Nivi Bhide


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Nivi Bhide went on a community mission

Wed 7th Aug at 7:00pm

This was no picnic!

Windsor and Maidenhead Report written by Jess Smith

10 Goodgymmers ran, walked and cycled their way to the beautiful Ray Mill Island on the shores of the Thames to help the Friends of Ray Mill Island sand picnic benches.

This fantastic new community group have taken on the task of looking after Ray Mill Island to help provide a more welcoming area for visitors. Goodgym have previsouly helped to paint the toilet block so a new mural can be painted to cheer the area up. Tonight the group were tasked with sanding the picnic benches to prepare them for a coat of varnish. This will help to maintain them and ensure they last for longer for people to enjoy.

We met task owner Nivi and other members of the Friends of Ray Mill Island group including new Goodgym recruit Dionne! (Welcome!. We were handed sandpaper and blocks and set to work. Although this sounds a simple task, it was no picnic. A great arm workout was in store and the benches began to spring into life.

After and hour of sanding and chatting 9 benches were ready for a new coat of varnish.

A Goodgym task would not be complete without a little fitness session. Tara had joined us and led us through a standing yoga session. This was a calming end to the evening in a quiet corner of Maidenhead.

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Amy L
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Nivi Bhide went on a group run

Wed 19th Jun at 6:45pm

A Loo worthy of The Louvre

Windsor and Maidenhead Report written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner

No man is an island…but Ray Mill is one! We were excited to head to an arty task for our Wednesday night session this week, supporting newly-formed community project Friends of Ray Mill Island.

Our mission was to help volunteers from the project to paint the back wall of the island’s toilet block white. This provides a blank canvas for artist Virginie Colin, who will be creating a beautiful mural celebrating the diverse wildlife in the surrounding area.

In the glorious evening sunshine we were soon on a roll-er, and we enjoyed hearing more about the Friends’ plans for the island. As well as the painters, Diya, Kanika and Sara got to work on sanding down some benches that were in need of a bit of TLC. And a big shout out to Adam and Nivi, who arrived early and did some hedge trimming too.

A warm welcome to Julie, who joined us for the first time this evening and did a great job as part of the painting team.

If you’d like to find out more about what the Friends have planned, there is a Community Open Day on the island from 3-7pm on Sunday 23 June.

We can’t wait to see Virginie’s amazing artwork unveiled and follow the progress of this project.

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Amy L
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Nivi Bhide went on a group run

Wed 28th Feb at 6:45pm

Quad Squad Gets Stuffed

Windsor and Maidenhead Report written by Amy L (she/her)

Happy bird-day to us! This week marks 4 years since we launched GoodGym in Windsor and Maidenhead and it was brilliant to see a record number of GoodGym chicks and chaps at our celebratory group run/party. This evening's brood included 25 of us, the biggest number since launch night back in 2020.

Our evening was a fun mix of team games and an eggcellent task: filling knitted chicks and bunnies with chocolate eggs for Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Services' Easter fundraising campaign. As one GoodGymer from team 'Diya's Darlings' put it, we helped with 'reverse births for our four birthdays'!

A warm welcome to Didem and Amy, who were joining us for the first time. I warned them at the start that this 'group run' might not be 100% representative of our typical Wednesday evening, but maybe it was the perfect introduction to the weird and wonderful stuff we get up to?

There was loads of laughter, silliness and cheering, we did some walking and running round the park, we used litter pickers and hoops, hi vis and gardening gloves (in our relay game) and there was a lot of chocolate (although this time we didn't eat it as was part of the task). With many hands we blitzed the task super quick and made a difference for a local charity. There was also quite a lot of fancy dress and a healthy dose of competitive spirit.

Just a 'normal' GoodGym session then!

Something we don't normally do at GoodGym is have epic games of GoodGym themed Pictionary or 'Guess the GoodGym beneficiary' quizzes, which we did enjoy last night. However these games gave us plenty of opportunity to share stories about what we've been doing for the last 4 years, so hopefully it was a nice overview for newcomers as well as an opportunity for everyone else to reminisce.

