40 odd client packages needed to be made, and everyone got stuck on as soon as they arrived. Linda arrived a lot earlier, mostly as she is partly running the foodbank and very keen. With some help from other helpers we got done in just under 2 hours. Just goes to show that many hands make light work

Not only were James & Linda the only Good Gym sign ups for the Frenford Food Bank pick and pack morning, we were the only volunteers on site for quite a while.

It was a relief to see that our Sam had made a last minute decision to join us for the second half and between the three of us we got a good number of packages prepared before the first drivers arrived. We then had an influx of Frenford late arrival packers and the place was all at once bustling with helpers dancing around each other rushing to get the job done.

As always it all came together in the end and we left tired but satisfied that the job had got done.

So busy we forgot to take photos so like the title says you will just have "Picture This" 😁

Linda was already at the food bank when James and I arrived shortly before 9am ready for a full session. The shelves had been stocked previously by Linda and other volunteers in the days leading up to the Good Friday session. There were three other good gymers including Sharon and Herman with Tina which made the 70 or so orders easier to pick as well as some young folk on the Duke of Edinburgh award all working together. There was a good number of Easter eggs donated that were added to every order that had children in the family. Very soon the shelves were severely depleted after filling all the orders and it was time to restock with supplies that we had in the back store. We were finished in record time having done two days work ( normally ) in a much shorter time than we expected and all thanks to Linda and her excellent organisation skills, well done Linda !!

The word went out that Frenford needed help unloading a large delivery ahead of Good Fridays Food Bank session but with the job needing doing during the working day it was inevitible that we would only get our retired members signed up.

Luckily we were paired up with another retired couple from a local Church. The two like minded couples worked very efficiently together and had the job done by 10:15am. Just as we were looking for other useful jobs to fill the time alloted a delivery came in from another supermarket, by the time that one was completed there was just time for a swift tidy up. We left with the satisfaction of knowing the shelves and storage area were sorted and stacked ready fir the next session.

Well not so much keyed up as locked out when Mike and Linda arrived at Frenford Food Bank. Although the Centre officially opens at 8:30 someone forgot to tell the key holder, to be fair we had arrived a bit early and it was all sorted by the official start time.

We were joined by our Kathryn, some Mums of the gymnatics club and the youngsters from the Duke Of Edinburgh Award Scheme. That is the great thing about Frenford, the young, old, short and tall all working to their own strengths together to get the job done. And the job was soon done with a little energy left (very little lol) for the usual shelf filling, tidying up and one of us even managed a small delivery on the way home 🙂

Mike and Linda arrived early at Frenford and got stuck into prepping for the Food Bank deliveries. In no time at all a little bit of shelf filling was done and the food trolleys organised into position ready for when Frenfords own volunteers showed up.

The rest of the session went pretty smoothly and we were all done in good time. Then there was another shelf filling session (the breakfast cereals had taken a bit of a pounding) and a supermarket delivery to store away.

We left tired but happy at a job well done.