It might have been the second Ms P of Islington a pair of West London GoodGymers helped this Saturday, after completing an earlier task, but the story of each older person supported by GoodGym is different. What links all of them is that every beneficiary of our missions faces a challenge and our team is there to assist them in seemingly simple tasks which may have an impact we often underestimate.

It was a tough two years for Ms P who suffered loss, mistreatment and the prospect of losing her home in short succession. Having to move to another location, Ms P hired a couple of garages she slowly moved her items into for temporary storage. She admitted that throughout the years, she had accumulated a lot of things she had a hard time parting with, including the mementoes of her late mum. Moving some of the items turned out to be a two-person job - and here's where the GoodGymers stepped in.

Sevan and Kash visited Islington for their third task of the day to help Ms P:

• take two mirrors off the walls;
• secure the third, ornamental mirror with cardboard and carry it to the storage (the biggest challenge was, of course, to transport it in one piece to avoid 7 years of bad luck);
• unscrew a stubborn TV holder from a wall;
• carry a cabinet and a large basket to the garage (each single-handed!);
• transport boxes with stationery to the garage in a supermarket trolley (Ms P confessed to acquiring five abandoned vehicles like that, which turned out to be very handy during the move).

All those small tasks were straightforward for the GoodGymers but made a difference for Ms P in her endeavour to relocate.