This morning we teamed up with the City of Birmingham Striders to do a joint takeover at Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun. Miriam took the role of Timekeeper while Amy and Eve were on Finish Token duty. Everyone did a cracking job and the the participants really appreciated the efforts on a cold Saturday morning!

It was a chilly yet buzzing morning at Edgbaston Reservoir parkrun as we came together for a COBS and GoodGym takeover!

RD Liam had plenty of volunteers so some of us even got to pair up! Eve and Miriam kept the funnel under control, Balal was a pro at barcode scanning and Amy ran it with Luka the dog, while Annie rang the parkrun bell for runners alongside Taj from COBS!

A special mention to our wonderful Annie, a GG Brum OG who has reached her 100th (logged) good deed!

We all enjoyed some sweets and flapjacks to celebrate! 😊

Amy and I helped sort out the room but he needs to get another two metal garage shelves to store the rest of the plates etc so they are no longer a fire hazard. I biked to the task rather than ran.

Tonight 5 GoodGymers undertook a super sorting shift at Narthex's Clothes Bank.

Rose was very organised and efficient and had a list of jobs for us to assist with upon arrival.

This included sorting through winter clothes and taking them upstairs. Miriam and Amy W were largely upstairs dealing with this and generally doing a fantastic job at organising this area, as can be seen in the photos.

Amy H did a great job at sorting through and hanging out clothes which are to be sold at the upcoming clothes sale, which will raise much needed funds for their foodbank and money advice service. This is taking place this Friday (11/08/23) and there is still time to assist with the sale itself - you can sign up at: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/narthex-big-birmingham-vintage-pre-loved-charity-sale.

Rose and I sorted through some clothes, before later focusing on clearing some pallets which involved going through lots of empty cardboard boxes to decide whether to keep or discard them.

We were able to get through lots of work and, as they say, many hands make light work. We look forward to returning again soon.

With tonight's pun i'm sure you can guess it was a pretty wet run!

We headed to the canal and still did our good deed, filling two bags full of rubbish.

Once done we headed along the canal then back via Aston Uni and back through the town to 1000 Trades, all pretty soaked, but a nice 5k chalked off :)