Three runners in red joined forces to promote the Reduce & Recycle HUB for Acton Market which occurs on the 1st Saturday of the month. After a short run, they started leafleting and walked around 3km around the market area. They were once again closely monitored by our 4 legged friends...mainly the cats who were at the doorsteps, on car bonnets or wondering the streets. One of them looked like a panther and was on top of his patrolling and keeping and eye on milk bottles from the bonnet of a car park on the drive way. Were they checking the goodgymers of waiting for the milkman and his van as a lot of houses had the empty milk glass bottles in front of the doors?Milk delivery for our feline friends? Chris , Sevan and Steph Ducat distributed just over 300 leaflets

Exceptionnal community mission or group walk on a hot Thursday evening in Acton Town or Catland. 3 Musketeers joined forces to spread the word about the Reduce and Recycle Hub happening on the 6th of July at Acton Market. Steph Ducat arrived early with his 4 envelopes which he would share with Kash and Sevan who arrived running through the busy streets near Acton station. This regular leaflet task is known to be in the town run by the 4 legged Mafia : will the Musketeers meet the boss Puss in boots or will the town have been taken over by the Doberman crew? As another very hot day, they wondered if the 2 gangs would be out or hiding in the shade to keep their cool! The start of the group walk/run/jog was very quite and the only dogs or cats to be seen were the signs on the doors, the door mats or the pet store...pretty harmless and non agressive dogs. Puss in boots not to be seen. Then the dogs started barking from inside the houses when the Musketeers started putting leaflets through the letterboxes. This probably woke the cats as started to see the stray cats on the streets. The cats checked what was in the envelopes and gave their seal of approval to the 3 Musketeers who covered nearly 3km each in cat and dog territory to finish and enjoy a well deserve iced chaii. Nobody was hurt or attacked and the area is still under the reign of Puss in boots and his crew.

On the cats best day of the week - Cat-urday, a trio of Goodgym Ealing adventured in the Bermuda triangle to promote the Reduce & Recycle Hub that is happening on the 1st June at the Acton Market. Who would welcome them this time : cats, dogs or something else and would they loose anyone in the triangle? The trio were welcomed by a cat at the start of the mission with the right catitude, but many more cats were seen on the backstreets and not all were as friendly. The milkman has a round to do here when you see the number of empty milk bottles in the neighbourhood. Other 4 legged friends were about when dropping the 400 leaflets in the post boxes, but not as quiet : who let the dogs out ? Whoof whoof!!!!. The cats turned out in numbers as usual, but we had a lovely surprise of a squirrel interested in the leaflet. After covering roughly 2km each by foot and dropping off 400 leaflets, the trio called it a day and went off in the sunshine until their next adventure.

Thursday evening and 5 goodgymers paws-tive(ly) meet at Acton station to then distribute leaflets around the station for the next Reduce and Recycle Hub at Acton Market on the Saturday 4th of May. Fur-tunately the rain stopped and the team walked from house to house for leafletting. As usual, the crew were welcomed or not by the pawdyguards. Who(of) are you? Dogs and cats alert on the goodgymers when approaching the letter boxes. Was it pawsible to deliver all the leaflets without being chased by our furry friends? Alot of dogs barking, luckily from inside but we had some brave cats defending their houses too!! Fur-ocious 4 legged friends and no Goodgymer was hurt during the mission. Appaws for the 5 goodgymers who covered roughly around 3km each and distributed all the leaflets. Pawsome mission!!

Steph, Sevan, Pippa, Kash, and Beata met on Monday evening at Acton Town tube station to distribute leaflets promoting the Reduce and Recycle Hub happening this Saturday.

They ventured towards the new development buildings Northeast of Bollo Lane to post flyers in the residents' letterboxes. There were some real jackpots scored as the GoodGymers encountered large clusters of letterboxes outside the buildings.

Despite the cold wind, the team worked quickly and efficiently, chatting and joking as they went. They completed their task in no time, spreading the word about the monthly event promoting reducing waste and ecouraging circular economy. They left Acton Town with a sense of accomplishment and looking forward to their next session together.

The Reduce and Recycle Hub team (Action West London) got really serious about reducing when it comes to their leaflets. Minimum size, maximum content. The A6 flyers that we were distributing today were loaded with information about the upcoming and regular events in Acton:

• Reduce and Recycle Hub on Saturday the 3rd of February where the residents can learn to fix clothes, bring their bikes for repair, recycle clothing and shoes, appliances and laptops and swap books
• Acton Market - a weekday street market supporting small local businesses
• Market W3 - a similar street market but every Saturday

The GoodGym leafletting squad was formed by the usual suspects. If only one of them was not in recovery mode, all would have been running today! Sevan led tonight's run, Steph Ducat was up for getting some mileage in as usual, Christos made his comeback in 2024, hoping he wouldn't be freezing his fingers like the last time, and Chris, who doesn't shy away from a humble Acton leafletting session, didn't disappoint after he let us know last week he'd be joining the gang.

The runners met Kash in Acton, who brought five fat envelopes of kash (see the photos!) after making a suspicious deal last week with Action West London. We didn't want to be caught with so many notes on us! The contents of the envelopes had to be dropped somewhere! The team decided to use the letterboxes of houses on the streets between Uxbridge Road and Gunnersbury Lane for that purpose. The suspects finished lighter by 433 leaflets, but they have been seen by a few cats and heard by several dogs. We are hoping that having a few tasks for the Ealing Animals Fair coming up soon, we are in their good books and cats and dogs will keep quiet about our activity in Acton.

The runners covered 5km in total, the lone walker 6km, and everyone put in an extra 2.6 km during the task.

Join us next week for another run to Acton followed by the usual chaii afterwards here!