Gold Star School Visit to Make It All White

29 Goodgymers helped their local community in Portsmouth
Lucy Booth
Katie Carew-Robinson
Tony Hewett
Jo Kitching
Angela Chick
Maura Cole
Rosie Sayers
Val Cameron
Tim Clements
Louisa
Tracey Dean
Jen Stoneham
Penny Salman
Katie London
Francesco Ruvolo
India Custance
Kat Bruce
Catherine
Pippa
Abby
Michael Tarpey
Joe
Lynn Spencer
Ellie Powell
Jack Middleton
Chez
Megan Orton
David Metcalf
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Portsmouth

Wednesday 19th February 2020

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Katie Carew-Robinson
Katie Carew-Robinson

SESSION ORGANISER

Angela Chick
Angela Chick

REPORT WRITER

Maura Cole
Maura Cole

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Rosie Sayers
Rosie Sayers

PHOTOGRAPHER

Val Cameron
Val Cameron

WALK LEADER

Catherine
Catherine

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First of all a big warm Wednesday welcome to Dave who joined us for his first run tonight! We had record breaking numbers so HUGE thanks to everyone for coming out and Egg for making a special appearance as well as a return from Penny & Frankie who last joined us a year ago at this trip to Naomi House. Please come back again this year!

After our intro and a quick warmup we headed south to St Swithuns school where we were greeted by the ever-organised caretaker, Chris. He provided a whole new level of task organisation and delegation with carefully masked out areas for painting, notes on what needed doing and other notes of other jobs. Impressive!

The group of nearly 30 strong were split into different tasks - many taking up painting jobs, while others took on buffing the floors (or wrestling with the buffer in India and Pippa's case), cleaning carpets, wiping down tables, and other tasks Chris could find for us. The "buff" group in the hall added a whole level of exercise to their task, undertaking the lunge and squirt method of floor cleaning. There was lots of laughter and lots of tasks were completed saving Chris 18+ hours of work, so he was very grateful for our help!

We headed back north to the community centre, some of the Southsea lot split off, while the rest headed back to take part in a fitness session of squats, glute exercises, press ups, rows and single leg squats.

Another wonderful Wednesday!

Don't forget there is a community mission on Thursday evening and the Southsea Parkrun takeover on Saturday morning where many familiar faces will be volunteering and donning our red t-shirts! All the listings can be found here

Hope to see you soon!


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Wed 19th Feb 2020 at 10:18pm

Lunge and squirt was followed by the equally effective, 'bend and squirt'. Had so much fun tonight!

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