Carol, Caroline, Karen and Sheila met at the Baby Bank. We were pleased to find that all our hard work last week had not been undone, and that the travel cots still contained our neatly labelled bags. With a temporary stop on new donations coming in we were able to sort through the bags we had , and fill up all the boxes and overflow storage bags with the quality-checked items. The Baby Bank can now issue a wish-list of the items and age ranges we are short of.We also helped put together referral packs for families in need, which is what it's all about. Another productive morning's work

It was a challenging morning for Goodgymers Carol, Caroline, Karen and Sheila. The Baby Bank has been inundated recently with clothes donations. While they have a temporary stop to taking any clothes, our task was help order the donations bags we already have. They were in a right old mess - some unlabelled bags, some in the wrong storage travel cot, and many contained a huge mix of clothes for different age groups. We spent the morning inspecting what was in each bag, labelling each bag clearly with the gender and age group, and making sure it was in the correct storage place. Now any volunteer looking for a specific size should be able to select the correct bag. The facility looked so much more ordered and tidier when we were finished. Thanks to everyone for putting in a much longer shift than normal to make sure we finished the job

Baby Bank regulars Carol and Sheila were joined this morning by Babs for her very first GoodGym session.Welcome! After a lesson in the art of clothes sorting from Sheila, Babs quickly got to grips with the high standards required for clothes donations to be given out to our referred families. It was a lovely peaceful morning's sort, with donations coming in as quickly as we could process them. Meanwhile another volunteer was putting together packs for referred families, so we could see the whole process from beginning to end. It was all helped by having some lovely cooling fans keeping us at the right temperature

Carol and Karen helped out at the Baby Bank this week. There was a large corporate team in so Carol and Karen were promoted to blue volunteer, lanyards as opposed to the usual red visitor lanyards and were able to guide the corporate team while they did the first checks on the donated clothing. Carol and Karen did the second checks and put everything neatly into the correct boxes.

It was a belated celebration for Karen's 50th Good Deed at the Baby Bank this morning . She was pleased to receive her medal, but it was business as usual, sorting, sorting and more sorting of donations