The Monday morning food bank setup at St Mary’s was briefly at risk due to the late arrival of the delivery van with supplies from the central warehouse in Ealing.

Anna, Martin and JP (visiting from Richmond) were on hand and chatted with the other volunteers as we heard occasional updates on the van’s location and progress.

Eventually a cheer went up as the van arrived and we got to work rapidly unloading a bumper load of fresh and packaged food, including mango pieces, bananas, ready to eat meals and a huge load of coriander.

We quickly packed up the now-empty van with reusable boxes and plastic crates and sent the driver on his way, relieved that the food bank slot would go ahead as usual - and raced off to our next activities.

Each Monday morning, GoodGym lends a hand at the South Ealing Community Food Cupboard, helping the volunteers sort and organise surplus food for the local community.

The delivery was running a little late this Monday, but there were plenty of volunteers on hand to make up for lost time. Once the van arrived, they got straight to work and made quick progress unloading and packing everything away.

There was a good selection of fresh fruit alongside a particularly impressive amount of soup. By the time we finished, the shelves were well stocked and the fridge was packed full too!

p.s. thank you Denzel for taking photos and sharing what happened!

What a lovely morning! The famous red and yellow of the DHL van pulled up along side the church and - to everyone’s surprise - it was full to the brim with crates and creates of food donations. We almost didn’t have space for everything! At least triple what they usually get, apparently (and they usually receive plenty).

The whole team had their work cut out but this only meant that more families had fresh, healthy and plentiful food for the week. (Plus - our biceps feel that little bit firmer today!)

GoodGymers Melissa, Martin and Alan joined the regular locals to help unload and sort the delivery to South Ealing Community food cupboard at St Mary's church.

As well as plenty of fresh fruit and veg, this week's supplies included large quantities of yogurt and single cream. There was so much yogurt that a local school was put on standby to take any surplus as a lunchtime treat.

On Monday morning, a trio of GoodGymers helped unload the deliveries at the St Mary's food cupboard: the regular Martin, very active new joiners Yonas and Anna, and the honourable guest Afsar, who lives 6000 kilometres away from London, but loves GoodGym and always gets involved in many tasks every time he visits his family in Ealing. How amazing is that!

I am delighted to join GoodGym after two years gap and undertake the task at the food cupboard in South Ealing's St Mary Church. It's a wonderful task and to met with Goodgym team. - Raja Muhammad Afsar

Kat, Danny, Harvey, and Iram showed up in the quiet days between Christmas and New Year to keep the South Ealing Food Cupboard running smoothly.

In true seasonal style, Santa clearly needed to review his logistics - the second delivery van arrived first, and the first turned up later! Luckily both when GoodGymers were present! Despite the topsy-turvy timings, the team got straight to work. Danny, Harvey and Kat handled the heavy lifting, unloading the van and hauling crate after crate to the door while Irām helped with sorting and organisation.

The festive feast included mountains of carrots, pumpkins, turnips, cauliflower, pigs in blankets pizza, herbs, HelloFresh bags and loads of oranges. The citrus fruit needed careful sorting as many weren’t fit for stocking distribution. It was a bumper haul and most of the unpacking was impressively wrapped up within the hour!