A New Scope

That’s three consecutive weeks of Star Wars puns!

It was our first indoor task for a while tonight as we helped out the Scope charity shop. Scope are a charity that increase opportunities for disabled people and their shops are a big source of income.

It was quite an eye opener seeing behind the scenes and all the work that needs to be done sorting through donations. Heather, the shop manager, and her team are doing a fine job working in a very small area but the donations keep coming in so they can always do with more help. Our jobs included sorting through boxes of shoes to make sure they were all pairs (a surprising amount weren’t) and in a reasonable condition to sell. Helena & Laura had a fantastic time sorting through a huge pile of handbags and Laura declared she would be happy to do the same task every week!

Everybody else worked on bar coding, tagging donations and taking the rubbish out to the bins. There is a clever barcoding system to track who donated what so they can get an email letting them know how much their donation raised. Another system marks how long the items have been on the shop floor, if they haven’t sold within 14 days it gets sent to another store and sold for £1 per item. Charity shops are not only a great way to raise money they are also a fantastic recycling facility!

After 45 minutes we wrapped things up to head out into the drizzle for a fitness session. We did descending ladders of paired exercises starting at 10 dropping by 2 each time to 2 of squats/press ups then lunges/tricep dips and finally the leg destroying burpees/squat jumps.

Well done people. More good done, more runs run!