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9 Goodgymers helped their local community in Waltham Forest
Kevin Palmer
Francis Bradley
Ant Withstandley
Carmen Kearney
Clara Breakwell
Jim Shreim
Ruari Rhodes
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Waltham Forest

Wednesday 20th February 2019

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Let's kick off proceeding with a bit of news

If you are interested in participating in Missions or Coach Runs with GoodGym Waltham Forest, you need to get verified. Sign up to the doc check here

We are always on the lookout for new tasks for our Wednesday night runs. If you know of a local charity or community group that could use our help they can request a task here, or they can contact me directly on [anthony@goodgym.org]

There is a long run happening in South London this Sunday morning. More details and sign-up here

Okay on with the evening's activities.

We were delighted to welcome GoodGym first timer Ruari along tonight. Great to meet you Ruari thanks to you and all of tonight's hard-working volunteers for your contributions. And what a contribution everyone made; in our continuing mission to boldly make Waltham Forest even better than it already is, we were back at St Mary's Church. Our mission, to clean and tidy the decaying autumnal leaves from outside of the Welcome Centre and to transport some barrowfuls of compost a long distance from the compost heap in the churchyard to a lovely community garden on Prospect Hill.

After filling a pair of enormous sacks with a few 100 kilos of leaves and transporting a similar quantity of compost one may have felt rest was in order. Nothing doing I’m afraid it was straight into a drill set with three times three sets of slow, medium and fast laps to get the heart racing. Some excellent running form on show from all participants and with that it was downhill and back to Mirth to indulge in some delightful cakes supplied by the lovely Clara.

Excellent work everyone, I hope you can make next week’s run to Willow Brook Primary School. More details and sign-up here

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The churchyard contains numerous interesting graves and four listed tombs, and is divided into four railed and enclosed areas with public access to only two; it is bisected by paths which are in frequent public use. There are some 1300 visible monuments in and around the church, and it is thought that over 26,000 burials took place here. The first church of St Mary Walthamstow was founded in the early-12th century on the site of an older church. The current building is largely 16th-century with later alterations. The timber-framed Ancient House near the church probably stands on the site of the original Manor of Walthamstow.

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