🙌 Town and Gown 10k, what a day!

It was Cambridge GoodGym's first time volunteering at an organised run, and it was brilliant fun. Working alongside the MDUK team, we were in charge of the finish line water station. The best place to be to congratulate runners and enjoy the great atmosphere 🎶

Having arrived early, we fuelled up on croissants and set to work laying out and filling over 1000 cups of water. We established a very efficient system working as a strong GoodGym team 💪

Later in the morning we mixed it up a bit and stacked up boards of cups to take out to runners, catering style. They were very grateful, and it was motivating speaking with runners who had just crossed the finish line.

Well done team and congratulations to all the runners 🎉

This week, we returned to Castle School and continued our mission to clear up their green spaces. 🌱

We set to work de-weeding the borders around the driveway, tidying up and sweeping away the leaves that have started to fall with the change of season. 🍂

This week, we were overjoyed to welcome Daiana, Andrew and Kei 😃 So as well as all the digging, we had a lovely time chatting and getting to know one another. We made a great team and between us filled 2 wheelie bins with green waste! ♻️

What a glorious morning at Fulbourn Hospital parkrun.

I cheered over 150 runners and walkers through the finish line and handed out the all important finish tokens. Well done to all 🙌

As always, it was great to part of such a positive and friendly volunteer team. We look forward to joining you again next month!

From weeding borders to sweeping paths, we turned teamwork into tidy work at tonight's task

We started with a stretch, then sprinted straight into action, ready to weed, sweep and spruce up the green spaces at Castle School.

Alan and I set to sorting the borders and the driveway, while Stephen worked on clearing round the school entrance. Strong work from all, filling a wheelie bin with green waste. Alongside the weeding, a bin vs. broom race brought a bit of added silliness. 🧹

With the grounds looking great and spirits high, we jogged back feeling proud (and rather more dusty!)

We look forward to coming back next week to tackle more 💪

This morning, we made the most of the lovely weather and helped out at the 3rd Brook Leys parkrun. 👟👟

I arrived nice and early for pre-event set-up, starting with helping to set up the finish funnel. Ann arrived shortly after, meeting us at the shipping container near the start/finish. Together, we walked the route around the lake to put up signs helping runners navigate this new course. 🧭

When the time came, I headed to the start line and Ann to her marshal spot. We had a fantastic time running with and cheering on over 500 runners and walkers. 🏃‍♀️👏

A huge well done to all who took part and volunteered to make this event possible! A very wholesome start to the weekend. ☺️

It was digging, digging and more digging at tonight's task!

We were helping SIN Cru prepare their site for an community event. As well as digging a little trench for a pipe, we were tasked with digging a hole for a mini trampoline. All part of a sensory walk, used for wellbeing activity on site.

Despite the rain, the soil was pretty hard, so the mattock did a lot of the heavy lifting. It was very satisfying and we were pros by the end of the evening. ⛏️

Many, many buckets of soil were excavated, so a good workout for us too. 💪

We finished up with a bit of weeding and tidying.

A great first task supporting SIN Cru, and we look forward to returning to help more as the project evolves.