Summer holiday over, the doors of the babybank had reopened and donations received. So it was time to pop round and do our bit in the process - the initial sorting through the donations by sizes, filtering out the dirty & unusable ones.

After a minor mixup, finding another group in our usual area, we got stuck into digging through several crates while in the mean time catching up about holidays and theatre visits and such things.

Blink and it was approaching 8PM just as we finished the last few bits. Packing up and putting the bags of sorted items away didn't take too long, so after a final sit down we went our own ways.

With more crates already waiting, it might not be the usual 6 weeks before we come back!

Four GGers and three friends of Frenford arrived to help out at Frenford Foodbank' final session today. Sadly, for various reasons Frenford is no longer able to house its foodbank. Originally it was set up to help families struggling through lockdown and its done well to continue for as long as it did. As always todays volunteers did a great job of putting together 36 food packages and including leaflets advising service users where else they can get help.

Massive kudos to all goodgymmers who have been involved in this project over the years, we have been involved pretty much from the start and it was fitting that we played a part in the final session. I have been told it would not have kept going as long as it did without us so we should all be proud of our input.

There were 6 of us..... but let's say we didn't discuss who would be which character!

Some of the usual suspects assembled in the usual ways, for the last pre-holiday babybank session.

As always, Adam & assistants were waiting for us with 4 crates of donations which got sorted out almost on auto pilot by the now very experienced crew.

Next visit to be determined, likely in September.

P.S..... I think cookiemonster is mine

As usual, a variety of methods brought 5 regulars down to the Cornerstone Church to meet Adam and get stuck into sorting the donations received - run + walk + bus were today's choices. Not long after we got started Linda also made it down, bringing Ed along with her for his first experience.

Lots of bags sorted out, ready for processing - job well done!