it is that clothes are fully checked and sorted into the right boxes to be ready when they are needed

Karen visited the Baby Bank to help sort donated clothing so it can be given to families in need. They had so many bags to sort through that they have had to temporarily stop all clothing donations. Karen and the other volunteers worked on finding and first checking the most needed items from the huge piles of bags. The piles definitely reduced during the morning but it is always an uphill task, but enjoyable. .

The Baby Bank were very short of volunteers today, so Sheila and only two other volunteers were in charge of the clothes checking and sorting. We left the boxes stocked up ready for preparing referrals but the donations were coming in far quicker than we could sort, so plenty to do next week!