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10 Apr 2024
‘Better’ managers get a ‘taste’ for volunteering
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Eight GLL colleagues volunteered at the local Irish Centre in Catford
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The management team from ‘Better’ leisure centres in the Lewisham area is looking for local projects that need a helping hand.
This week, eight colleagues volunteered at the local Irish Centre in Catford, preparing a hearty, three-course meal for almost fifty visitors. Working with the charity Food Cycle, they split into two groups to prepare and serve carrot and coriander soup, vegetarian spaghetti Bolognese and croissant bread pudding.
They enjoyed the experience so much that they’re keen to find another worthy cause.
Food Cycle exists to help tackle food poverty and wastage by making meals out of locally-sourced, surplus food that would normally go to landfill. This may have become damaged in transit, might be past its ‘best before’ date or might have been over-ordered but even so, is still perfectly edible. Food Cycle provides free meals at the Lewisham Irish Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Matthew Houghton, Better’s Community Sport Manager in the region, comments, “The management team thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and we would like to thank Mel and her team at Food Cycle for their patience, guidance and support. It all ran very smoothly and we were complemented on our professionalism – although we did have one of the team chop enough garlic to feed the five thousand!
“Other than that, it turns out that if we didn't have a career in leisure, catering could be our second calling! Now we’re itching to get going with our next challenge so if you know of a group looking for volunteers, please get in touch – [email protected].”
Better leisure centres are run by charitable social enterprise GLL. Supporting local communities is an important part of the organisation’s ethos.
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Established in 1993, GLL is the largest UK-based charitable social enterprise delivering leisure, health and community services. We operate over 145 public sport and leisure centres and 27 libraries (including three prison libraries) in partnership with over 30 local councils, public agencies and sporting organisations. Our leisure facilities enjoy more than 39 million visitors a year with over 450,000 members. Alongside our core leisure and library divisions, we operate in sport and legacy development, health intervention and education - as well as offering the GLL Sports Foundation, one of the largest independent support programmes for talented young athletes in the UK.
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