Ealing Soup Kitchen

A faith-based Soup Kitchen that provides food, advocacy, & practical help for the vulnerable & homeless
Ealing Soup Kitchen is a registered charity set up to help the vulnerable and homeless in the area. Nine local churches support our faith-based Soup Kitchen, which has been running since 1973.

51 GoodGymers have supported Ealing Soup Kitchen with 187 tasks.


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StephDucat

Spring time : time to clean?

Friday 22nd March

Written by StephDucat

It's spring time so is it spring cleaning time? No it's just time to clean up the kitchen, the serving area and the common areas. Our beloved Emmanuella was not on duty today, so Steph with a few volunteers took on the challenge to tidy up. Normally Emmanuella would ensure that all the leftovers were gone : today Steph took the lead as also brought some containers. In the end, spotless and no food were left over.

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StephDucat

It’s time for a fresh starch

Friday 22nd March

Written by StephDucat

It’s time for the service to start and Roberta stayed on to help even if she did not sign up. She did great with serving the customers. Soup was the starter, followed by sausages with mashed potatoes, some peas and gravy. Veggie sausages also avaliable. Apple struddle with custard was back due to popular demand and succes. Steph Ducat in the kitchen with some of the regulars.

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StephDucatRoberta

Potato Man : You’re a peeler of strength.

Friday 22nd March

Written by StephDucat

Friday Hub and Steph Ducat is back at ESK so we’re bake in business with the kitchen team. Potato 🥔 was on the menu, but we didnot have enough so Angela sent Steph to the local store by the church to collect a massive bag of spuds. Peeling, cutting, cooking and mashing spuds on the menu today. Soup and desserts also on the to do list. Today Roberta the 1st shift and helped Arul with the snack and grocery bags followed by assisting in the clothing section.

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Emmanuella Contopoulou

"Another day has gone... You are not alone"

Friday 15th March

Written by Emmanuella Contopoulou

The old fellows are missed but somehow there are always people that help in the crypt of St John's church. It is like magic🪄 The cleaning/tiding work was done to perfection as always. Some food will be frozen for next week and everything else that remained after the clients left was packed into old containers that came handy once more. Nothing went wasted.

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Emmanuella Contopoulou

"At the end of the day"

Friday 8th March

Written by Emmanuella Contopoulou

At the end of the day what matters is how much love we gave and felt. And ESK is a place where you can feel that at any time of the day and I always feel that at the end of the day. Love for people that need your help, love for each other, love for the place and for our planet. This is one of the many gifts Good Gym is giving not only to those we serve, but to ourselves too.

Not many pictures again, sorry. Next week Stephan is back and he will upgrade the report with his great selfies😉

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Shami Hogarth

It's bagging time

Monday 4th March

Written by Madhan

I joined Shami when she was folding the tissue papers with cutleries. Emma asked me to arrange the bags into groups of ten and tie them up, so that it would make their lives easier when they make the grocery bags in the next shift.

We ran out of bands to hold the bags together. We improvised and made ropes using torn plastic bags. After having tea, we moved all the snack bags to the front.

Shami was tasked with writing the menu of the day. She managed to use all the markers and we had a debate on how to spell Daal. Is it Dhal or Dhaal or Daal? Shami chose Dhall in the end.

By 5:40pm we covered all the setup. The food didn't arrive till 5:50pm. It was Daal and Rice today. Before the GoodGymers for the next shift arrives, I was helping out in the kitchen with the packaging.

Beat and Anuj arrived few minutes before the task time. They were placed on clothing sections. Once Kash showed up I handed over my food transport duty to her and left.

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