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22 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
Liv Parker-Scott
Mollie
Jenni H
Chi Nwa
Mike C
Larissa
Phill Turner
Adam Wakefield
Samuel Horsley
Shan Rahulan
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Abhi
Chris
Andrew Swanton
Catherine
Lionel
Annabel
Arran
Emily Bannan
Anna Griffiths
Nikki Munday
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Ealing

Tuesday 16th October 2018

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An amazing 22 GoodGymers including 2 new runners, 4 tourists and lots of returning faces ran 6km last night to help stack, sort, shift and snip at Ealing Foodbank!

  • Anna and Nikki came to GoodGym for the first time last night, big welcome to you both!
  • Louise came all the way from Lewisham, Arran visited from Richmond and Andrew came from neighbouring Hammersmith and Fulham.
  • We also had regular tourist Chi on his travels (does he have a home?!) who blasted tunes for us on the run yesterday evening!

Lovely to see you all!

After starting with a quick warm up we trotted off down to Ealing Foodbank in Hanwell to help with lots of different tasks across the site. Pumped up by Chi's tunes blasting from his running backpack we had a speedy group out at the front, regrouping and doing squats on the turns. With everyone safely onsite we got cracking as there was A LOT to do last night!

Team work makes the dream work!

We split ourselves into two groups, team outside were tidying up all the grounds surrounding the hall, litter picking, trimming and weeding. You guys did a wonderful job clearing five massive bags of garden waste and 2 bags of litter! The other team worked tirelessly inside trying to weight, sort and stack as much of the harvest donations as we could in the short time window we had. Between us we also bought along a few donations from our team too so it was great to see where it all goes and be a part of the process to help those who need it most! Our donation weighed in at around 10kg but we weighed nearly 250kg of donated goods in total.

That's a lot of good right there!

We didn't get everything finished last night as there was so much to do but Hilary from the centre explained that they had been really short on donations until recently so having too much stock to sort was definitely a good problem on this occasion!

Before we knew it time was up, so just a short jog back down to Ealing Broadway for some stretches and goodbyes. It was so great to see so many of you out last night and we'll be back at The Foodbank again soon as donations ramp up towards the festive period.

Until next time!


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Ealing Foodbank
Helping local people in crisis

We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.

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Chi Nwa

Wed 17th Oct 2018 at 2:23pm

Nice report as always. Where is the what's app group link?

Liv Parker-Scott

Wed 17th Oct 2018 at 2:36pm

It's in the follow up email but here it is again: https://chat.whatsapp.com/069EiHJlfNNIrN6wTUB1ne Great to see you!

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