14 GoodGymers ran 5km and helped Origin Housing clear a park!

Thank you for coming along guys, on a surprisingly warm January evening we were all a little over dressed for the evenings activities. Welcome to Iain (not Owen) whose first time it was tonight - lovely to have you along!

In the news this week:

1. We have a new taskforce in Islington - Steve Lee, Alix Guerber, James Gilbert and Steve Coman (who is continuing for a second term). These guys help me out and keep GG Islington growing.
2. We've decided that on the first Monday of the each month we'll be heading to the pub - so on 5th February we'll head to the pub after the group run - come along!

After an active warm up with dynamic stretches we headed into the night to do some good for our local community. The task this week, helping Origin House, was TOO close so we decided to head to Highbury Fields to do a lap before heading along Tollington Road to an area of houses tucked away between Finsbury Park and the railway tracks.

New gloves!

Upon arriving we met Kamisha from Origin Housing. She explained that this amazing charity provides social housing, support and services for various communities across Islington and London. Our task tonight was to help clear out an unused park so the local residents under Origin Housing can use it in the future.

Armed with freshly new gloves and bags we got into pairs and spread across the park collecting up debris, leaves and weeds. Over 30 minutes we got great work done, with Julia tackling some thorny bushes, James & Steve re-creating a pathway and us overall packing up 15 bags of leaves and weeds! Nice one!

Custard Creams PLEASE!

Once we'd handed out the ever important custard creams we took a group picture. Saying our goodbyes to Kamisha we headed back to the Emirates stadium for a stairs workout and fartlek (using the letters as our markers for pace).

We'll be back to helping Origin Housing next week at this project - armed with tools we'll cut things back, empty the flower beds and turn over the soil. Sign up here

PB out.