Getting our knickers in a twist

37 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Norwich

Monday 18th March 2019

Report written by Steven Hitcham

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We had our 2nd biggest turnout this evening with 37 GoodGymers hitting the streets of Norwich.

Amy C was completing her 25th good deed!

A thank you to Robert for being walk-leader, Catherine for being back runner and Helen E for being the photographer.

We were visiting the Oxfam Charity Shop tonight for a variety of tasks. Emma met us there and explained what they were, which included: cleaning the shop floor, putting new stock out on the shop floor, giving the kitchen a deep clean and taking books down on the conveyor belt into the pulping room. You'd think it would take some organising with a big group of people, but you'd be run as within a couple of minutes they were all split up and cracking on with all of these tasks.

It was quite an entertaining evening... check out the photos! Dave T styling a feminine hat, me with my whopping mushroom and three of the girls fitting into one pair of knickers... a sight I'm still not sure what to make of haha.

After a good 40 minutes of hard work, which equated to an incredible 24 hours of volunteer time we finished up and headed back... but not straight back. Oh no, I'm not that kind! So it was a detour via Grapes Hill, which everyone put a sterling effort into. After that we did a quick sprint session in Chapelfield Gardens before returning to The Forum. The evening was finished up with some cakes Elizabeth brought along ahead of her 21st birthday on Thursday.

Next week we're doing a litter pick in aid of WWF Earth Hour.


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Oxfam - Magdalen Street
Working together to help end poverty

Oxfam on Magdalen Street sorts kind donations from the public and sells them in our large charity shop! We take everything: books, clothes, homewares, music, DVDs, accessories and much more! All of the money raised goes to Oxfam to help them in their crucial work in ending poverty and injustice. Our shop is closing down for 3 weeks from 28th July for essential maintenance work to be carried out. This will involve taking absolutely EVERYTHING off of the huge shop floor (stock and shelves!) and taking it into storage in the backrooms of the shop. We rely entirely on volunteers and we anticipate this being a huge job, so any help that we can get on either Saturday 28th July or Sunday 29th July from GoodGym will be much appreciated!!! Everything has to be cleared by the end of Sunday 29th to allow builders access from first thing Monday 30th July!

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Attendees
Emma
Colin Smith
Steven Hitcham
Katy
Bill Edmonds
Jasmine Stone
Sophie
Robert Organ
Neil Allanach
Alex Wallace
Catherine D
LIAM
Elizabeth H
Bobby B
Sandra Emerson
Liz Kerr
Stephen Reed
David Thomson
Kevin Burgess
Leanne
Sarah Ward
David Tuthill
Elliott
Maisie Beastall
Helen
Andrew Ralph
Jamie
Rute Picao
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Robert Organ

Tue 19th Mar 2019 at 3:13pm

Another good job done! #dogoodfeelgood