Can't Stop The Croc 🐊
7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Islington
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Monday 15th August 2022
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5 Goodgym runners Simon, Hanry, Claire, Josh and Natasha caught up outside the Arsenal Community Hub on a hot Monday evening, with thunder clouds overhead. We began our session with a traditional count-off (name, number and favourite Sunday morning breakfast). Our top responses tended to involve eggs (scrambled or poached or fried), or some delicious overnight oats mixed with fruit. Certainly some great suggestions to take on board! After a warm up involving muscle activations and dynamic movements, we ran approximately 1.4 miles to meet Miriam in the lovely Cally Park.
We caught up with Alison, Caitlin and Nurjehan just near Tolpuddle Café before beginning our mission for the evening. Our team were separated up into three groups. Group 1 took charge of clearing up an unofficial dumping site on the North East of the park- clearing away glass and debris from an area directly in contact with a children's playground. Group 2 took on the mantle for filling up top soil and transporting the donated supplies over across Europe. Group 3 were tasked with moving some of the bumps within the part to one location, and to make a series of small bike jumps in the shape of a crocodile (or Nessy as Caitlin suggested) for locals to enjoy.
Within 40 minutes, we had made a great amount of progress on these listed projects, and Miriam was thrilled with our collaborative endeavours!
NEWS
Elizabeth House Food Hub Summer Holiday Deliveries
On Tuesday 16th August, Roshni and the lovely crew at Elizabeth House Food Hub will be preparing a full collection of shopping and essentials for families and vulnerable people in the Arsenal and Highbury boroughs. We will be on hand to help with delivering these by foot or by bike.
Sign up here to get involved:
We will be back on Tuesday 23rd August as well:
Caledonian Park Junior parkrun
Area Activator Simon and task owner Miriam will be volunteering to help at Caledonian Park junior parkrun on Sunday morning this week.
A lovely free weekly timed 2km running event for 4-14 year olds, where they can run independently or with the help of their parents. Always followed by coffee at the Tolpuddle Café afterwards!
Sign up here:
CREOS (Crouch End Open Space) August Work Day
This Sunday 21st August, Area Activator Simon and the Friends of Crouch End Open Space will be hosting one of our favourite community missions (one of our longest running in the Islington borough).
From 11-1pm, local volunteers and the team from The Conservation Volunteers group will be helping to maintain and build the forest paths between Highgate Woods and Crouch End, ready for the community to use.
Usually followed by a lovely picnic!
Sign up here to get involved:
https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/crouch-end-open-space-creos-volunteering-day-august-2022
This task supported
The Friends maintain and care for key areas of the park; represent park users, and help protect the amenities and wildlife of the park.
The Friends maintain and care for the two wildlife gardens to the north-west corner of the park, the community orchard at the south-west of the field; help tend the raised square beds at the South gate, and also plant bulbs and flowers around the park!
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Mon 15th Aug 2022 at 10:32pm
Aligator - Crocodile - Nessy - take your pick. What a hidden gem of a park. I like discovering new places. Thank you Simon.
Tue 16th Aug 2022 at 9:23am
Was nice to see a new place and meet new people. I enjoyed the rain shower too. I'm a bit confused that I received an e-mail to say I didn't attend, did I not register correctly?
Tue 16th Aug 2022 at 9:44am
Hi Claire. I'm not sure what's happening here- I will contact the tech team about this. Nothing wrong from your side!
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