Clean up your act...and the beach

17 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
Maria Kostoulia
Andrada
Fi
Elena
Alex Bowring
Gemma
Isaac Beevor
Nathan Wood
Daryl Shaw
Rosalind Moody
Nelly
Sam Lefevre
Lindy Macfarlane
Jessie Adams
Steve Lee
Mikhail Amran
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Southwark

Wednesday 28th August

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Maria Kostoulia
Maria Kostoulia

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Sam Lefevre
Sam Lefevre

SESSION ORGANISER

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Mikhail Amran
Mikhail Amran

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It seemed like the end of the summer holidays as we had 17 GoodGymers sign up and come for our group run tonight. Andrada, Daryl, Fi, Lindy, Maria, Nelly, Paulin, Rosalind, Steve. Once everyone had arrived, Sam talked through some changes happening at GoodGym Southwark after his time is up before continuing with his usual speech.

Tonight's ice breaker question, Sam asked everyone to think of their favourite beach as it would be National Beach Day on Friday. Yet, everyone didn't answer the question until we arrived at Salvation Army Camberwell Corps.

We had British beaches, Mexican, Greek, Indonesian, Icelandic and Thai.


Cleaning frenzy

Our last visit to Salvation Army Camberwell Corps. was in May, so Valentina was happy to see us as we met up with her, Mikhail, Elena and Jessie who ran to the task. After going through our list of beaches, Valentina had 4 jobs for us tonight. The first group with Steve, Lindy, Rosalind and Isaac had to clean and oil the newly donated chairs. As the other groups:

  • Daryl, Alex, Andrada, Gemma helped more donations from a cupboard to the newly installed donation bin outside before helping the next team.

  • Paulin, Fi, Maria, Jessie and Sam started on the disinfecting and cleaning the baby toys.

  • Nelly, Nathan and Elena were tasked with the outside activities which included window cleaning and sweeping.

As we busily cleaned in various ways, the time ticked towards 19:55 as Sam called "time" knowing that it would take 5 minutes to pack up and take a group photo. Some of us were up for a pint after the run, so as we headed back we made our way to The Old Nags Head.


Thank You to all the GG-ers

A personal thanks from me to all those who came out last night! Valentina is always happy to have our help and can't wait to have us back in October! Thank you to Mikhail for taking the photos and to Maria for backmarking the runs.


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