Tuesday 7th January 2020
Report written by Sam Ollason
On the first run of the 2020 and of the decade GoodGym Bath ran to help out St John's Court, a sheltered living space in Bath. We had 15 runners volunteer their Tuesday evening to help take down and tidy away Christmas decorations. We finished early and went for a run around Victoria Park, making a total of 4.4km distance ran. Not bad for a January!
Welcome, Majid!
We met at the leisure centre, as we always do, at 6.15pm and welcomed a new runner, Majid, to the group. Majid spotted us before Christmas in our red t-shirts, proving that wearing the red tops proudly is the best form of advertising! Thanks for coming along last night, Majid, and we hope you will come and join us again soon.
Latest GoodGym news
Before we started I shared the latest news with everyone:
On to the task!
It was only a short run last night along the river Avon to St John's Court. We have helped them several times before with tasks like painting benches and garden furniture. In December we put up Christmas decorations for the Resident's Association around their communal spaces. Lots of the residents aren't able enough to take down the decorations and the staff and volunteers don't have the time to do it, so we came along and gave a helping hand!
We split into small groups to take down the festivities. There were teams wrestling Christmas trees into boxes, reaching up high to taken down hanging decorations and wrapping up long lines of beads. We then formed a chain and stored all of the boxes and bags upstairs for next year. Once we finished we gave the communal areas a good hoovering to clear up the explosion of glitter and pine needles that we left behind in our wake! We reset the main cafe area and got it ready for the coffee morning that is being hosted on Wednesday. Good work GoodGym!
We really got stuck into the task at hand and we ended up finishing much earlier than expected. What a credit to a good turnout and a great attitude! To make use of the leftover time I led the runners on a loop up to Bath's beautiful Royal Crescent and through Victoria Park. We are really lucky to be able to enjoy these fantastic sights on demand!
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who came along and made last night a success. Thanks in particular to the team at St John's who hosted us for the task and thanks to Rachel for backmarking for us!
Thu 9th Jan 2020 at 1:47pm
I was great to see the lovely people who live in the housing development looking happy. I thought it was cute that they made us drinks and left out some brownies for us. :) (Good job, Majid! Hope to see you again.)
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Removing burden of de-christmasing from the residents