Snooker Loopy at the Food Bank

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Nottingham

Wednesday 31st January

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GoodGym Nottingham pooled its resources and turned up on cue to deal with an issue that had The Meadows Food Bank snookered (shoutout to Peter and Nigel for those epic puns).

Mark at the Food Bank had more heavy lifting for us to do, this time a giant, solid slate pool table that needed to be moved outside. It was no mean feat, but with Rachel's expertise from the theatre, we managed to get it from the main café out to the car park without so much as a scratch.

Next up was moving some pallets from one side of the car park to the other and getting them piled up neatly, and bringing a fridge out that had been taking up precious storage space.

Finally, it was time to restock the warehouse area. The Food Bank had recently been given a large grant it has used to buy a lot of food in bulk, so we followed Mark's list to bring the items most needed down from upstairs.

While all this was going on, we also had Amelia from NottsTV following us with a camera and interviewing us about GoodGym and the January Challenge (Nottingham hit its targets, amazing work!). Her piece should be on some time between 5:30 and 7:30 tomorrow, I'll post a link in the Facebook group and WhatsApp once it's up!

Thank you so much to everyone who showed up, looking forward to seeing you again soon!


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HOPE Nottingham
Inspiring & Growing Communities of HOPE Throughout Nottingham and Beyond

how we help Hope Nottingham's vision is to 'inspire and grow communities of Hope throughout Nottingham and beyond'. We are a Christian charity, which supports those of all faith or none. We work in shared mission with local churches and community groups, empowering volunteers to serve those in need in neighbourhoods all around Nottingham. ​ Hope House in Beeston and our newly developed Carlton Community Hub have become one-stop community support centres, working in partnership with many local agencies, to provide places of trust and transformation for local people. ​ Hope Nottingham operates many neighbourhood Foodbanks across the city, helping people out of crisis and directing people to life-changing support. Some of these centres are beginning to develop the same model as Hope House to meet the physical, material and spiritual needs of local communities.

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Attendees
Nigel Rowden
Serafina Rowden
David Cross
Rachel Watson
Tom Oliver
Peter Edwards
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Mark Gilyead
Mark Gilyead (he/him)

Fri 2nd Feb at 11:12am

Sounds like an awesome session 💪 And it'll make such a difference to the foodbank's operations. Nice one all 👏