Ghosts of Christmas Past
25 GoodGymers made their way 6.0km to help their local community in Tower Hamlets.
- Monday, 11th of January 2016
- Led by Laura Williams
Tower Hamlets celebrated the end of Christmas in charitable style this week. When our planned task was cancelled, Tom discovered that the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park wanted discarded Christmas trees to make an area for wildlife to enjoy. This request turned into an unconventional but really fun night with fourteen trees in total taken from pavements, front yards and kerbsides. We carried these trees to the Cemetery Park and made our way through the spooky maze of gravestones to drop them off.
Our route home included hill sprints and three different paced groups running back so that there was something for everyone.
I only wish we were going to be there to see the park ranger's face tomorrow morning when they realise they've been visited by the Goodgym post-Christmas angels!
Gabrielle.
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I love Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park! And Christmas trees - wish I'd been there.
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