Don't need a lift thanks, we're walkers
3 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in York.
- Friday, 24th of April 2020
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York runner
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York and District Indoor Bowls Club have closed their doors for the moment and don't know yet when they'll be reopening. One of their team, Roy, was looking for a good cause to donate their surplus food stock to (many boxes of crisps and cans of drink).
In a classic piece of partnership working...
- Roy rang the York City Council who suggested he contact GoodGym.
- GoodGym HQ then asked us Yorkie who would benefit from this.
- I'd read about Carecent looking for donations to make packed lunches via the brilliant Social Vision newsletter.
- I rang Carecent who were utterly delighted to receive these donations.
Now, here's the logistical bit. Roy couldn't get the donations there himself so we set up a GoodGym relay with Lizzie and I collecting all the stock in the evening, and helping Craig load up his cargo bike to deliver to Carecent, who accept donations between 8am and 9am.
Lizzie and I were not convinced that Craig would fit the boxes on his bike and were primed and ready to bungee additional boxes onto our own bikes too, but I had provided Craig with the measurements and he was confident.
He was right to be, the boxes fitted perfectly and Carecent were super happy.
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