It was another busy morning at the Baby Bank. Chris joined the regular crew for the first time, and quickly got up to speed with the process of first checks on clothing donations. Sheila assisted her at first, but then joined Carol doing second checks. Karen was sorting the adult clothing, but as we worked, many more bags of donations were coming in. Plenty more to do next week!

It was another busy morning at the Baby Bank. Having been closed for half term, it was super-busy with donations coming in. Karen and Caroline had to work hard second-checking clothes which had been first-sorted by a volunteer corporate team. Sheila and Carol were doing a primary sort on the school uniform donations which had been piling up for a while. We got rid of many bags-full which didn't make the grade and left the rest neatly in boxes ready for someone else to second-check and put away

Another busy morning at the Baby Bank. When we arrived the tables were piled high with donated clothes which were waiting for their second checks before being put away. Once those had been done, Sheila continued with this while Karen and Caroline took on the first checks. Meanwhile one of the other volunteers was busy picking out clothes for several referrals, which is what it's all about.

It was a wet start to the task so the first job was to help set up the refreshment tent. Sheila and Karen were the first goodgymers to arrive so got stuck in straight away.

Next to arrive was Jen who joined Sheila and Karen in their next job of putting electronic candles into candle bags, under the trees in an attempt to keep them dry.

100 bags were prepared so next they joined the team untangling the lights for festooning the memory tree. It was a delicate operation unknotting the fine wire string lights and Virgilus arrived in time to add them to the tree.

Before setting off on either a 2 5km or 5km walking route, the parents and siblings who had experienced baby loss, shared some readings to set us on our way.

Sheila, Karen and Virgilus stayed at the base to help prepare the medals and lanterns for the walkers return, whilst Jen joined the 5k walk to lead the way.

Thankfully the rain stopped by the time the walks started.

We met the 2.5k walkers at the bridge to head back onto Ray Mill Island together with a lantern procession.

Back at the tree and it was time for a couple more readings and personal reflections before set off on our journeys home.