Love the experience. The organiser gave very detailed explanation of the process. Such an enlightening afternoon!

When I arrived I felt welcomed from the team, was very easy to find the location. The work was satisfying and easy as well. I am happy to do this more often.

Started the morning in the kitchen, helping to prep food to be packed into lunchboxes - all to the sound of disco! Part 2 involved sorting fresh veg from the warehouse, ready for the kitchen. Tomatoes and potatoes galore! Met some lovely people and was treated to a hearty lunch at the end. A great way to start the weekend!

The Felix Project is a large and efficient organisation for distributing pallets of food to charities. I worked at their warehouse in Poplar - they have others. After signing in on a tablet and getting my high-visibility jacket and steel-toe boots, I was shown the lunch room, the warehouse and chilled rooms. David and Julia led by example and showed me how to find the boxes of various foods on the packing list, put these on trolleys, wheel these to the pallet, stack and shrink wrap the pallet, and check off the items on the packing list. We put a piece of cardboard with the name of the charity under the shrink wrap so each pallet could be identified. The walking and lifting was a low-intensity two-hour workout. Small efficiency improvements are possible: - Some traffic and parking rules for the pallet trucks and trolleys. - Printing the names of charities on paper and adding these to the pallets may be easier to read than marker on cardboard. - Eliminating decimals on the packing list, unless the number of boxes is sometimes fractional, not integer.

I had a fantastic time at The Felix Project. I learnt the ropes from Denis, a super friendly and supportive staff member. He helped me assemble my first food order before I moved on to helping others with theirs. The collaborative and friendly atmosphere, from staff to fellow volunteers, made this task both productive and enjoyable. And to add to how good I felt about giving time again, I (unexpectedly?!) got to do some strength training too! What a way to get back to GoodGym!

A great morning at the Felix project, showing some of the newer volunteers the ropes, sorting new deliveries by use by/best before dates and getting a bit of packing done! In the afternoon I had a great first trip out on delivery- unpacking the van on the other end without the fork lifts was a real challenge but amazing to see where the food from the warehouse goes and what an important difference it makes! As always, a tasty lunch to top it off!