Flyering high!
8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Cardiff
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Wednesday 29th January 2020
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What a month we have had! One of the final last tasks of this jampacked good deed month was flyering for the opening of the new vamped Grange Pavilion!
Like normal GG runners, we got to work and split into teams to post flyers through the local community's post boxes to let them know what was in store in their area. Within no time at all, we had already posted all the flyers we had in our hands (I will admit it almost did not feel right without a litter pick at the ready!).
We congratulated ourselves with how much we had achieved this month, how we had exceeded our GGC&V target, the amount of runners who took part and how many people and communities we had helped out in just 31 days! Its amazing what can be done with lots of motivation and some running legs.
Every runner should pat themselves on the back with the amount they have pulled off!
We finished the evening just like any GG runner task ends, at the pub with cheers and friends.
This task supported
Making Grangetown an even better place from the Grange Pavilion located in Grange Gardens by Transforming the closed bowls pavilion into a new social hub for the community.
It’s been five years since a group of Grangetown residents began talking about a café and a space for community activities in Grange Gardens. After thousands of volunteer hours talking to Grangetown residents, running events in the Grange Pavilion, and creating a partnership between the Grange Pavilion Project, Grangetown Community Action and Cardiff University’s Community Gateway, the Pavilion was temporarily renovated and re-opened at the 2016 Grangetown Festival. Since then, regular activities suggested by Grangetown residents, such as Homework clubs, a Youth Forum, ESOL classes, a community garden, mental health peer support, a Tech café, arts therapy, the Friends and Neighbours group, cricket and football training with peer mentoring, and play sessions, as well as one off and annual events including a Community Iftar, a Winter Fayre, and Love Grangetown, have helped bring the Pavilion to life.
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