16 runners rounded off their Tuesday evening by running to help The William Hobbayne Centre in Hanwell sort and clean one our their storage areas.

We were joined by not one, not two, but three wonderful new GoodGymers, so a big welcome to Hayley, Maudene and Faith! It was lovely to have lots of new faces amongst the group.

We started with a little warm up and introduction where we spoke about our favorite sporting books and films. Lots of interesting choices and recommendations including the recent climbing documentary film ‘Free Solo’, the running book ‘Eat and Run’ and classics like ‘Cool Runnings’ and ‘The Mighty Ducks’!

Time to make a clean break

With that it was time to run and this week we weaved the back way through to Hanwell where June from the charity was ready in waiting for us. She was armed with lots of sponges and cloths and one very dusty storage area for us to clean up.

We quickly got ourselves organised and started a chain to remove all the boxes from the area for a good hoover and scrub down. Small teams worked to wash and dry everything that came out and boy was it dusty!

Dust cause

It wasn’t long before everything was sparkling and with the area cleaned down it was just a matter of playing storage jenga to fit it all back in! We finished up with June telling us a little bit more about some of what The William Hobbayne Charity does and some of the upcoming things they are working on.

Excitingly, we at GoodGym will be involved with this years Hanwell Hootie and as part of the festival this year there will be a ‘Wall of Sound’ feature. This is an opportunity for charitable organisations, schools and community to present their message about how they support the community and promote the great work they do.

We’ve been given an MDF guitar to decorate and communicate a message about what GoodGym does in the local area, this will be on display at The Hootie for everyone to see, how exciting!

Another run bites the dust

Just a run back to the start to finish off the evening and we were done. Thank you to everyone who came down to give their time for the evening!

Don’t forget we have lots of exciting tasks coming up, as well as our weekly Tuesday group runs there’s also weekend missions and training sessions to get stuck into too!