This evening’s one-hour task at Grow Baby was all about teamwork, speed and a very effective human chain.

Our crew — Dave, Rachel, Farzeen, Emily, Raquel, Anna, Jana and Laura — helped move bags of sorted clothing that had been rejected from donations and prepared for recycling. The mission: shift them from the basement up to the first floor, ready for collection tomorrow.

With Dave stationed on the stairs and the rest of the team forming a slick human chain, bags were hooped, passed and stacked at impressive speed. Farzeen also multitasked by donating and carefully sorting her own children’s clothes onto the rail, while Jana kept count of the bags.

The result? 72 bags moved in just 20 minutes.

With time left over, we caught our breath, chatted about January Challenge mileage, and admired a job very well done. A brilliant effort for Grow Baby, a charity providing vital clothing and equipment to families with babies and young children.

Another great task see you next time 💪♻️

Today was filled with unpacking lots of new donations provided by the local community and sorting them into the relevant boxes for clothes and toys.

I had time to prepared a few new baby bundles for expectant parents and also clear out a load of stuff ready for tonight’s Goodgym task at Growbaby.

Today, there were a lot of toys to sort through, organise, clean up and pop into order! Goodgym helped get coats, snowsuits, hats and wellies out for the little ones during this cold wet winter!

Today we successfully sorted all the books for visiting children and unpacked a lot of baby grows for growing babies!

We kicked off the year by helping re-open Growbaby’s doors after the festive closure. Many donations to sort and distribute - winter hats, coats and gloves dished out to ease the burden of the winter! We certainly saw it, said it and sorted it to the max! Great session!

Full of Christmas spirit 6 GoodGymers were up bright and early to help at the pop up Christmas shop for clients of the Kingston Pantry.

GoodGym split themselves between being personal shoppers (Anna, Petra & Julie) and restocking the shelves (Dave, Julie, Saber & Claire) with wonderful gifts including Lego, toiletry sets, cool boxes, dolls, remote control cars and even robotic snakes!

Personal shopping allowed us to meet the clients and take them around the different sections where they could select a set number of gifts. As the gifts were snapped up the shelves were quickly restocked by the team.

Meanwhile Claire put together gift packages of toys, books and clothes for some very young children being looked after by another charity this Christmas.

The Pantry's clients were delighted with their selections as it meant they could provide gifts for their families this Christmas.