Pret’s Get It On

The Bright Morning Stars Prisons and Homeless Outreach charity helps to support all sorts of vulnerable, elderly and homeless people. The project helps provide shelter, safety and support to these people, and one of the things they do is to provide meals and food for those in need.

Pret A Manger in Clapham Junction kindly donate their unsold food and leftovers to the charity, which would otherwise go to waste. This is where the GoodGym heroes come in...

The donations need transporting from the store, to several miles down the road to Lola, one of the distributors for the charity, who lives past Stockwell. Lucy, Laura and Olivia all turned up to convey the goods. We had all come prepared - Lucy and Olivia who came on two wheels had big backpacks to fill, and Laura had her own two wheels, in the form of a suitcase, ready to load up.

The team at Pret welcomed us in and showed us what we had to get packed - sandwiches, toasties, wraps, baguettes, granola, salads, and the late addition of about thirty bottles of the lean green juice! Between the three of us, we managed to get all the donations fit into our bags of choice, even squeezing the juice in.

We went off our separate ways, into the chilly January evening, but ended up at the same final location to drop off the goods to a grateful Lola.

Good deed wrap-ped up, we Pret the job done!