We Offered Help And They Didn't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth

12 Goodgymers helped their local community in Waltham Forest
Jennie Matuszek
Francis Bradley
Ant Withstandley
Pippa Higgins
Ercole Marco Lugari
Jade Crossland
Alex Hughes
Kirsty Jones
Ayanna Felician
Niamh Reid
1 / 14
Waltham Forest

Wednesday 20th June 2018

Credits
Ant Withstandley
Ant Withstandley

SESSION ORGANISER

REPORT WRITER

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Ant Withstandley

Share the love

One of the features that makes London such a great city are its fabulous parks. Vicky, Regents, Greenwich, Hyde and co. are magnificent places to chill out, run, walk, picnic and people watch. However, none of them quite match the rambling wildness of Walthamstow Marshes in the Lower Lee Valley, where the intrepid GoodGym Waltham Forest crew set out for on tonight's mission.

The 3.5k run to task built the anticipation as the urban cityscape gives way to surroundings that you would usually see in the countryside, arriving at our destination, grabbing gloves, bags and litter pickers while the horses of the Lee Valley riding school looked on with inscrutable expressions.

As usual, this professional hit squad of task completing professionals made a flying start and began filling their bags with the unsightly litter that was blotting the landscape. A special welcome to new recruit Niamh and thanks to recruiting Sargent Jade for finding such a capable addition to our group.

With our work completed it was time to head back to base and we decided to split the group with one group taking the even more scenic 4k route via the Wetlands but we all eventually made it back to Mirth, Marvel and Maud for some stretching and refreshments.

Excellent work today everyone, you can sleep in the knowledge that Waltham Forest and the world in general is a better place, thanks to you.

I misinformed you all about next week's tasks when I said we were heading to Chingford Memorial Park. That beauty will be on 4th of July, but next week we will be heading to everyone's favourite community cafe The Mill for some gardening, cleaning and painting sign-up here

Peace, Ant ☮️


This task supported
Lee Valley Park
For Nature, Sport and Discovery

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority runs award winning open spaces and sports venues along the 26 mile long, 10,000 acre park. The park was created by a unique Act of Parliament as a “green lung” for London, Essex and Hertfordshire.

See more

Discuss this report
Join us on our next session

Waltham Forest

Help out at Walthamstow Toy Library
🗓Thursday 16th January 2025 6:30pm

Support the Toy Library, which provides invaluable support to families in our local area

Sarah Whitehouse
2 GoodGymers are going