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Wed 20th Sep 2023 at 6:30pm
Tue 30th Aug 2022 at 6:30pm
Huddersfield Report written by Saul Muldoon
We found two Snowpups on our task tonight. These mini Snowdogs, decorated by children from local primary schools are part of an art installation of larger Snowdogs, which will be appearing throughout Kirklees in the next week.
GoodGym Huddersfield's job is to look after the eight Snowdogs located in Huddersfield town centre, making sure they remain clean, undamaged and free of graffiti for the duration of the installation throughout September and October.
But before the Snowdogs arrive, people need to know they are coming, so tonight seven ultra keen GoodGymmers were out delivering some 600 leaflets for Kirkwood Hospice promoting the forthcoming exhibition.
Well done and thanks to Kati Law, Louise Galvin, Ben Godfrey, Wendy Redmile, Louise Merriman and Karen O'Doherty for their flyer posting efforts. You were definitely all Top of the Pups this evening.
Tue 30th Aug 2022 at 6:30pm
Sunday 19th June 2022
Laura Merriman earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.
Laura completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Laura was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.
Sat 18th Jun 2022 at 12:30pm
Huddersfield Report written by Saul Muldoon
it might indeed be over but Kati Law, Laura Merriman and myself had a great day promoting GoodGym at the Berry Brow Carnival. Thanks all.
Wednesday 8th May 2019
Laura Merriman has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Laura 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.
Tue 7th May 2019 at 6:30pm
Huddersfield Report written by Saul Muldoon
Berry Brow Carnival is coming, the annual event is scheduled for Saturday 15th June and GoodGym were called in to help spread the word. The plan was to blitz the local area with flyers raising awareness and encouraging people to take part in the carnival which brings the local community together.
Whilst the carnival is coming, unfortunately the flyers advertising it weren’t. At 6:30pm last night we had 6 keen GoodGymmers raring to go and no flyers to post. Fortunately following a few frantic phone calls the flyers arrived, and about 20 minutes later we were on our way.
Running from our alternative start point of Lockwood Park Health & Fitness Club put us within easy reach of the Berry Brow area, a nice little 2K run with a little bit of off road action took us to the village of Armitage Bridge with its mix of higgedly piggledy Yorkshire cottages and newer houses. 6 GoodGymmers, 174 flyers to deliver and 60 minutes, could it be done?
Tonight’s team of Louise Galvin, Kati Law, Ben Godfrey, Meg Deacon and first time GoodGymmer Laura Merriman certainly thought so, and with hands full of flyers we divided up into teams and set about posting. Those experienced leafletters amongst our number had brought along wooden spoons or spatulas, and the point of these soon became apparent. The kitchen implements made levering stiff letterboxes quick and easy and avoided trapped fingers.....a top tip for future leaflet jobs, of which we have a number planned this summer.
Club Houses, Lake View, Top Row, Armitage Bridge certainly has some interestingly named streets and the GoodGymmers were getting busy finding cottages tucked away down the various alleys and ginnels. Those of you who have run the Huddersfield 10K will be familiar with Bankfoot, and Ben Godfrey and myself bravely scaled the 1 in 7 climb to post flyers to Woodbine Cottages at the top of the hill.
Fortunately the rain of earlier in the evening had held off, and by the time we had delivered the last of the leaflets the sun was out and the team were ready to run back to Lockwood Park. A sneaky shortcut gave some of us the edge over Ben who was flying down Wooodhead Road, and we arrived back feeling like we’d had another GoodGym night out.
Thanks to everyone who leafletted last night, if you missed it we’ll be doing the same again next Tuesday in Berry Brow. Meet 6:30pm at Lockwood Park Health & Fitness Club, keep your fingers crossed the flyers arrive on time this time!
Wed 8th May 2019 at 7:03am
An energetic task with all the steps and also great fun exploring and finding the hidden houses!
Tue 7th May 2019 at 6:30pm
Promoting this important community event in the local area
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