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Wed 17th Jul 2019 at 6:45pm
Camden Report written by Paul Bown
30 Goodgymers ran 4-6km to help Cecil Sharp House and Story Garden!
Welcome along to newbies Ashley, and. - great to have you along!
In the news this week:
Story Garden Report by Liz:
Frances led a team of 8 runners to Story garden, where they split into two teams for a super short garden blitz.
One team spread endless amount of wood chip (bizarrely containing several golf balls), while the other team filled some planters with soil for a community garden space. Small children helped out both teams, but as they'd already been listed as a potential hazard in the safety briefing, no one got hurt.
Afterwards, Frances led part of the group on a 4km run around Granary Square and Liz took the remainder on a walking tour that mostly consisted of playing with a semaphore-based art installation (they were thrown off it by a small child, also eager to play).
Double Task. Double Good!
Cecil Sharp House Report:
22 of us headed to help Cecil Sharp House, the home of English Folk Song and Dance. We ran for just less than 2k other meet Susannah who explained about all the amazing permaculture gardens and charity work that goes across the site.
She split us into in the following groups:
Getting between the new security locked doors was interesting, but we managed (no one was left behind). Over 35 minutes we got tons done, making Susannah very happy! We took a group picture and then headed to Primrose Hill - we learnt how to run up and down hill:
We then ran back to base, to stretch and go to the pub.
Sign up for next week here, Frances will be leading the group and you'll be off to Scope Charity Shop.
PB out
Thu 18th Jul 2019 at 11:50pm
Paul, I was there last night but didn't get a brownie point/ tick against my name/ good deed/ feather of an angel's wing etc. ;D
Wed 3rd Jul 2019 at 6:45pm
Camden Report written by Paul Bown
*28 Goodgymers ran 4-11.5k to help SPCA and St Mungos! *
Welcome along to newbies Emily, Ellie, Catherine and Ellie - lovely to have you along!
In the news this week:
St Mungo's Long Run:
Fourteen brave GoodGymers volunteered for GG Camden's longest run ever! I did the intro early and rather fast (Steve said it was my best ever haha) so we had more time to get over to West Hampstead. We set off on an adventure, up past Cecil Sharp House, around the side of Primrose Hill, over to Swiss Cottage and then up Finchley (lands that I've never been before). We kept a really good pace and everyone did brilliantly.
Perfect amount of task
We arrived and met Janice who gave us gloves, bin bags and water. Our task was to weed and clear the entire back garden. It was overgrown and clearly unused by the residents of the St Mungo's hostel. This fantastic homeless charity helps house and support people from across the community. Our help will mean they can now use the the garden and perhaps even plant some flowers/veg.
Over 20 minutes we made piles and piles of weeds, debris and dead plants. People took in turns to empty bin bags in the green recycling bin out front. In no time at all we were finished, group photo done and then we headed back home along the same route.
Leafleting task for SPCA:
Fifteen awesome GoodGymers, led by Frances, went to leaflet for the fantastic St Pancras Community Association (SPCA). We've helped these guys lots before with Christmas decorations, dancing and even a core class! This time we were leafleting over 400 flyers for their Community Festival which is happening in late July - nice!
Greece Lighting!
The group first ran 1km to the centre, collected the leaflets from Nicola and then split into groups of 4-5 to deliver them across the designated areas in Camden. After successfully delivering all of the leaflets the team collected together and headed to Granary Square along the canal, where they suitably got distracted by Greece showing on the big Wimbledon Screen (fair enough guys)
Another brilliant night of GoodGym, sign up for next week's run here when we'll be helping Story Garden!
PB out
Wednesday 19th June 2019
Zameer Merchant completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym.
Zameer is a now a pretty committed GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the fifth time
Wed 19th Jun 2019 at 6:45pm
Camden Report written by Paul Bown
24 Goodgymers ran 4km to help the Story Garden lift tons!
Thanks for coming along, no newbies but lots of regulars and recent joiners :)
In the news this week:
Well what a night, we were back at the new task - Story Garden - a community garden that is currently under construction. It's changed so much in a week and will keep on changing over the the next year, it opens as part of the Somers Town Community Festival in July and then Skip Garden will move over to the site in October.
Martina gave us two tasks last night:
As described by Thomas shifting the oak sleepers was some of the hardest work we've done at GoodGym Camden - lots of heavy lifting! Involving 2 or 3 people lifting each one (unless your Hanry). Over 30 mlinutes we moved at least 60 of them. Caz described all this rubble and wood lifting as quite a biblical task, a short time after that the heavens opened and rain descended upon us.... Luckily we were running by this point and it didn't get too heavy.
We did a nice 3.5k loop + the 800m time trial at Granary Square - lovely! After a slight early finish we stretched and headed to the pub.
Next week we are helping Antrim Allotments (6k overall) - sign up here.
PB out
Wed 19th Jun 2019 at 6:45pm
Gardening for our community
Read moreWed 5th Jun 2019 at 6:45pm
Camden Report written by Paul Bown
28 GoodGymers ran 4-8k to help St Christopher's Place and St Mungo's!
Thanks for coming along guys! The GG Monthly Social is tonight in Old Street at the Prince Arthur from 6.30pm - sign up here.
I'm sad to say I will be leaving my role as Camden Trainer in August, I'm going to be moving to Sheffield to do a Masters. I'll miss you all very much and of course we'll have a leaving party!
St Mungo's Report:
Eleven of us headed of to help a new task up near Swiss Cottage - St Mungo's! This is a fantastic homeless charity that has sites all over the London and the UK. We had a lovely run up there, avoiding Primrose Hill and passing some big houses. Upon our arrival Kat and Will met us to make our group thirteen!
Our task was simple but effective to clear all and any weeds in four parts of the garden, open up the back garden as it was heavily outgrown and bag up any dead plants that were already piled up. Splitting into two's, three's and four's we got to work and made a huge impact in 20 minutes - Abi said it was the hardest she'd ever worked at GoodGym - nice!
Overall we collected up 17 bags of weeds, debris and rubbish - well done! After a group picture we headed home via Primrose Hill for the view and lesson of running downhill - all the fun.
Poo Hand Kate
St Christopher's Report:
The other group went to St. Christopher's where they pulled up weeds (assisted by "the weed lady" and a small child), cut down a sapling that had pretensions of being a tree, and swept/cleaned the area. Katie unfortunately seems to put her hand in cat poo, and then proceeded to do the run after with her hand stretched out to one side trying not to hit anyone haha.
This was the first time we went to help this task for over a year, they are connected to Camden's Origin Housing consortium and always appreciate our help. After the task was completed Frances led a 3.5k run via the canal and Granary Square to home.
Sign up for next week here when we'll be helping Cecil Sharp House and another task (tbc).
PB out.
Wed 29th May 2019 at 6:45pm
Camden Report written by Paul Bown
25 Goodgymers ran 4km to help Scope Charity Shop sort donations, price tag, clean and more!
Welcome along to Mary whose first time it was last night - woop woop!
In the news this week:
After a thorough warm up we headed the 1km to Scope Charity Shop. Helen, the manager, was as organised as ever with a list of tasks to do and the amount of people needed for each task. This included:
Over 45 minutes everyone did a fantastic job helping the charity shop and making a real impact. We unfortunately discovered an extremely scary doll and Pritesh wore a strange jacket. Equally scary!
After finishing up our jobs we headed to the canal, Granary Square and home to the pub.
Sign up for next week here, task tbc.
PB out
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