Grab a pew & welcome to this week's run report! Greenwich GoodGym sprung into February with the second week of our 2-part task at St Luke's Church in Charlton Village.

An ice-breaker discussion on the joys of those first flower shoots peeking out as spring approaches ,followed by short but sweet run around the periphery of Charlton Park meant we were energised and ready to go as we met Liz, Church Rector, to update us with this evening's to do list.

From bubble-wrapping the lovely hand-carved nativity set, vacuuming the aisle and pews, to filing the hymn numbers, we had plenty to keep us busy. The DIY experts in the group dismantled a table, while some of us got to polishing the brass in the church (of which there's lots!) including plaques dedicated to local figures with possibly record-breakingly long names.

A polished performance GoodGym-ers!

Next week we're painting at the Montessori School And we're litter picking in Charlton on Sunday

Until next time!

Everyone loves a new GoodGym Task, and this week's did not disappoint!

With a starting point of The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, a slightly hilly run led this evening's team to St Luke's Church in Charlton Village. This beautiful building, with plenty of history, (some of it slightly spooky with the UK's only assassinated Prime Minister being buried in the crypt below...) is a key part of the village, used by many community groups. If you've ever run the London Marathon you may have been greeted by the Chariots of Fire theme expertly played on the church bells...! We therefore had lots to keep us busy, from cleaning candle wax off various surfaces, cleaning chairs and pews, to sorting educational stationery (testing colouring pens & bible quiz sheets). It helped that we had a printed to-do list to refer to as well as lots to talk about, hence the time passed quickly. I'm sure there will be lots more to do at our next task here next week!

Amazing work on the January Challenge & hope to see you all soon!

No matter where you live there's likely to be some litter around. And it's amazing what a difference it makes spending even few minutes out and about picking up the rubbish that others leave behind.

So that's just what we did - grabbed a bin bag, pulled on some gloves, and set off around our local streets and parks for a tidy up.

As you can see from the photos, some of us fared rather better with the weather than others ☀️🌧.

Star finds included a Tom Selleck frisbee and a pair of glasses 👓. It makes you wonder about the stories behind the things we find 🤔.

Where possible we put cans, bottles and paper in the recycling ♻️ .

At the same time we got some fresh air and exercise. With some nice thank you's from passers-by.

Win, win!

*Credit to Khai, the GoodGym pun King

We started the evening at Charlton House, discussing what we would do if we had more time in our lives. The thoughts ranged from more walking, sleeping, reading to traveling, painting and phone free time. Maybe we can try to carve out more time this year to do the things that bring us joy. 🌳📖 ☀️

But, back to the task in hand - one thing that brings us joy is a good old painting session and that's what we got stuck into at the lovely Charlton Manor Primary School after a quick run around the block. Mr Turner-Wing had everything prepared for us and we got to work on three sections of the school restaurant to give it a fresh coat of paint to try and make it look as dashing as the back wall which the team painted last time. It's amazing how a lick of paint brightens up a room! After 45 minutes the tubs of paint were all used up and we'd enjoyed a good chat and therapeutic rolling. Hopefully it looks better than it did before – the morning will tell! We’ll be back for more painting in a month and will have soon got the whole room done.

This weekend we’re back at St Richard’s and next Wednesday we’re at Dee’s nursery.

Until next time!