GoodGym Ealing's visit to Care4Calais today brought some pleasant surprises. There was a little more space in the stock room after clothes packs had been handed out and some less used items had gone to storage. That made it much easier to find and put away clothes.

The team today split into sorting donations and getting packs ready for new requests, with Kash focused on new women's donations. There were plenty of clothes to check and size. Kash also found some interesting and unusual items, including:

• Impressive and uncomfortable looking golden heels
• A large donation of clutch bags
• A portable DVD player, along with some holiday home videos

Sevan was working with task owner Tamzin to get packs ready for recipients. With no standard packs ready to add to, every request had to be started from scratch and this time there were a number of husband and wife requests.

As well as the usual men's clothing requests, Sevan was dispatched to find some summery women's clothes and was asked to be generous. Light trousers, dresses and skirts were easy to find. Every top he pulled from the boxes had long sleeves though. A legacy of donations from older, colder times. After a lot of rummaging, vests and cheerful short sleeves were discovered and used to complete the requests.

Another session with Care4Calais is planned for later this month, so sign up here to help out.