I’m board of all these games…let’s just have some good clean fun!

19 Goodgymers helped their local community in Swindon
Paul Bonner
Helen Saville
Mike Oakes
Emma Sperring
STUART KINGSLEY
Jo O'Leary
Kay Scarrott
Tracy Kingsley
Richard Curtis
Jason Higgs
Lily
Andrew Pitts
Tracey C
Sam Coxon
Hannah Garraway
David Garraway
Jake
Jaime Wesemael
Sarah Quinn
1 / 23
Swindon

Tuesday 28th January 2020

Credits
Mike Oakes
Mike Oakes

REPORT WRITER

Emma Sperring
Emma Sperring

PHOTOGRAPHER

Jo O'Leary
Jo O'Leary

BACK MARKER

Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis

SESSION ORGANISER

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Mike Oakes

Share the love

This week, we scrabbled together a team of 19 great GoodGym’ers to clean a kitchen and sort some board games!

This week’s achievements:

  • Welcome along to Sarah for her first GoodGym Swindon task

  • Congratulations to Jo for the unveiling of her shiny new 50 good deeds black t-shirt

  • Well done to everyone at GoodGym for completing the January challenge of 8,000 Good Deeds, and 10,0000km in January – 113 deeds and over 1,700 of which were from Swindonian GoodGym’ers!

Before we left the Oasis, this week’s icebreaker was in honour of the late Nicholas Parsons, who presented ‘Just a Minute’ on Radio 4 well into his 90’s. We shared who was the most inspiring older person we had worked or volunteered with.

This was an icebreaker that really provoked some interesting and poignant stories. These were a real mix of fondly remembered family members and friends who worked to a ripe age before sadly passing away, to inspiring tales of people still actively contributing to parkrun, their workplace, or charities into their 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 100’s!

Inspired by these tales, we were soon off running and chatting, although maybe not through 'Manningtree' (Mannington Rec) marshes as per Rector Run Leader Richard’s original route!

We arrived at Toothill Farmhouse, and split into two groups. But this was no trivial pursuit – team 1 sorted a heap of board games, while team 2 gave the kitchen a winter spring clean.

Need a cluedo of who did what?! Was it Mr White in the kitchen with the fairy liquid… or did he have a monopoly on mug cleaning?

We soon had the kitchen spic and span, and the games shifted and sorted, not to mention our hot drinks quaffed, and biccies bitten.

Back at the Oasis, we shared what’s coming soon!

Next week’s Group Run we’re painting and DIY’ing for Men in Sheds @ Chippenham Close Community Centre. Sign up here!

We’re also on the lookout for Run Report Writers. We have a small team, and we could do with two or three more to help out. Is this something YOU could help with? It doesn't take up much of your time and can be as short or as long as you like! You also don't need be an English Literature Expert to write our reports; anything goes at GoodGym. Please come forward and help out!

Also, how about an Easter Social. What should we do, where should we go? Any ideas – get in touch in the comments!


This task supported
Toothill Farmhouse Junior Youth Club
Youth Club for children and young people aged 5-15 years

Toothill Farmhouse Junior Youth Club offers a range of supervised activities for children aged 5-15 years on Tuesday and Friday evenings. The club is organised by volunteers who need a helping hand to maintain the Farmhouse both indoors and outdoors.

See more

Discuss this report
Emma Sperring

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 11:58am

Loving the Board Game ♟puns Mike! Well done - another excellent report from you! 😊👍

STUART KINGSLEY
STUART KINGSLEY (He, him, his)

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 12:48pm

Another great group run - another clean fridge :)

Jo O'Leary

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 8:14pm

Fab report Mike! 👏👏

Helen Saville

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 8:24pm

Youre the king of puns!!

Lily

Thu 30th Jan 2020 at 11:12pm

Yay 😀 so funny 😂 great job Mike 😁

Mike Oakes

Fri 31st Jan 2020 at 9:47pm

Thanks all! 😁

Join us on our next session