The chick stuffing task was a cracking task, partly thanks to task owner Yazmin being so organised and bringing everything to the community centre for us, and partly because the chicks and bunnies were SO CUTE! Huge kudos to the army of skilled crafters, including a team of GoodGymers, who made these little characters.

Now you shouldn't count your chickens, but we couldn't play 'guess the number of chicks' without a count, so Yazmin and I risked it. The grand total was 356, which is worth a fantastic £1068 to the charity.

At the end of the evening I tallied up all the points from the various games and the final scoreboard read:

2 Awesome for this 30 points (although I regret not awarding Jess points for her amazing Victorian child meets washer woman fancy dress, so maybe that number should have been higher)

The Mighty Ducks 40 points

Diya's Darlings 49 points

The Regal Bunnies 58 points and the win! This team really shone in the Pictionary and pun rounds.

Having said that, I really think everyone who came along this evening (and who has contributed to our last four years) is a winner. We've now helped over 90 charities and community groups, venues and projects in our local area. We've done 5,375 good deeds in our local area, including 625 visits to isolated older people.

Winner, winner, chicken winner!

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Amy L

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Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 29th Feb at 12:56pm

Thanks for such a fun evening, and for being an awesome group of lovely people

Manjit Birk

Thu 29th Feb at 2:05pm

Happy birthday neighbors… well done on every you’ve achieved in the past 4 years x

Diya Singh
Diya Singh (she/her)

Thu 29th Feb at 2:37pm

Happy birthday to us! 🥳🍰🍾 I am forever thankful for this wonderful tight knit community (see what I did there?!) 🧶

Didem Campion

Thu 29th Feb at 3:25pm

Thank you for making me feel so welcome, it was great to meet you all. What a lovely bunch of people xx

Slough runner

Thu 29th Feb at 5:23pm

Great fun last night Amy, didn't expect to have to think so hard!!!

Nivi Bhide
Nivi Bhide signed up to a group run.

Wed 28th Feb at 6:45pm

Chick filling for Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service

Help this brilliant charity with their egg-cellent Easter campaign

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Amy L
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Nivi Bhide completed 15 good deeds with GoodGym. 🥇

Wednesday 31st January

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Nivi Bhide completed 15 good deeds with GoodGym.

Nivi has completed their 15th good deed with GoodGym

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Nivi Bhide went on a group run

Wed 31st Jan at 6:45pm

Artichoking up as we do our allotment of good

Windsor and Maidenhead Report written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner

It was a dark and stormy night - no, it actually wasn’t this time…it was a night of no particularly memorable weather as 18 Goodgymers met at the Community Centre to help the Maidenhead Community Allotment. It was great to see so many people, and to welcome new face Adam, for the last Wednesday session of the January challenge. This was combined with towel collecting for the other last task of the month, as we’re all really quite obsessed at this point. We may not have won but we absolutely smashed our target and that’s what really matters. On a slightly less cheesy note, this will also provide motivation for when we crush everyone else next year. In a nice, community-spirited way. There was also a distinct lack of rubbish along the route to the task, conclusively proving (because I say so and I’m the one with the words) that we’ve had a real impact with all the litter-picking-up this month.

Once at the task, we were divided into groups and given a number of things to do to help the allotment prepare for the new year. There was moving piles of dirt to the correct places, stamping on said piles of dirt to make it look nice, digging up weeds and artichokes, ensuring the weeds and artichokes were put in separate piles, and a bit of drama over some leaky butts. I have been given permission to use as many butt puns as I can think of but, despite the temptation, I don’t want to make you all crack up too much.

The time flew by and suddenly we’d done all the things that needed to be done and were being herded into a circle for the fitness part of the night - a Goodgym classic where one person chooses an exercise for everyone else to do and then runs around the circle. We left the task with a sense of both achievement and exhaustion, bags full of artichokes, and a little more exercise as we tried not to step in the remainder of the water from the (now no longer leaky) butts.

