Happy BIRRRRTHHDAYY dear GoodGym!! Happy birthday to us! :)

Wow what a year. 20 runners came out to celebrate; Welcome to our new runner Naomi!

Firstly our task was for our home East Oxford Community Centre. They asked us to leaflet and talk to people along Cowley road about plans for the centre redevelopment, and engage with new people who don’t currently use the centre. We went into shops and cafes, and talked to people at bus stops and in the side streets. We split into teams, some of us were nervous talkers and some of us absolutely loved it.. we had some very interesting chats with a variety of different people. We also moved a piano at the centre and looked for litter as we went..

Afterwards we then went to a slightly wet Roger Bannister Track on Iffley Road (where we will be hosting the GoodGym Games in Summer!!! Do sign up now!)

Trev lead 2 exercises, and we experimented with strides, speed and recovery. You all worked really hard on the track session well done all of you! :)

PARTY

Julia went cake-tastic! Making us a 1st birthday cake (with a Vegan option), and it was a double celebration as Sarah’s 30th Also!

Music Thanks to Angus who brought his Boom Box and put together a set list from our fav GG tracks.. including Born to Run, Moves Like Jagger, Jump Around, Happy, Groove is in the Heart, Can’t Stop, and Eye of the tiger!
If you want to relive our party tunes? Open the GG spotify playlist here

We had balloons and banners, and a fun game to remember our favourite tasks from the last year! Oxford GG we have been to many many places, here are some of our favs...

Children’s Allotment (Mark)

Iffley Glebe on Summer’s evening

Varnishing, cleaning and Frisbee! (Aoife)

Cleaning Graffiti – January New Year Task (Kate)

Broken Spoke & Childrens Allotment (Emma)

Painting community centre (Kate)

Painting Citizens’ Advice (Angus)

Oxford City Farm!

Tree Planting and Broken Spoke

Graffiti cleaning – (Ola)

Packing Christmas Shoeboxes – helping get into Christmas spirit (Rachel)

Hogacre – discovering a new area of Oxford and getting tomatoes and a snack (Bethan)

South Park Ivy and scything (Trev)

Broken spoke, scrapping bikes/cleaning (Ben)

Litterpicking from paddleboards, helping at Flo’s and all the work on the canal (Anwen)

Aston’s Eyon in the summer (Julia)

Thanks to everyone who came along, an indeed who has supported GoodGym during our first year! Here’s to many more!