Mauricio Garcia

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Brighton

Passionate about community and fitness.I love the idea of combining exercise and meaningful social impact.


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TAKE PART: Summer Spruce Up at Wellsbourne Community Garden
🗓Tuesday 1st July 6:15pm

📍Queen Victoria Statue, Victoria Gardens, 1 Marlborough Pl, BN1 1UB

It will make the garden more welcoming to visitors and look lovely for our party

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) been cheered 10 times. 🥇

Thursday 26th June

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) been cheered 10 times.

Goodgymers have noticed what Mauricio has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Mauricio.

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) went on a group run

Tue 24th Jun at 6:15pm

Change, Grow, Live

Brighton Report written by STEFANIA ROSSO (she/her)

Change (the garden) Grow (some vegetables) Life (enjoy it)

That’s what eight GoodGymers did this week, at Change Grow Life in Richmond House. We removed bind weeds and brambles to shape the ground of what will become a green oasis for gardening activities and growing vegetables.

Change Grow Live (CGL) offers support services to help people make positive changes in their lives, including help with substance misuse, mental health, and social challenges. They also have a gardening project where they are creating a new garden space, potentially aimed at providing therapeutic or social support through gardening as a tool to help people make positive changes in their lives. This could involve creating new garden spaces, growing vegetables, offering gardening activities as part of their support programs, or collaborating with other organizations to promote gardening for wellbeing.

With this social mission GoodGym Brighton also helped CGL to get ready for the memorial service that they hold annually on National Remembrance Day, which is the last Friday in July, to honour those who have lost their lives to drug and alcohol addiction. In 2025, this falls on July 25th. The garden might not be fully ready by then, but it shows some flourishing plants that were hidden by the brambles until now.

This was a very satisfying social mission!

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Tue 15th Jul at 6:00pm

Eco therapeutic action in Stanmer Park

Supporting the users of an outdoor eco-therapy venue

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) went on a group run

Tue 17th Jun at 6:00pm

Breaking the ties that bind

Brighton Report written by STEFANIA ROSSO (she/her)

"The bindweed roots pierce down/ Deeper than men do lie" (Walter de la Mare)

Following an already legendary mission at The Bevy which saw the gang split into idyllic orchard/ pungent backyard areas resonant of heaven/ hell, this week GoodGym Brighton looked forward to all the carefree associations that a bed of roses might suggest in sunny Portslade. However, the latest challenge was no walkover, instead the sisyphean task of removing bindweed, whose rope-like roots can plunge 4m deep, from an attractive rose plot in local open-space gem Vale Park.

No number of hurdles, including sharp thorns, stinging nettles and even an errant deadly nightshade, could deter the vigour of the GoodGym gang's gardening or dim the volume of its high-tempo zeitgeisty chatter. Lucy, from Friends of Vale Park, heralded the group 'angels' and bestowed ice pops in orange, lemon and pink flavours. Meanwhile, the group applauded Olivia's recent milestone of 50 good deeds, and finally celebrated with a collective vertical leap, appropriate in a week when GoodGym founder Ivo Gormley is featuring at a B2B event called Elevate, exploring the link between "physical activity, community connection, and climate action".

Friends of Vale Park is a recently-formed community organisation in Portslade, keen to improve and use the park for the benefit of the local neighbourhood and residents. Formerly a hazardous flint pit and training ground for soldiers in WW1, Vale Park is now a popular leafy space with outdoor exercise facilities, scout hut and book swap chest, and events run by the Friends include an Easter egg hunt, a pumpkin carving workshop and picnics in the park.

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) signed up to a group run.

Tue 24th Jun at 6:15pm

TAKE PART: Create a new garden space

Help Richmond House to create a therapeutic green oasis

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Mauricio Garcia
Mauricio Garcia (he /him) signed up to a group run.

Tue 1st Jul at 6:15pm

TAKE PART: Summer Spruce Up at Wellsbourne Community Garden

It will make the garden more welcoming to visitors and look lovely for our party

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Mauricio Garcia
Mauricio Garcia (he /him) signed up to a group run.

Tue 17th Jun at 6:00pm

Rose bed weeding in Vale Park

To keep a much loved and well used local park looking beautiful and cared for

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) been Mission Verified. 😎

Tuesday 10th June

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) been Mission Verified.

Congratulations to Mauricio who is now Mission Verified. They're now ready to start running GoodGym missions to help older people and running alone to community mission. Give Mauricio a cheer to kickstart their mission running career.

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🥇

Tuesday 10th June

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Mauricio is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.

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Mauricio Garcia (he /him) went on a group run

Tue 10th Jun at 6:15pm

A bevy at the Bevy having a bevvy

Brighton Report written by Brighton runner

On a gently sunny evening, a veritable bevy of Brighton GoodGymers (including a warm welcome to new recruit Mauricio) turned their attention to a regular venue on the GoodGym roster, The Bevy, a community pub/hub, familiar to some as the go-to breakfast venue after the formidably hilly Bevendean Down parkrun. The journey for many involved a 3.5km trot up Lewes Road (allegedly the longest named road in Brighton & Hove), to complete gardening and clearance tasks.

One cohort of the GoodGym team were assigned to the Bevy's allotment, tending to a variety of fruit trees and vegetable patches, weeding and planting the likes of kale, beans and rhubarb. Meanwhile the other contingent tackled a backyard area, hacking away unruly bushes and brambles, and ridding the area of fallen leaves, mounds of soil, buckets of stagnant water and abandoned paraphernalia. As well as finding a rusty electrical device reminiscent of a ghost trap from Ghostbusters, there was under an old beer keg the discovery of a slow worm, the UK's only legless lizard, and apparently a relatively frequent visitor to the Bevy's undergrowth.

Following the transformation of the allotment and backyard, Dave, Shirley and Warren from the Bevy committee were impressed, with one commenting that the outcome of the group's work was "like Christmas", a nod perhaps to GoodGym's predominantly red and white wardrobe. The group was rewarded with an array of tasty snacks from the Bevy kitchen, including cheese scones and Eccles cakes.

The Bevy, for now over a decade, is proudly the only community owned pub on an estate in the UK, keen to support its local neighbourhood amidst cost-of-living challenges. A busy calendar of events for June includes a music and memory cafe for those with dementia, a disability disco, seniors lunch clubs, family days with creative activities for children, and a summer beach party to close the month.

The GoodGym team is happy to support such a cherished community venue, and as the sun set on another completed mission a small Taskforce group duly took the opportunity to visit the Bevy bar, order a glass of the usual, and sketch out its own summer party plans.

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