Castlehaven Community Centre

An award winning community association in the heart of Camden Town.
The Centre provides a variety of community activities and opportunities for people of all ages, cultures, abilities and backgrounds. 'Whatever your age or ability, we have something for you.'

140 GoodGymers have supported Castlehaven Community Centre with 90 tasks.


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Previous sessions
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John ShirleyJacqueline Shirley

Wood you believe it!

Wednesday 18th September

Written by John Shirley

Today we took on a common GoodGym adventure: moving things from one place to another, and then some of them back again.

The task was to sort out a pile of wood. The rotten, unusable ones were to be taken to a pile to be removed at some stage by Camden council. The re-usable bits were deposited on another pile, and were replaced where they'd started, with protective tarpaulin on top.

And that was it - apart from keeping up to date with the task owner Phil. Back next week!

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John ShirleyJacqueline ShirleyIlmi

Forking About

Wednesday 4th September

Written by John Shirley

We spent an hour forking some hard soil, to give it room to breathe and make it nice and soft again. Meanwhile, Phil from Castlehaven talked us through his journey from banking to his present role looking after the project.

Welcome to Ilmi, for her first ever Good Deed! Look out for more sessions (weekly Group Runs, as well as Community Missions and solo Missions) in Camden, Islington and all over!

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John ShirleyJacqueline ShirleyMaria

Spoon Goons

Wednesday 7th August

Written by John Shirley

It was great to see how the vegetables have flourished since the community garden was set up.

But sadly, an unhappy (and probably unwell) local resident had taken it upon himself to super-glue the locks of the equipment shed. But this didn't stop us weeding the planters, using our bare hands and a couple of spoons!

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John ShirleyJacqueline ShirleyMaria

Lettuce help

Wednesday 14th August

Written by John Shirley

Maria was already working hard when we arrived, planting foxgloves and pruning the overgrown lettuce. We got on with weeding

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John ShirleyJacqueline ShirleyCaitlin RollisonMaria

All Tied Up

Wednesday 28th August

Written by John Shirley

This week we were joined by a special guest - Caitlin from Islington, who's usually all tied up with work on a Wednesday lunchtime, but took a whole week off so she could join us for this task (or something like that).

It had been a windy week, meaning the none-too-strong bamboo sticks which were supposed to hold up the tomato plants had collapsed into the earth.

So we first had to entangle those that had fallen into each other, remove a few dead bits and then hope we could defy gravity and get them upright again - using as a guide the digits representing Caitlin's 111 good deeds.

A further issue was getting the poles deep enough into the earth to hold firm. But we got there in the end - getting the more reluctant poles all tied up to their neighbours - and can only hope that a small breeze won't bring everything down again.

Finally, good luck to Maria with her job application - even though it might mean we see her less often at midday GoodGym tasks

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John ShirleyJacqueline Shirley

Steer Calmer

Wednesday 3rd July

Written by John Shirley

In Sir Kier Starmer's constituency, the day before the election, we laboured away to steer our hoes into the cracks between paving stones, to clear the path of weeds and make the community garden look a lot calmer.

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