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16 Goodgymers helped their local community in Haringey

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Haringey

Wednesday 19th February 2020

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Rebecca

WALK LEADER

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16 Goodgymmers waddled through the jungles of Tottenham to help the Haringey Foodbank to get ready for the 2020 food parcels that are going out in the next couple of weeks

Kudos Corner

Everybody MAKE SOME NOISE for Valentina, Shohidur and Jack joining us for their maiden runs. Boom!

Jack is joining us to write a very positive, beautiful, amazing, and heartwarming piece (wink, wink) about Goodgym for The Telegraph. So everyone tried to be at their best behaviour and they were souper heroes - kudos all around!

Soupocalypse Now!

Young Jack was sent into the deepest jungles of North London with a mission to understand what makes GGHaringey tick. By now he must've heard the stories of a bunch of lovely, if slightly unhinged, swashbucklers waging battle with good deeds galore in Haringey. He landed just as Tottenham fell under siege from Spurs fans everywhere.

Hmmmm... I love the smell of Tottenham on matchnight.

Young Jack followed the trace of a running splinter group - having lost the walking guerrilla squad led by Rebecca - and ran towards the Haringey Foodbank with a band of merry deeders.

The swashbucklers were welcomed by Femi from the Foodbank with a pile of tins of soup that needed sorting. With military precision, our goodgymmers set out to sort all the cans needed for food parcels in 2020. Then the veggie tins. And the tea boxes. And the jams. So. Much. Sorting. Before you could say Souper Douper, the goodgymmers had finished their jobs and were heading back towards HQ.

Young Jack had by now gone native and been taken in by the GGHaringey way. He didn't even flinch when Colonel E Montz stopped the group in a cemetery courtyard and proceeded to make everyone do a gentle but exhausting plyometrics session.

By the time the goodgymmers got back to HQ, they moved with the fluidity of a single entity. Everyone was a Goodgymmer. One of us.

Shindig time is upon us - let us know if you want to come!

And the Goodgym Games are coming too, you MUST come!

And, finally, please do join us on Saturday for a really cool community mission. This local garden was vandalised over Christmas - come and help mend the damage done.

This task supported

The Markfield Project

Markfield is a community centre based in the london borough of haringey, which promotes rights, independence, choice and inclusion for disabled people and their families.

Markfield is an inclusive community hub where people can play, socialise and get information and support. Markfield was founded in 1979 by parents of disabled children. We are an independent registered charity. Our vision is a world where disabled, Deaf and autistic people are treated as equals, have a voice and can live the way they want. Our purpose is to enable disabled, Deaf and autistic people to be themselves, take risks and live life to the full. To focus on the needs of the whole family and break down isolation. To promote respect of disabled, Deaf and autistic people and support their full participation in society.