Speed Dating at the foodbank

15 goodgymers, 2 routes, 28kg of donations, 11 crates of sorting. What a Tuesday!

Tonights task was at the Foodbank warehouse in Cardiff, a little bit further away than our usual routes. We offered out two routes, one as usual from outside the wonderful Sport Wales which would be 7km in total, and a shorter option from the City Centre equaling 5km in total.

Group 1 - led by Michael met at 18:15 ready to head out right on time (18:30) in order to get to the task. Nathan, Adam, Llion, Marie, Nadine, Gemma, Dylan and Michael made their way that extra distance and on top of that bringing donations for the foodbank too.

Group 2 - led by Darren had an extra bit of time for their meet and didn't leave until 18:35 so made use of this time with a foodbank workout. Su, Martin, Andrew, Imy, Dylan and Darren got physical with their tins!

Group 1 & 2 soon met up and finally got to the task on time, once there we met up with Michelle and the group were all together. We went into the foodbank and received a quick tour of the building. We put our donations out and had them weighed before heading over for our next good deed of sorting. We were put at our tables where we were to pick up a crate, write the best before date on the items in marker and then pop them into the correct storage crate. It was a little like a backward supermarket sweep...

As we had run out of tables, 5 remaining goodgymers were over in the storage area putting items into date order.

Half an hour later and we were ready to head back, we had stayed a little later as it was a very worthwhile task. We had also found our newest mascot,

Milky Joe

Now for a social in the City as we join up with some additional goodgymers for the celebration of a successful citizenship application.

Get signed up for next week here