Arriving Julia and Jo were first to arrive and were put to work straight away carrying boxes of donated food from reception into a room at the back of the building. Katrin ran into some travelling problems but joined them soon after, and Linda arrived after her doctor's appointment and got stuck in straight away!

Redbridge welcomes Katrin and Jo from other GG areas - it was great to have you ladies! Hope to see you soon again!

Sorting Gifts - gender neutral? It was fantastic to see so many donated gifts, lots of bags from kind hearted people! We had to organise them all and here is where we encountered an unexpected problem, when we attempted to divide toys into girls/boys categories!

A discussion on gendered toys and everyone's different perception on what girls vs boys would prefer provided an interesting topic of dicussion, diplomacy was maintained at all times and we all agreed that what really counted is that kids will get gifts so we sped things up by sorting the toys by categories, which worked out quite well!: books, games, sports, soft toys, dinosaurs and dragons, pink section, brainy puzzles, superheros and arts&crafts.

Cakes! Lovely Gen provides us with a cuppa and some sweet delights to say thank you and to keep the energy levels up! They were absolutely delicious and we were very grateful for this lovely surprise:)

Well done everyone for showing up and doing good!