18 Eager GoodGymers ran 7k to help One Big Family helping the homeless charity in Victoria make the food for the evenings homeless food stall.

Bouncing out of the door we zipped 3k through the Central London foot traffic navigating a very import looking event at Liz’s house. Weaving south to the Ebury Estate where we me the One Big Family crew!!

With lots of jobs to do we split up and got to work!

Carrying baby food, salad pots out to the car for another homeless charity who were taking the excess food donations. Making a few loaves of very interesting filling combination sandwiches (hummus and tuna anyone??). Bagging up some delicious looking pastries and filling up 4 huge urns for hot drinks.

While outside we loaded food into the store sheds, ordered the 3 sheds for a few collections in the morning.

With the car full we went into overdrive and to save space we emptied 300 salad pots into 4 big containers so all the food could be transported.

With our work at the lodge done we grabbed the 2 fully loaded trolleys and ran them the 1.5k to the distribution point near to Victoria Station.

With the extra job in the bag we were behind schedule so we put our feet down and ran fast back to base!!

Sorry for the late finish but our efforts made a massive difference this evening!! Thanks for coming along and all your hard work!

Next week we are off to Little Venice to look after our adopted stretch of river!!

The 21st of November sees the epic GG/ St Andrews Games 3!! We need all your help to take on the energetic kids of St Andrews in a range of games to have a little fun after all our volunteering efforts over the year!

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

14 GoodGymers spread some Halloween love by giving away 500 Treats in Westminster while running 9k!!

Great to have you along on a Westminster gold standard task, only made possible with your amazing generosity and running graft!!

Individually packed treat bags, socks, sweets, chocolate, cakes, Vegan snacks and even some dog goodies were all brought along by you amazing lot!! Thank you so much!!

After a quick treat sort out in the New Balance store we were primed and ready for a whole lot of distance to be covered.

Lots of happy people on the streets this evening and was great to put a few smiles on the faces of Westminster’s homeless community!
Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square, Charring Cross, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Cathedral, Victoria, Green Park and finally Mayfair created a mammoth running pathing as we weaved main roads, back streets, side ally, Church entrances to find as many of Westminster’s homeless community particularly trying to access the more isolated people.

Hard to write about such a simple task that did so much good, you guys brightened up a lot of evenings, top effort!!

Thanks to Danny for telling us about the Fulham 10k volunteering squad!! If you want to get involved here are the details.

The GoodGym Christmas party is fast approaching on the 1st of December!! Click here for all the details.

See you all next week for some Christmas decoration fun with Open Age!!

Smooth Running

Joel

p.s thanks to Danny for the extra pictures.