Big numbers for a big task tonight. We welcomed lots of new faces, including Xenia and Katy. It was a lovely late summer evening, and we jogged through Gladstone park to arrive at Mora Primary School. There we waited patiently for them to notice the shouting, waving and phone calls and they UnLocked the door and welcomed us in.

Then we all got into one room and rolled the paint on

We rolled down the floor cloths, put our painting gloves on and rolled the paint smoothly down the walls, using the finer brushes to create that final polishing touch. Everyone who could see colours painted, everyone else... scraped the old paint off. sensible job allocations, team!

As the sweat dripped down our brows, down this paint crawled, down this paint crawled.

With only two rollers and some very small brushes we managed to finish one of the rooms, ready for a second coat on our return next week. We packed up, washed up , brushed the floor and jogged back to Willesden

Thank you everyone for joining! Hope to see you again soon

On a sunny Monday evening we welcomed two newcomers to Goodgym Brent , a big hello to Catherine and Chris !

Todays task was a litter pick of Willesden on the way to our summer social picnic .

Tabitha, Chris and Catherine took the left side of the road , and Amy and Chris the right . There was plenty of litter to pick and we added a fitness twist by squatting while picking. Lee soon joined and we had bags full of litter by the time we reached Gladstone park.

At the park we met Samina , Maria and Karen who had helped with a pick of the park .

We stayed in the park for a social picnic, where we shared popcorn, biscuits , fruit and crisps ... and an onion

Thanks Everyone !

On Monday evening Brent Goodgym met in Willesden Green. Our task this week was delivering leaflets for the new opening of [(https://https://www.libraryofthings.co.uk/)] We had twenty minutes to arrive at our task so we warmed up and jogged the long route round to Willesden Green Library. Once we arrived we met Juliana who had a stack of leaflets, and some handy maps printed . We marked the streets we would deliver leaflets to, and split into teams.

We made fast work of the leaflet delivery, and stopped to chat to a number of interested neighbours who were keen to hear about the initiative.

Once the leaflets were delivered, we regrouped and jogged back to our starting point for a well deserved drink.

Thank you team Brent!!

On Bank Holiday Monday five members of Brent Goodgym met in Willesden High Road, ready for a Spring Clean We split into two groups, armed with bin bags, and took one side of the high road each, picking litter up along the way to try and improve the look of the high sreet.

Once the high street was clean, we jogged down to Gladstone Park. The sun was setting, but was bright and we each selected an exercise to form a HiiT session .

Then we jogged back to our meeting point and had a refreshing drink afterwards

Kilburn Traid had finished their regular sale so called on Goodgym Brent to help clear their stock , ready for a fresh delivery of clothes .

Amy arrived first and was shown what to do , take the clothes off the hangers , dropping them into piles … and don’t waste any time folding things neatly .

Tabitha and Lee arrived soon after and got to work , it was a successful sale so there weren’t too many clothes left . We had to stuff the piles of clothes into huge cardboard boxes ready to be sent to the next store .

Once the clothes were away we put away the hangers too . Becka and Pete joined us , and helped with the final sweep and tidy

The Traid team were very grateful for our help and would love for us to come again next time . This was Tabitha’s 200 mission so we celebrated the achievement across the road with a drink and chips !

Great job everyone