Books and activity packs sorted and ready for drivers to deliver to schools for local families.

Over the past few weeks, members of GoodGym have been working alongside other community volunteers to help get The Store Cupboard, a new community affordable food project in Hanwell, off the ground. Tonight was the final push to get everything set up and ready to start receiving customers in the next few weeks!

• Milly and myself were all about displaying the cans in a fancy stack to make the shop beautiful
• Harvey helped clean, lift and shift all night long, he also teamed up with Michelle to help get a full heavy trolley of stuff safely over from over the road
• Bernice was all hands on deck helping with all the cleaning and sorting she could
• Caz came down with her car to help us load up stock from over the road and transport it to the new store, she was an essential part of the team tonight, we couldn't have done it without her!
• As well as helping with lots of odd jobs all evening, Ed also provided wheels for the task to get as much stock over ready to use

This space is going to be an absolutely amazing community asset and it's been a privilege to be a part of the team making it come together and watching the space transform over the past few weeks.

You can learn more about The Store Cupboard here and follow all their progress as they get started helping the community.

Today, 6 awesome GoodGym members braved the snow and ice to get to 'The Store Cupboard' a new not for profit affordable food project that's going to launch in Hanwell in the next few weeks.

About the project:

This new project is going to be incredible and will aim to provide an effective way to help people’s food budgets go further when they find themselves in need.

They will be looking to provide healthy affordable food and access to local support in hope of helping people by bridging the gap.

The job at hand:

They asked for a hand with the essential task of helping to clean the space to help get this community project off the ground and we jumped at the chance to be involved.

Everyone really got stuck in today and after 3 hours we'd made a HUGE difference to the space.

Eleonora took on the mammoth task of cleaning a huge pile of metal crates that will be used in the shop. Milly swept, mopped and took on any task thrown at her including dragging a very heavy vintage sink into the garden for a good scrub down (in minus temperatures in just a t-shirt, I might add!). Jackie joined us for her first every GoodGym community mission today and we were so lucky to have her, she cleaned, lifted and shifted for three hours straight! Bernice cleaned every bit of furniture she could get her hands on! And last but not least Muhammad joined us to help blast through all the last bits of cleaning needed in the second half of the shift.