Last night we did part 2 of our WinterWise leafleting task for AgeUk. We were joined by the awesome John and Jackie from that there fancy London who were up here on a visit and we had a great time!

Great task, great chat, great evening!

Well done and thanks xx

Well done us for delivering some heavy brochures for AgeUk with some tips for keeping warm in Winter!

Well done and thanks to our GoodGym-ers who helped out AgeUK to deliver leaflets to raise awareness of Social Work employer events in the local area.

Fi and Meera helped AgeUk promote their HealthBus event Stretford by delivering leaflets

well done!!

MAN WITH A PAN!

Well done and big thanks to our lovely team of GoodGym runners who yet again smashed a task for the local community.

This time we were helping raise awareness of the Man with a Pan project run by AgeUK, which is a fun, friendly 5 week practical cookery course where participants will learn how to cook healthy, nutritious meals, meet new people and gain essential cookery skills.

It's aimed at older men who have been recently bereaved, have caring responsibilities, may be lonely and isolated and have never really learned to cook and/ or live alone and don't have the skills to cook healthy nutritious meals from scratch. It's a project really close to our hearts and we're hoping to do more work with them in the future - watch this space!

Anyway, back to the task in hand and also the essential Group run equipment of wooden SPATULAS (hence our wonderful pun - thanks to Isaac for that one!). Utensil models and stalwart Group runners Jo and Vicky.

After we had assembled, warmed up and chatted about the task and news we headed out to our leaflet destination of Sale. Once there we set about posting our leaflets through doors (with the help of our wooden friends to protect our fingers - pick up one GoodGym Trafford point for getting this tip!) and chatting to people we met along the way about the Man with a Pan initiative. We managed to deliver over 400 leaflets, amazing effort guys! Triumphant team!

Thanks for delivering the leaflets for us, much appreciated!

Streets pounded we returned home at a fair clip, and cooled off back at our lovely base location of St Matthews Hall in Stretford whilst chatting about the spooky halloween task for next week! Whooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Well done again to the team!

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Massive shout out to our team of Trafford GoodGymers who managed to deliver a whopping 500 flyers for AgeUK last night. AgeUK are running a local Health and Wellbeing event in the area on 6th November (click here for their website) and wanted to raise awareness with local residents. Thanks to GoodGym Trafford, 500 people will have info about it in their letterboxes!

We met as usual at St Matthews Community Hall in Stretford at 6.30pm and had a chat about the leaflet task, the mission over the weekend (still time to sponsor to raise money for Bone Cancer Research), and news...congrats to Isaac who after being away on a mission of his own last week, let us know that he passed his assessment up in Scotland - WELL DONE.

We warmed up inside as the wind was chilly (but no rain again - HURRAH!) and then set off down the road to Sale with our leaflets on board. With the help of local Isaac (we literally ran his usual 5K route!) in teams we navigated what can only be described as a rabbit warren of streets and distributed the flyers. We even managed to have a chat with a few locals along the way. Isaac showing us round his manor The GoodGym Trafford Busy Bees mid task!

After looping back round we then ran straight back home together clocking up a whopping 8.64KM in total! We stretched off, chatted about getting ID verified and the most recent Coach Pairing in Trafford (hurrah!) and congratulated ourselves on another job well done by the team:

thanks very much GoodGym Trafford!

See you next week...