A final (for this season) evening at Oxford Mutual Aid food bank doing our flash mob cleaning.

Since the autumn we've worked our way around every inch of the food bank cleaning areas which rarely get any attention. We've moved stock, crates, and shelving. Swept, bleached, mopped, and then figured out the giant tetris of how to put it all back. We've cleaned the kitchen monthly, including taking out kilos of food waste and scrubbing the fridges, walls and floors. We've restacked storage, loaded deliveries, packed Christmas gifts, and cleaned dozens of delivery crates (prising them apart when necessary!).

It's taken 5 months, but WE DID IT!

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝟵 – 𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗿𝘂𝗻 💐 It was a true family affair at Florence Park juniors today 👪 We counted 21 sets of siblings in the results and lots of wonderful mums (and dads!) supported their juniors round the course 🙌 Team Frost joined us in hi-vis too, with mum Andrea and daughter Meredith donning the orange Tail Walker vests 🦺 Thank you and well done to everyone who joined us! Here are some highlights from the event, starting with a flying feet-filled photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZMxMn4HJWUJeFfGu7 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀: 78 juniors kicked off Mothers' Day with two laps of our lovely local park 🌳 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: 3 juniors completed their very first junior parkrun 🫶 Welcome to the parkrun family! 𝗣𝗕𝘀: 23 juniors achieved new personal best times. Great walking and running juniors! 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀: Four! Congratulations to... 🫐 Dexter and Linkai - Half maration (11 junior parkruns) 🍏 Holly - Marathon (21 junior parkruns) 🍊 Isabella - Ultra marathon (50 junior parkruns) Don't forget to drop us an email at florencepark-juniors@parkrun.com if your junior is due to receive a wristband - we'll add them to our list to present when you next pay us a visit 📥 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺-𝘂𝗽: Trev was today's Run Director and warm-up leader, and when Trev announced a reprise of his parkrun Cokey, there was an audible "Yay!" from the crowd 😁 We formed a circle - not hard given the geometry of our start/finish area - and within a few lines everyone was singing, shaking, spinning, and cokeying along 🪩 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀: 21 wonderful volunteers made event 108 happen 🧡 Thanks to each and every one of you for your support. 😊 Megan joined us from our friends at Goodgym for her parkrun volunteer debut. Thank you so much for your support Megan – we hope you enjoyed the morning! 📲 Whilst mother and daughter tailwalked, father and son, Elliot and Rob scanned barcodes at the finish. A real family effort – thanks so much Team Frost! 🌳 Justin joined us at Florence Park for the first time, although this was far from Justin's first time volunteering at parkrun. Justin is a Run Director at Buckingham junior parkrun and has volunteered over 160 times! Thanks so much for paying us a visit Justin 🙂 🦺 Junior Hugo usually runs on a Sunday morning but today he earned his first every parkrun volunteer credit as a marshal with his dad, regular volunteer Daniel. Another fabulous family effort from our wonderful parkrun community. As always, we appreciate any level of support – from weekly volunteering to just a one-off ☺️ Our events wouldn't happen without our hi-vis heroes! If you'd like to learn more or get involved, drop us an email at florenceparkjuniors@parkrun.com Thank you for your support! #loveparkrun

Donning buoyancy aids and a can(oe)-do attitude, a group of GoodGymmers teamed up with Falcon Boat Club to undertake a river litter pick along the Cherwell and Thames as part of OxClean's 2023 Spring Clean.

Our February food bank flash mob tackled the cleaning of the Eastern and Northern sides of the hall. As always, lots of crates full of stock needed to be unstacked and moved elsewhere in the space so that the floors and walls could be unveiled for cleaning. Duly relocated, the areas were swept and mopped, then the fun of trying to restack piles of crates in the same configuration as they came out began. Thanks to 'before' photos we were largely successful this time! The Northern end of the hall proved to be the grottiest spot, with lots of dust, spilt items and general muck to clean up.

While the majority of the GoodGymers toiled away on the moving-cleaning-restacking in the main hall, a breakaway crew sorted fresh produce in the kitchen, swept and cleaned the floors and walls, took out food waste, cleaned the fridges, and left the whole place gleaming.

Last but definitely not least, Anja and Steve cleaned dozens of food crates and stacked them back in the regular piles for reuse.

The amount 19 GoodGymers can achieve in an hour is truly impressive!