Tea(m) effort

This Friday morning Su and Kash decided to use their time off to help out Ealing 135 Group, a friendly local network run by and for parents and carers in the Borough of Ealing. The Ealing 135 Group volunteers run a weekly playgroup in Ealing for mums with under 5's.

Su and Kash arrived at 9:15 am at St Paul's Community Playschool to put out the toys and mats from the toy cupboard. Everything they pulled out from the closed was so colourful 🌈 that it transformed a featureless hall into a children's paradise! 🦄

As they prepared the place for the arrival of mums with their little ones, a kitchen window opened, and a new option was added to the potential tasks list: serving hot drinks and biscuits! ☕🍪 Two GoodGymers proceeded to the door with the ominous "No children" sign and were instructed what to do. For an hour, Su and Kash offered the guests tea and coffee and topped up the plates with rich tea biscuits, digestives, bourbon biscuits and gluten-free chocolate chip cookies. It takes a certain kind of person to be a great host at such events, and Su was a natural!

All the babies and toddlers in the group were very well-behaved - there were no sounds of drama, and the kids didn't try too hard to reach for the biscuits while their mums turned their heads away.

The GoodGym kitchen team washed up the mugs and teaspoons regularly, so the utensils only needed to be dried at the end. Su and Kash helped pack away the toys and were ready to go. The hall was turned back into a bland room hiding its rainbowy secrets in the cupboard until the next Friday morning! 🤫