Helena Daniels


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Helena Daniels went on a mission

Sun 12th Aug 2018 at 11:00am

Life at snails pace wasn't mint to be

Wandsworth Report written by Alyx Murray-Jackman

Helena and I met Mrs W outside her home and she showed us around straight away so we knew where to find all the tools we might need. She then showed us her garden and the task to be done - a huge piles of branches, twigs and leaves to be cleared, some weeds to be removed and some hedges to be trimmed down to just a base.

With rain looking we got stuck in quickly. We soon found out that her garden was an absolute treasure trove of snails and they clearly loved the newly wet leaves and twigs in the garden. Below this huge mound of garden debris we also found lots of mint plants that had made their way across the entire garden.

After just 2 hours, a very good workout, and 14 full bin bags, we were all done and we left Mrs W with a lovely cleared view out her window, and a garden ready for some weedkiller and paving.

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Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels signed up to a mission.

Sun 12th Aug 2018 at 11:00am

Weeding and trimming plants for Mrs W's new garden

Mrs Waller will be able to enjoy her garden and start doing some planting.

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Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels went on a group run

Mon 6th Aug 2018 at 6:45pm

Washing buses was no soap-prize birthday party for us!

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

The past two years have flown by in a blur of gardening, painting, human chains, cleaning, sanding and many, many squats. Last night we celebrated our second birthday in Wandsworth!

In this time we have done a colossal

3707 good deeds

184 jobs for older people

62 runs to our coaches

37 413 kms run in the process

That is pretty inspiring stuff!

It was a first group run for a some lovely people. Put your hands together and give a huge cheer for Alice, Emily, Alex, Isabelle, Rebecca, and Emma!

A huge shout out to Anil who reached a very special milestone last night, having clocked up a massive 50 deeds. Next time you see him in his black 50 tshirt, give him a high five for all the good he's done! A special mention should be given to Matthew who has not missed one single Wandsworth group run since we very first began. Way to go!

It was also lovely to have some great GG tourism from Lewisham, Hounslow, Westminster, Haringey and Lambeth - great to see you all!

Our task last night was a very well timed one given the ongoing heat. We had been asked by Leonard Cheshire, a fantastic organisation in Battersea that supports disabled people, to come and wash their fleet of mobility buses. So after a nice steady mile run down, we arrived to find buckets and sponges and a list of jobs to do.

While half the group got started getting those buses squeaky clean, and themselves a little dirtier, two other sets of runners got stuck into sorting out the garden and washing windows respectively. Forty minutes later, the place was looking much tidier, and we could see our hot and sweaty faces in the shining buses! Setting off for the park we were even 'treated' to a surprise watery ambush by Chi and Andrew from behind the fence. Naughty!

After a little jog over to the park, we eschewed the usual fitness session for a series of party games that still managed to get our hearts pounding. There was some excellent action from the ladies in the biggest British Bulldog game of all time, so amazing super strong Planking lions, and a semi successful game of Blob Tag.

All that was left was a run back to base, a good stretch and then to head over to the common to celebrate our birthday with a special Wandsworth picnic. There were laughs, there was cake, there were party poppers and hats!

Here's to you, GoodGym Wandsworth, for making our borough proud and putting so much into doing good. Happy birthday!

ps our special birthday video will be making an appearance on twitter and facebook, so keep an eye out for it!

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Helen Killingley

Tue 7th Aug 2018 at 12:19pm

And let's not forget a MASSIVE shout out to the wonderful Ana too - thank you :-)

Anastasia Hancock

Tue 7th Aug 2018 at 12:27pm

Aw thanks lovely Helen xx

Pritesh Mistry

Tue 7th Aug 2018 at 2:12pm

Isn't 58 an all time group run record?

Alyx Murray-Jackman

Tue 7th Aug 2018 at 2:50pm

Pretty sure it is Pritesh! Must be!

Ed Field
Ed Field (he/him)

Tue 7th Aug 2018 at 2:52pm

Blimey! Well done everyone. Special shout to Matthew - incredible stuff

Matthew Stuart

Wed 8th Aug 2018 at 8:46am

Thanks. I've enjoyed being part of the group and goodgym as a whole. Well done everyone.

