Saturday 14th November
Find out about GoodGym TaskForce
Report written by Sevan
"What are your names?" - Mr P
"Kash." - Kash
"...and Sevan" - Sevan
"That sounds like a rock band!" - Mr P
"Well, we are the rock stars of volunteering. ๐ฉโ๐ค๐จโ๐ค" - Kash
Mr P had an unusual decluttering task for the rock stars. Taking coats and jackets from his bathtub and throwing them in the bin. The aim was to get him one step closer to having his bathroom replaced.
Why were there coats in the bathtub and why were they being disposed of? They'd been put there briefly while Mr P's hallway was redecorated, then he had a heart attack and the clothing stayed in the bath for a while longer, ending up pretty dirty. Now housebound, Mr P didn't need his jacket collection anymore.
The GoodGymers knew that the clothes would be valuable to a charity if they were clean. Not knowing who in the local would take on the effort of washing or dry cleaning them, they agreed to bag them up and throw them out. Kash and Sevan had both been to enough Care4Calais clothes sorting sessions to give the clothes a once over before getting rid of them.
"Let's check the pockets."
"There might be some cash left in there." - Sevan
"Probably with the queen on it. Queen Victoria!" - Mr P
Most of the jackets came up empty for hidden treasure... until the last one, sitting at the bottom of the bathtub. It had a handful of coins, but not only that. There was also a pair of gloves to keep Mr P's hands warm - very useful - and an envelope, which he took and put back in the bathtub ๐คท.
On the way out, the band put the bags in the metal communal waste bin and headed off for their next gig ๐ธ.
Hammersmith and Fulham
Make sure that no one in our local community has to go hungry
