2 GoodGymers kicked off a very productive Monday morning at Borough Food Co-op, helping keep things running smoothly behind the scenes.

The session kicked off with a very satisfying freezer task: wiping down and neatly stacking around 100 frozen boxes of aubergine tagine with vermicelli rice, making sure everything was clean, organised and easy to grab for future distribution. That was followed by unloading and storing roughly 30 egg cartons and a batch of milk bottles, plus sorting various blocks of butter.

Anna left no time to waste before getting stuck into the potato workout – unloading heavy sacks, quality checking them, and crate‑mixing the spuds into a neat, eye‑catching display! After that, Chandrima stored away various lentils (red and brown), plus pinto beans and chickpeas to keep the dry goods area looking calm rather than chaotic.

To round things off, cardboard boxes were flattened for recycling, and a stack of veg crates got a deep clean so they were fresh, hygienic and all set for other volunteers to use for future crate‑mixing sessions.

We managed to remove one bed to make way for teh new recovery bed, but the old bed was impossible to get round a corner into the hallway for collection. Fortunately the new bed will be delivered and Mrs E will be able to leave hospital and return home. Hopefully St Christopher's will be able to remove the old bed.

Today, Goodgymers, Anna, Brenda and Susan joined Vauxhall food Cooperative volunteers in refilling, sorting, packing and stacking food donations in preparation for tomorrows shop. It was certainly a race against time due to the delivery being delayed.