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Wheelbarrowing reclaimed local bricks from the beach to the garden
Read moreWednesday 11th May 2016
priyanka has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Priyanka 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.
Wed 11th May 2016 at 6:45pm
27 GoodGymers ran between 3-5km to paint and garden.
After tropical weather recently the sun was shining and the evening was set for doing good. We collected together with the news this week:
We had two tasks again this week. Firstly we were continuing painting for Kentish Town Tenants Association, they are a community group who help improve the lives of those living locally, especially those who are elderly and isolated. Secondly we did some gardening at Cecil Sharp House, this is proclaimed as the home of English folk music and does lovely events from ceilidhs to weddings which require the grounds to be tidied.
Home of English Folk
After an active warm up and some talk about socket to pocket the group split and we headed off in opposite directions to #DoGood and #GetFit.
Cecil Sharp House Report:
After a lovely 1 mile run through the streets of Camden we arrived at the spectacular Cecil Sharp House to do some active weeding and gardening. We'll be heading to this task monthly for the rest of the year to help keep the place ready for events and community work.
Interesting tools
When we met the task owner Susannah she explained the importance of having us come along and already expressed gratitude for us being there. There was orange & blackcurrant squash on offer before picking various tools, including some interesting ones! The team scraped, weeded and swept the front and back gardens. Lucia seemed addicted to sweeping continuously falling blossom, Steve seemed to have lots of garden chat as always and George got the technique of using the interesting tool down. We stayed until the task was done with everything looking lovely and tidy. Well done everyone!
Jess's Painting report:
The other group sprinted off to help the Tenants Association finish painting fences for local residents. We’d made a great start last week, and Vaughan was happy to see us again.
Black paint beard
After a nice run there we got to work quickly, sprucing up the shabby fences with a slick coat of shiny black paint. Some of the group managed to give themselves a new coat of paint too - special mentions to Jackie for her very thoroughly painted arms, and John who accidentally (we think) gave himself a rather striking black paint beard.
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen has nothing on us.
Shout out to the many snails and other insects we came across - hope they’re enjoying their surprise new home makeover. Laurence Llewelyn Bowen has nothing on us.
Finally our time was up, and after a quick scrub with white spirit for some of the paintier members of the group, and a refreshing round of orange juices kindly provided by Vaughan, we sped back through Kentish Town to the community centre, just in time for PB’s stretch session.
As always brilliant work everyone! See you next week, we'll be going to Skip Garden and Alara, sign up here.
Remember drinks tonight and our taskforce member Frances is organising a 10 mile trail race in July, go along and enjoy the picnic afterwards.
PB out.
Thu 12th May 2016 at 2:02pm
Cecil Sharp was a top bloke. Want to know more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Sharp
Wed 4th May 2016 at 6:45pm
Mon 11th Apr 2016 at 6:45pm
Helping the TMO make some beautiful beds
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