GoodGym at the Heart of the matter

A group run on a Sunday? It must be January!

7 GoodGymers got out of their beds on the lie-in day of the week to help the British Heart Foundation in Bishopston. After hearing about all of furniture-carting and donation-sorting at the city centre store, the Bishopston crew wanted a bit of the GoodGym action.

We had Claire with us on her first GoodGym run - it was great to have you Claire and we hope to see you again soon!

Once we had got warmed up, the group (with multiple heavy-legged members from the weekend's running) started the plod up the ever-sneakily-uphill Gloucester Road. As we had between Bristol to waking up, the pavements were quiet and we got there in no time.

We were welcomed by the Store Manager, Hazel, who split us into upstairs and downstairs groups. The downstairs team had the job of clearing the the stockroom downstairs to make way for people to move around in and to make the mass of donations easily accessible. Claire, Alice and Russell got stuck in to sorting donations (finding some contenders for weirdest donations along the way...). In just half an hour, the room had gone from box-filled to organised and with so much more room for the BHF team to work in.

Meanwhile, in the Upstairs Team, Chris was busy sizing up small sequiny tops to take home and doing a stellar job of price tagging all the newly donated clothes. Sarah was sorting donations into 'would I buy this' piles and Emma cleared an entire stockroom of hangers to give room to get to the other donations.

A lovely indoor task on a cold January weekend and we can't wait to get back to helping BHF soon!