Slippery Soap
5 GoodGymers made their way to help the Little Edi Foundation in Chelmsford.
- Sunday, 24th of January 2021
- Led by Chelmsford runner
The falling snow didn’t stop 5 GoodGym runners from getting outdoors and meeting up for our regular food parcel delivery from Tescos late on a cold Sunday afternoon. Thankfully by the time we got to the task the snow had pretty much stopped and hadn’t settled. It was great to see Lindsay back for her second task and Pam was back for her second week in a row, along with regulars David and Laurie. We met up with Celia from the Little Edi Foundation and waited patiently to see what goodies Tesco might be giving us this week.
Now we never know how much or what we will be given, other than bread which seems to be guaranteed. But even so, I don’t think any of us were expecting the Aladdin’s cave we were presented with. Tescos were clearly having a bit of a clear out of stock and we were given board games, colouring pens and books, suncream, nappies, toys and plenty of soap among many other strange and wonderful finds such as Pyrex dishes, electric toothbrushes, engine oil, batteries, cushions and protein powder along with the usual perishable food items such as bread and sandwiches.
We packed up 12 bags which we delivered promptly to families in need around Chelmsford and also helped get some of the stranger, less perishable items to the charities base to be distributed at another time.
Great work everyone; hopefully see you all again shortly!
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Great to join again this week! An Aladdin's cave is a very accurate description of the bounty of stuff from Tesco's yesterday. See you all again soon x
I take it they didn't take all of the synthetic engine oil?
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