Rake That! We're back for good deeds

34 Goodgymers helped their local community in Camden
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Pritesh Mistry
Ricardo Sinclair
Paul Bown
John Shirley
Frances Powrie
Lydia Wood
George
Elizabeth Pang
Will Bourchier
Hayley Oberlander
Rosie Ashworth
Chi Nwa
Rachael Williams
Lizzy
Hanry Alexander Heatherwick-Lammers
CJ Jessup
Elizabeth
Abi Perrin
Matthew Hacke
Ruth Gray
Rachel Ho
Ian
Elly
Kenny McCarthy
Francesca Deleon
Simon Dennis
Emma Diamond
Ellie Johnson
Ashley
George Berry
Nick John
Ben Hadfield
Lynton Cooper
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Camden

Wednesday 7th August 2019

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35 GoodGymers ran 4-6km to help Story Garden & Coram Fields - woop woop!

Another awesome week but unfortunately my penultimate week, I hope you can make my final run next week and the beers & pizza afterwards! Waaaaah!

Welcome along to newbies Lydia, Kenny, Emma, George and Lynton.

In the news this week:

  1. Go along to the social tonight on the Southbank! Pritesh will be there chatting all the good - more details here.
  2. August's long run is going to be led by Simon Fitzmaurice, starting on Greenwich High Street, and finishing in the Olympic Park, Stratford - 10km or 25k options. Sign up here
  3. Well done to Hayley who did the Ride 100 on Sunday - awesome! Plus big up to all the Camdenites and GoodGymers who had lots of fun at the GG Olympics on Saturday - yay!
  4. Last thing - join the Unoffical GoodGym Facebook Group here and the GG Camden FB group here.

Corrrr what a fun evening of good, time trials, woodchip and 35 people! Nice! We split into two teams, with Frances (Loves a Mission) Powrie leading a group of 20 people to help the wonderful Coram Fields, which is the largest playground in central London. They'd just had there BIG Play Day so our task was to pack up after that and then sweep up debris, leaves, moss and anything else that's around. Great!

Moss Bros

Meanwhile I led a team of 14 team to help the Story Garden, which is right next door to the Crick Institute. We've been helping this community garden grow and develop over the last three months and it's really blossomed into a brilliant space. Martina said we have been 'instrumental to the garden's opening and growth!' We were split into four teams:

  • Scraping away woodchip under planks of wood to make a disabled access pathway
  • Litter picking around the entrance!
  • Shifting woodchip into uncovered areas near some of the newly constructed buildings
  • Filling up planters with soil in the pollytunnel

After 30 minutes we were done and Martina was very pleased! Pritesh led a group on a canal run to Granary Square, meanwhile Frances run her group over from Coram Fields to the same meeting spot. We all met there played on the minute for a minute and then did my final time trial with you awesome people. Hanry broke the record with 2.42 (course was 50+ metres longer)!

After a good stretch we went to the pub with drinks and fun. Lovely jubbley.

Sign up for next week here when we'll be helping Kentish Town City Farm!

PB out.


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Coram’s Fields is a children’s only park and playground and is open all year round for children under 16 years old. Our charity also provides services for all young people, both from the local community as well as for those visiting the area.

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