Patrick Luong

Wed 8th Aug 2018 at 1:52pm

Wow all the feels! Huge turnout and Matt's achievement is absolutely incredible! Also amazed another year has flown by. Very well done Ana and all

Anastasia Hancock

Wed 8th Aug 2018 at 3:47pm

Thanks so much Patrick, hope to see you soon :)

Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels signed up to a party.

Mon 6th Aug 2018 at 8:30pm

GG Wandsworth's 2nd Birthday Party!

Today's the day the GoodGymers have their picnic

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Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels signed up to a group run.

Mon 6th Aug 2018 at 6:45pm

Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels went on a group run

Mon 23rd Jul 2018 at 6:45pm

We bed-der work hard - trees' lives are at stake!

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

The beautiful days seem endless at the moment, adding an extra sprinkling of GG magic to our runs...

Last night we were happy to see a number of lovely new faces joining us for the first time. Give a massive cheer for Ciara, Alison, Debra, Lizzie and Emily, who cam on their first group run!

I mentioned the exciting news last week, but Gardeners' World want to film GoodGym doing their thing, and have chosen one of our favourite tasks in Wandsworth. On 1st August they will be coming to the Doddington & Rollo community roof garden, and it would be great to have as many of you there in your red GoodGym tshirts as possible! The task will be watering, weeding, shifting compost and planting, and it would be amazing to have a big Wandsworth GG crew down there to represent us on the BBC. Sign up here!

We had something very special to celebrate last night, as not one but two of our lovely GG Wandsworth team had both reached that 50 good deed milestone. Absolutely cracking work Emily and Helen, you total stars. These two have committed themselves to do good for their community, I'm pretty sure they deserve a massive cheer!

It was a two task night yesterday, so there was plenty of fun to choose from. En masse we ran over to Harding House, a residential home for deaf people. Our job there was to dig over flower beds and tidy up the garden so that the users there can enjoy the outside space during the lovely weather. So while a large group got digging, a smaller team ran further down to Bramford Community Garden to give their desperate plants a really good watering. The council had recently planted a whole load of new trees there after the community garden had campaigned for them, but the recent spell of hot weather is causing them to struggle. So with water being provided by a local Homebase and the Golden Arches across the road, we got busy ferrying canisters over to the thirsty plants.

Half an hour later we met up with the rest of the group, who by now were having a plank-off in the common, and got stuck into a game of Men V Women stuck in the mud. If you were 'got' you had to do jumping jacks until someone on your team high fived you. The first round, where the women were 'it', was over in record time in a barnstorming victory for the ladies. Was it the slightly uneven numbers, was it the speedy running? Who knows, but it was a lot of fun. We then did some plank variations, holding different plank positions for 30 seconds at a time before moving on to the next one. It's a great core workout, and as we all know, a strong core is vital for good running form.

After a hot and sweaty run back (plus hill!) we stretched it out, and moved on to the bar to celebrate Emily and Helen's excellent achievement. Next week we're running to a local primary school. Sign up here to lend a hand.

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Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels has done their first good deed with GoodGym. 🎉

Sunday 22nd July 2018

GoodGym Runner

GoodGym Runner

Helena Daniels has done their first good deed with GoodGym.

Helena is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.

Dom Tooze
Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels completed their first weekend mission. 🥳

Sunday 22nd July 2018

Mission Possible

Mission Possible

Helena Daniels completed their first weekend mission.

Helena has forgone the usual weekend routine. Instead of lie-ins, roasts and strolls around the park Helena has dropped everything to run a GoodGym mission for someone who needed help. Respect

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Helena Daniels
Helena Daniels run their first missions with GoodGym. 🤩

Sunday 22nd July 2018

Mission accomplished

Mission accomplished

Helena Daniels run their first missions with GoodGym.

Helena has just done something they've never done before. Helena has just run a mission; they've changed their running route and run to help someone who really needed their help.

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