It was great to meet new recruit, Beth, who joined us this week. With 4 volunteers, we soon had the tables wiped, folded and stacked, then chairs away, floor swept and carpet hoovered. As Jess was short of helpers, our last task was to empty and re-bag the bins. All done. Before you knew it, we'd 'bin' and gone!

Two Goodgymers twirled around Southlands community Church tidying chairs, tables and sweeping the floor after the mighty space that is Planet Food brought joy and full bellies to the people of York, all through surplus food, stellar volunteers and community spirit. What a pleasure!

thank you to everyone who stepped in, all done in super swift time :)

This week Jenna was able to set up Planet Food Cafe tables and chairs with more confidence, as we had the photos from last week, showing the layout of all 16 tables in the hall. So a new system was born! The boxes of surplus food were brought into the shop, then the cardboard boxes were collapsed to send back to Tesco. This week , as last week, loads of white rolls and sorry looking baguettes were looking for a home. How come there is so much of it? Had the bread secretly bred when no one was looking?!

Mikael and Jenna got on with the usual heavy lifting of stacking chairs and putting away tables, when the dustpan and brush staged a takeover! They took the glory, sweeping up the floor and then declared that they are our overlords and we must obey, or we will be hoovered into oblivion! Fine by us we said, but we will list the task next week anyway, in case the 'animate' objects have not worked out how to collapse all 16 tables. That takes real intelligence!

Sometimes there are 6 GoodGymers vying to clear up after the brilliant Planet Food community lunch, and sometimes there are only a couple. This week it was down to Mike and Bec, tidying aways the chairs, tables and sweeping up to get Southlands back into ship shape.