Cage Of Enlightenment

2 Goodgymers helped their local community in Haringey
Emily
Sam Chapman
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Haringey

Monday 17th March

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Emily and myself arrived and got straight to work with this familiar task at Traid to help the team there with their seasonal stock changeover. Or so we thought.

The usual task is to bundle all the unsold clothes into boxes, easy! But today they needed to send cages of carefully folded clothes on the hangers to another store for them to sell. So after a bit of a wonky start, the team graciously showed us the correct way to fold them on the cages, sorry! Correct folding method shown in photo! Emily even picked herself a fancy new GoodGym outfit!

We were all done in the allotted time and on our ways into the evening, to a life drawing class for one of us and home for a lie down for another of us. 😃


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TRAID
TRAID (Textile Reuse and International Development) is a UK charity working to tackle and solve the problems caused by producing, consuming and disposing of clothes.

TRAID (Textile Reuse and International Development) is a UK charity working to tackle and solve the problems caused by producing, consuming and disposing of clothes. We do this by providing convenient ways for the public to reuse clothes while delivering education to people of all ages to raise awareness of the powerful environmental and social benefits of reducing our clothing footprint. The funds we raise are committed to global projects benefiting the people and places making our clothes. The work we support aims to improve environmental and social outcomes from supporting cotton farmers grow organic cotton to helping retailers to eliminate child labour in their supply chains. Most of the funds are raised through our charity shops, and in order to do so, we hold five Sale periods a year across our eleven branches, these last approximately 2-3 weeks. The last day of the Sale, after closing time, we need to pack the leftovers and leave the shop clear for it to be restocked the following day, here is where your teams can be of much help.

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