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Tower Hamlets
📍441 Bethnal Green Road E2 0AN
Join us for a social in Bethnal Green
Thu 7th Nov at 7:00am
Area Activator Simon will be leading a monthly early morning group run!
Read moreMon 4th Nov at 7:00pm
It's our November visit to Hollybush Gardens!
Read moreMon 28th Oct at 6:35pm
Tower Hamlets Report written by Chris Burns
This evening, the GoodGym team met in Limehouse, ready to make a difference both indoors and outdoors with Ocean Youth Connexions at the Tower Hamlets Community Transport Hub.
After a short sharp workout in neighbouring Kings Wharf park, we headed over the road for tonight’s briefing.
Our tasks tonight were to clear the outside area of leaves, and start the painting inside the new offices.
We divided into two teams and got to work.
Team Paintbrush focused on the inside, adding a fresh coat of paint to brighten up the space for everyone who uses it. The team strategically navigated high walls and low skirting boards, aiming to cover as much in the short time we were there as possible.
Outside, Team Leaf tackled a thick layer of fallen leaves, raking and bagging to make the area safer and more welcoming. They covered the entire outdoor yard area, and the minibus area, but not for long: GoodGymers blitzed after bag and bag, pausing only to head upstairs for more bin liners.
We finished in two waves (apologies for the small group photo), with Team Paintbrush waiting until every last drop of emulsion was used before gathering dust sheets and brushes and ensuring the place was left as we found it.
We all left with a great sense of accomplishment, excited to be returning on the 25th November.
Sun 27th Oct at 2:00pm
Tower Hamlets Report written by Emma (She/they/them)
Four intrepid GoodGymers joined Mags and Ash for two hours in the Rocky Park garden and made impressive work in emptying two raised beds and freeing lots of potatoes. Spades in hand, we made short work of filling numerous enormous sacks with earth. Most impressive of all was Kitty, Lucinda and Oliver managing to empty a whole bed. Well done, guys!
We were delighted to be joined by Wicket and Basil who helped keep us all entertained. We’ll be joining Mags and Ash on the Hollybush Estate on Monday, 4th November.
Sun 27th Oct at 8:32pm
Well done people. Glad to hear Oliver did a great job this time 😃
Sun 27th Oct at 2:00pm
Mon 28th Oct at 6:35pm
It's back to see Kamal for an indoor painting task!
Read moreTuesday 22nd October
Lucinda completed 25 good deeds with GoodGym.
Lucinda has already done 25 good deeds with GoodGym. Instead of doing anything else, they've used their run to go and help people that need their help; digging, lifting, scraping, clearing, planting and weeding. Stuff that makes this a better place to be.
Mon 21st Oct at 7:00pm
Tower Hamlets Report written by Laura Williams
It was our October visit to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park this evening, which is always good fun.
At our last visit in September, we'd raked hay and grass around gravestones and monuments close to the entrance of the park.
Tonight, Park Manager Ken's plan was for us to plant crocus and camassia bulbs around this area, to produce an array of colour by the Spring.
With everyone arriving close to 7pm, we were ready to head to the well stocked tool shed shortly after, to grab trowels and barrows, bulbs and gloves.
We welcomed Sal to his first GoodGym session, and grabbed head torches and lights for the ground.
Making our way to tonight's spot, Ken proceeded to tell us a little bit about the area of the park, the purpose of our planting mission and the best planting know-how.
Wasting no time, the team divided into small teams, taking care to cover the entire area, distributing both types of bulb evenly. Returning to the wheelbarrows to restock buckets and occasionally relocate to a new planting spot, as always, the time flew.
Several broken trowels - and one spectacular pun - later we were calling it a night.
Wandering back to the Soanes Centre and tool shed, we concluded it had been a handy little upper body workout, and that we're looking forward to returning later in the Autumn.
Another fun night in the borough - well done team, and a big shout-out to Lucinda for this evening's pretty awesome pun.
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