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Amy L

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Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 3:12pm

Brilliant report Scarlett! Perfect one to end the Jan challenge 👏

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 5:21pm

Excellent Report title!

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 5:21pm

And i

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 5:21pm

Abd I laughed at puns and description of no particularly significant westher!! :-)

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 6:16pm

Scarlett this is wonderful! I am laughing by myself on the train back from

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 6:17pm

And getting weird looks!

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Thu 1st Feb at 9:26pm

That’s my daughter! So proud 😊

Slough runner

Fri 2nd Feb at 2:42pm

Really enjoyed meeting the group and had a great time helping out at the allotment!

Nivi Bhide
Nivi Bhide signed up to a group run.

Wed 31st Jan at 6:45pm

Amy L
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Sat 25th Feb 2023 at 7:30pm

Amy L
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Nivi Bhide done a 6 month mission streak. 😎

Sunday 19th February 2023

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Nivi Bhide done a 6 month mission streak.

Nivi just completed a six month streak of doing missions. That’s so many bags of garden rubbish cleared and jobs done to help someone out and put a smile on their face. Give Nivi a cheer to encourage them to keep up the good work.

Olivia WallerAmy L
Nivi Bhide
Nivi Bhide went on a community mission

Sun 19th Feb 2023 at 9:00am

Walking on Sunshine, yeyhey!

Windsor and Maidenhead Report written by Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Five of us set out from Maidenhead to review a route for Slow Ways. The day was gorgeous with plenty of sunshine - a perfect walking day! 🌞👣

The task setter (me) had set us an ambitious target of 2.5 hours to cover the 11km route to Eton. We discussed the impossibility of it as we started off from the Maidenhead Library, along the stream into Braywick and on towards Bray village. Sol estimated that 3 hours was more realistic (of course she was right!).

Just after Bray village, Nivi had to leave us to make sure she can get back in time to take her husband to the airport - not an appointment you want to miss! We said reluctant goodbyes and the remaining four carried on to cross over and continue along the Thames path past Dorney. The path and river were busy with plenty of walkers, runners, dogs and rowing teams.

Sheila was making sure we kept on our prescribed route by taking charge of the map. The yellow one, otherwise known as Diya, made sure we were appropriately documenting the hike with well-placed photos and selfies of the group!

Most of us have traversed this route before on our cycles but once we got into Eton Wick, the route took a direction we'd never really taken before. It was, let's just say, a little off the target, but new and interesting. We got to Eton and celebrated with well deserved coffee, tea and juice. Then we went around to where our pickup from Maidenhead was going to arrive (thanks Hilary and Sheila!) . Sol it appears is a land shark and can't function in a standing position, so she convinced Kanika to join her in a few loops around the car park while we waited 😆

We all finished the day with 15km+ and over 20,000 steps! Couldn't have asked for a better day and troop to do this survey for Slow Ways with!

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Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Sun 19th Feb 2023 at 3:21pm

Thank you ladies for great hike on a sunny day!

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Sun 19th Feb 2023 at 3:25pm

Good mileage! 15.33km with carpark loops! 😆🥾🥾 + 2.45km walk back home from Maidenhead centre! That's over 17km. Thank you Kanika, my comrade in collecting miles!!! Great company!

Amy L
Amy L (she/her)

Sun 19th Feb 2023 at 7:13pm

Fabulous! I love the photos. What a colourful team you were on this beautiful day. 👏👏👏

Windsor and Maidenhead runner

Sun 19th Feb 2023 at 7:21pm

What a great day out, well done ladies!! 🌞👏👏👏

Diya Singh
Diya Singh (she/her)

Mon 20th Feb 2023 at 10:22am

Land shark Sol 😂😂 Beautiful day, really enjoyed the walk and the company!

Nivi Bhide

Tue 21st Feb 2023 at 9:46pm

Thank you so much for a wonderful start to the day! Missed out on what seemed like a fun walk... next time for sure 👍

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