Time flies when you are selling fun

Our second stop on the tour with Your Voice, Your Town to promote GoodGym Ealing took us to a well-known venue: the William Hobbayne Community Centre, the home of one of the oldest charities (we learned it is in the top 10!) in the UK. We met June and many other familiar faces from the Hobbayne Charity, Hanwell Hootie and Hanwell Carnival.

Our table was placed in the room adjoining the main hall, unfortunately not in the main hall itself, but June made sure we were at the stall that would be visible from the main hall, and not around the corner. Kash continued the makeshift decorations tradition and created a More fun this way sign to attach in front of the entrance to the small room where we were stationed. After all, we had been told we were colourful and lively, so our job was to lure more visitors that way.

Since the Wednesday night event in Ealing Broadway, we have boosted our cardboard box displays with previously loose photos and upgraded the rules of our darts game to enable more prizes to be won and more thought-provoking questions answered.

As it was a weekend day, we had hoped for more residents to show up and learn about GoodGym's work. Instead, it was more of an opportunity to meet the representatives of other charities and community organisations - potential task owners?

The event ended with an unexpected, very short but energetic dance party which brought smiles to people's faces and got the bodies moving. Let's see if the Acton gig will have an equally wild element to it!