Three of us arrived at Frenford Food bank to find 50 food orders to be packed. Luckily we had four lovely friends of Frenford to help too. As usual both teams gelled really well, working together and helping one another out or facilitating rest and refuel breaks. Just as we thought we had finished another two were added so in the end 52 packages were picked and packed.

Linda and Ed had already been there twice this week prepping for today and must have done a good job of organising things as we seemed to finish really quickly and a shout out goes to Peter for using his valuable annual leave to give the task his invaluable help.

A few Goodgym members committed to clean up local green spaces and streets in the month of October well done for your efforts shall we do it again for November. Check out photos and stories

Now the clocks have gone back, the darkness creeps in earlier, so it is about time to get those head torches charged again!

This evening Aunty Linda strolled around Wanstead with her two 'bodyguards', picking up litter in some of the usual hotspots and finding a new one as well.

Besides the usual rubbish and a few car parts on the way, the new dump found had lots of rubbish including NO2 canisters and numberplates, to name a few items.

In total 7 bags were filled up, left for the Council to collect.

For the first time since lockdown, 3 sessions in 3 days for the same task!

This evening at ImpactSOS I finished the little sports towels and had my own corner putting together 6 chairs and 3 tables, all picked up from a well known Swedish furniture company....

Job done, it was time to say goodbye to the team - might see some again down the line

One of the nice things about follow-up sessions is to see the progress of the project.

The different rooms are starting to take shape, things falling into place step by step, almost ready to be fixed in place.

This evening more little bits of prep to be done:

• Kareem joined Kat in rolling up more of the wrapping paper
• Tom joined Finn putting together stools for the cinema room
• sorting bottles, cleaning re-purposed floor tiles & folding sports towels were my contribution

More sessions to follow this week - grand opening from 12.30 on Saturday.

P.S. anyone know an available DJ for the opening event?