Kingston Goodgymers dropped off various items at local foodbank points this week to help top them up following extra use over the Easter period.

Dropped a few items at foodbank to help others.

A great turn out for our last foodbank mission of the month. Lots of food and health care products donated to local foodbanks to help out people struggling this winter.

Here are a few pictures from Claire and Rachel who both helped to fill up the donation point at the local Lidl, Petra, Marie-Noëlle, Emily and Julie.

It was a bit of a challenge to cleanup today. Wiping down the numerous piles of boxes and clearing the rubbish barely made a dent in the to do list! A bit of reorganising items back into storage boxes was necessary as everything had been scattered across shelves and in the wrong place.

An extra 30 minutes was needed but thanks to the help of one of the distribution team (who had stayed behind) and an appearance from Henry (the hoover), the majority of jobs were done for another week.

Merton’s Community Fridge is a long-term initiative to tackle food poverty and reduce food waste in the borough. It's essentially a big fridge where fresh surplus food is donated and distributed 3 times a week.

9 goodgymers made donations in various food bank stations around Kingston to help those that are struggling.

This week's DIY food bank drop off saw a bumper crop of tins and health care products donated to those who need it this winter. Dave and Jane both put out calls to their neighbours who kindly added lots more items to our donations so we had an even bigger haul this week! Check out the pictures from Emily, Marie-Noëlle, Rachel, Dave, Jane and Julie.

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