Off our trolleys

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Hackney
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Hackney

Saturday 7th September 2019

Report written by Clair Sim

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7 goodgymers met at St Joseph’s hospice to help pack away their jumble sale in what has become a regular Hackney favourite. The sale takes place every quarter and gives this local charity a huge fundraising boost, with the takings often running into the tens of thousands of pounds. After I’d had a quick recce with task owner Emma, we split into 2 teams: upstairs and downstairs. Upstairs consisted mainly of bags of clothes and shoes which had to be brought down to the basement in our big blue trolleys. A bit of gymnastics was required to manoeuvre 3 trolleys and 4 GoodGymers into the lift at once but we soon had it mastered. Kudos to Amy for her bag stuffing skills in the store room, not an inch of space was wasted. Team downstairs cleared the books, bric-a-brac and assorted jumble in double quick time and we had the whole place cleared in under 90 minutes. The team were full of praise for team GoodGym so I’m sure we’ll be back for the next sale.


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Alex Passa
Clair Sim
Jo
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Sara Stella
Amy Foster
Amy Foster
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Peter Van Tongeren

Sat 7th Sep 2019 at 8:45pm

Nice work Clair

Amy Foster

Sun 8th Sep 2019 at 7:52am

Nice one Clair! Good pun too ; ) : )