Keith made a solo effort this week to help Anita at Raggy Road allotment prepare their newly acquired plot.

Today's mammoth task was to dig a path to the plot so it is accessible for the elderly and vulnerable people who tend the allotment to help their mental health and wellbeing.

It's so satisfying seeing the progress being made as the new plot develops.

Keith up the good work and hopefully more people can sign up for our next two sessions there on Saturday 27th April and Monday 29th April.

Agnija and Keith headed over to one of our new task owners to get stuck into digging up their new allotment plot and pruning an apple tree.

They were joined by a slithering snake of a friend but they didnt contribute a lot to the task.

There is still lots to do here so do keep an eye out for future listings.

Well done to our Saturday community missioners Samuel, Jen and Keith for helping Raggy Rd allotments team on our first ever task with them.

The team arrived to a plot that was covered in hairy weeds and looked like a little sleeping monster! After digging up the weeds and rotavating the soil, clearing rubbish and removing a fence then finally adding compost they were done! A pat on the back for making the plot look less thick and ready for the Raggy Rd team to use with their service users.

Also a huge congratulations to Samuel on his 200th good deed!

Today we were involved in an international women’s day event that merged women led local community groups with an upcycling event focused on ladies clothing!

This idea was the brain child of Tirza from Slough Anti Litter group supported by Riffat and Clarissa from The Slough Bid; Rosa from Together As One (and GoodGym); Sbba from Asian Star Radio and Knit your socks off; Samina from Sakoon through Cancer and Knit your socks off; Bep from Thrive365; Claire from I Got Style and of course us!

Each group had a host of volunteers supporting the event from set up to swap shop to manning stalls to panel interviews to decant! Well done to all the team members. Great unity!

Need some hanger management?

So we started the day by helping to hang up already donated items. Sut was already on it by the time I arrived. So I hanged around letting her get on with it.

We soon had a few rails already to go and dressed to impress! Just needed customers now.

Has that cardi-gone?

So what is a swap shop? It’s an up recycling event whereby you can select up to 10 items to donate, pay a donation fee, bring in your clothes to the swap assistants (us), and collect tokens for the value of your items which can then be used against other donated items!

We had a tight slot of 30 minutes to receive the swap items, code them to a value (we had a Strava vs parkrun coding system going on so as to not offend anyone if we thought the value was lower (parkrun … sorry parkrun we love you really), or higher value items aka Strava! We then dished out the tokens for the customers to use against other clothes.

Dior to Dior sales

Although the event was a pre book event we didn’t want passerby’s to have FOMO so we had Agni out in the mall handing out flyers letting people know that they could come in too!

Purse-Shoe your Dreams

Whilst the swap assistants were busy sorting and hanging, there were workshops and panels interviews going on where some really insightful and heart warming stories were being shared… I loved that Anita loves red (we have a tshirt just waiting for her), Samina loves trainers (we know where you can use those!) and Claire’s advise on wearing a different colour each day next week might just be my challenge (I’m sure I have race t-shirts in every colour of the rainbow).

Even The Mayor Amjad Abassi and local MP Tan Dhesi came along to support the event.

Really positive feedback from the customers with loads being ‘bought’ during the swap shop opening time.

Thank you to the team for getting involved.