33 Fox employees ran 5km to do a river clean up - helping London Sports Trust, Active 360 and Drink Water Campaign

Thank you all for coming along and experiencing GoodGym as part of your Impact Week 21CF. Our aim is to do good and get fit at the same time - you definitely did that!

So a bit about GoodGym, Ivo Gormley founded this wonderful charity nearly nine years ago for people to do good and get fit! Our mission is to help our communities with physical tasks and reduce loneliness through projects with older persons. There are three ways of doing good with us:

1. First way is a group run, which you went on last night. As a group we meet in 45 areas around the UK on a weekly basis, we run to local charity do something physical for 30 minutes and run back.
2. Missions - these are one off and happen with 2-4 people, the idea is to help older persons in their home with something like setting up a hospital bed, moving furniture or gardening.
3. Coach Running - this is where you go visit an old isolated person once a week to have a chat and keep them company. Back to yesterday, we met on a beautifully sunny morning in Hammersmith, after our intro and warm up we headed to the river. Meeting Sam and Paul at the slipway they had all the tools ready for us.

Introducing themselves first off Paul explained how Active 360 aims to reduce plastic and waste in the Thames, while In the Drink Project aims to educate people and businesses at the source to not throw away single plastic cups or anything else into the river. Sam introduced London Sports Trust, an organisation that aims to get more adults and children involved in water sports, they unfortunately come across lots of litter during their activities so get involved in clean ups.

Armed with litter picks, latex gloves and heavy duty bags everyone split into teams and started picking. Initially the entire group started off on the slipway, giving it a deep clean and finding a couple of phones!

Next splitting into smaller groups the team made their way along the shoreline and under the bridge. The litter here seemed endless and everyone did a great job picking it up.

In over an hour we bagged up 15 bags of litter and made a huge impact to our community. That's over 30 hours of work done right there - wow!

Fox File

After taking a group picture we headed along the river for our run, some conditioning exercises and the inaugural Fox File - awesome! Everyone ran 5km and a splitter group run even more which is great. Well done!

Enjoy your last GoodGym run/walk tomorrow and join Hammersmith Goodgym on Tuesday nights here.

PB out

28 Fox runners tackled a monster 9k run to help a community garden in Ladbroke Grove as part of 21CF Impact week!

The Sun was our and smiles were all about the wonderful Fox runners as they tackled challenging 9k run along West London’s streets.

With everyone focused on the tasks ahead we warmed up with a dynamic mob street dynamic stretch and muscle activation before weaving our way North along the quieter back streets to Ladbroke Grove.

Everybody working hard and enjoying the chance for a sunshine filled adventure, making steady progress to the community Garden.

Meeting Lisa and Martin who oversee around 70 community gardens in the borough. We had plenty to do!! A very keep and dedicated group set to work on constructing a mini shed/lock box to house the tools and equipment needed to maintain the garden up to the high standards we left it in. Lots of team work and careful instruction reading/following was the order of the day. Piece by piece, screw by screw the shed cane to life and will be a vital Piece of getting the community garden to thieve in the coming months!!

The rest of the Crew were hard at work! Filling a van full of heavy duty rubbish including BBQ’s, lumps of wood and chunks of metal frame. Clearing the patio path of all weeds and grass that was poking through. Cutting back all the overgrown shrubs and in clearing all the flower beds!!

With the garden looking stunning after 35 minutes of non stop action we began the run back with a Spring in our steps!! Picking up the pace at the front it was great to see everyone dig in to complete a really strong 2 hours of physical activity!!

Hope you enjoyed the session and go well in the rest of impact week.

Smooth Running

Joel