Doing some 'crate' work!

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Newcastle
Lauren Mc Elwaine
Liz Bennett
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Newcastle

Thursday 6th August 2020

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Lousie, Liz and I (all the L's! ) headed to East End Women's foodbank for our weekly mission with this great organisation! As it was Liz's first time doing this task, Louise (a task regular) gave her a quick summary of what we would be doing for the morning! Liz mentioned that it was really nice to see the link between this task and a task she had previously done with FareShare.

Once the list of deliveries was updated we got to work organising the food parcels for collection. This week the food parcels were in a room slightly further away than usual, so we got lots of extra steps in! When the delivery drivers arrived we helped load the parcels into their cars.

In between the arrival of delivery drivers we packed 45 ambiant food bags and some toiletery/sanitary bags. We also restocked and organised the packing room once we had finished packing the bags!

Towards the end of the task, 3 delivery drivers arrived at once so we really upped the pace and managed to pack around 60 bags into their cars in 10 minutes!!

We all really enjoyed this brilliant task with East End Women's foodbank!


This task supported
East End Women
A project supporting women with skills and training, education, loneliness and domestic abuse recovery.

East End Women offers practical courses for women to build confidence and skills around DIY, sewing, pattern cutting and basic trades. We also deliver the Freedom Programme domestic abuse recovery course, helping women to better understand the roots of domestic abuse and build confidence to identify warning signs in the future. In addition to this, East End Women also offer social activities and drop-in sessions for women experiencing isolation to meet one another, make friends and build local networks.

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