St Werburgh’s Community Centre

Providing meeting spaces and facilities for individuals, community groups and voluntary organisations.
Based in St Werburghs in East-Central Bristol, we serve the local communities of Lawrence Hill, Ashley and Easton wards and communities of interest across the city. The Centre is managed by the St Werburgh’s Community Association, which aims to provide meeting spaces and facilities for individuals, community groups and voluntary organisations.

147 GoodGymers have supported St Werburgh’s Community Centre with 26 tasks.


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Melanie Young
Melanie Young (she/her)
Caroline
Caroline (she/her)
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Freya Dodd
Jason Thorne
Tim
David Head
Caroline

Leaf (n) let Try

Tuesday 30th September

Written by Bristol runner

Leaflets. Predominantly made of paper. A cornucopia of words and images designed to elicit a response from those that receive them.

This evening we were delivering these bundles of papery joy to the denizens of St Werburghs. Splitting into two groups we covered some of the local roads. The leaflets needing several folds to go through some of the trickier letter boxes. It wasn't long before we ran out of leaflets and we were done. Weeding anyone?

For fans of road names these are the ones we did:

Horley rd.
Sandbed rd.
Tyne st.
Cleave st (evens).
2/3 Mogg Street to 31 odd, 18 even.

Until next time...

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+3
Ed Newman
Jason Thorne
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Melanie Young
David Head

Melon-y adventures

Tuesday 19th August

Written by Melanie Young (she/her)

It was great to have Joshua finally able to join us after two inner tube incidents the previous two weeks - welcome, melon specialist!

We were due to be helping the the preparations for St Werburgh's Community Centre's Party in the Park but they weren't as far forward in the planning as they'd hoped so instead we tidied around the building and watered the plants plus testing the really-quite-narrow slide. The plant room itself was found but kept safe...

This is one of our longer walk/runs, so it was soon time for the walking group to set off, managing to get to Castle Park before the runners caught up, allowing a photo opportunity of the runners feeling the need to keep running uphill - very impressive.

Leaflets promoting the Party in the Park were distributed to shops on the way back with some more left with GoodGym locals to drop into more places over the next couple of days.

Back at Workout, we returned to last week's thrilling game of "guess Mariannes middle names" relying on the underrated strategy of knowing the last letter was in the second half if the alphabet. We eventually succeeded, but we're keeping it a secret. One middle name to go, the excitement is already at fever pitch.

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+7
Jason Thorne
Melanie Young
Richard Breakspear
David Head
Paul Becker

Hedg(-ehogg)ing our bets

Tuesday 8th July

Written by Melanie Young (she/her)

Beating the impending heatwave (number 3 of 2025), we gathered in the shade at Workout (except Roddy who was determined to stand in the evening sun) and set off in two group - the runners with Richard now as a fully-fledged Fitness Leader (taking charge of the requisite First Aid Kit) and the walkers where no-one's really in charge and conversations are many and varied.

We had a plan, we knew we were preparing table cloths and decorations for the Festive Friends lunch on Friday, and watering the planters that were very dry. Except none of the decorations material shad been left out, so we kept ourselves busy with watering and weeding the edges of the building and front/side walls so he outside would look lovely for the Festive Friends. At least there wasn't a big pile of bunting to untangle!

There are planters of herbs and many fruits - a fig tree that's looking amazing (note to self - ensure we have a visit in 5 or 6 weeks' time when they should be ripening nicely), raspberries, gooseberries and wineberries where scientific sampling was carried out.

Then the Top Excitement of the evening overshadowed all other finding, conversations and puns as a little hedgehog was spotted and we ensured it found a quiet, shady spot to curl up. I say ensured, when we went back to check it had found itself a good temporary spot, but we're happy to take the credit as we COULD have helped if it had been needed.

We discussed a fitness session as the foot/cycle bridge is quite high, steps and slopes so lends itself, if only there'd not been an impending heatwave, and the pollution levels from the motorway below are possibly not ideal...

Soon we were climbing and descending the bridge just the once on our way back to Workout where it was the perfect evening for sitting out on the terrace.

Fantastic GoodGymming, Bristol!

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BristolGroup run
+2
Jason Thorne
VaguelyNorthernDarren
Richard Breakspear
David Head
Caroline

Bunting is a fun ting

Tuesday 10th June

Written by VaguelyNorthernDarren

Return to bunting tidying upping was the done thing this evening. For Clown School lovers, and who isn't?, it's back on in St Werburghs! We made short work of the task, despite a lack of string and the kitchen being the hottest place imaginable to stand in for half an hour of bunting rustling. The biggest news of the day was this coming Monday, is National Richard Day, so Happy Richard Day to all who celebrate a d we look forward to the cakes Richard B said he will bring on Tuesday!

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BristolGroup run
+5
Ed Newman
Jason Thorne
Melanie Young
Richard Breakspear
Kim Dowsett

Good Will Hunting GoodGym Bunting

Tuesday 25th March

Written by Melanie Young (she/her)

It was still daylight, with a beautiful sunset to appreciate as the runners and walkers left the cobbles outside Workout to head for St Werburgh's Community Centre for Caroline's 500th good deed - mild congratulations, Caroline, who doesn't think it's worthy of a cheer as it's just turning up, but this week she'd not only turned up, she'd brought vegan chocolate brownies - hooray!

We were helping the centre prepare for their Green Feast event on Saturday - emergency counting of spoons and forks (the easy bit) and detangling two whole boxes of bunting - some cotton, some cardboard and LOADS of thin, fraying fabric ones that were knottier than a knotty thing. I can't think of a knotty thing - answers in the comments section, please.

With a time-lapse video showing how productive we were, it did take the whole time we were there and we left the bunting so tidy that each individual section was lovingly rolled up and tied with string and it all fitted into the Hamper of Bunting - maybe we'll be asked back to pack it away again instead of de-tangling it before the next event?!

Back to Workout, except there was speed dating on, so a diversion to the very warm Bar + Block upstairs seating area (who knew?) for aforementioned brownies, cups of tea and other tipples. Much happiness all round.

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Marianne Bradshaw
Richard Breakspear
Chris Bennett
Caroline

Wrap God by Geeingee 👀

Tuesday 26th November 2024

Written by Bristol runner

Puns don’t kill people, wrappers do (not really)

What a wrappers delight! Now what you hear is not a test, I'm wrappin' to the beat… (I’ll stop now)

The task this evening at St Werburghs Community Centre was a welcome indoor one, and what a task. Eighty presents to wrap and an hour (ish) to do it in, ready, set, GO!

No spoilers (unless you look at the photos) on what we wrapped in case the wrong person reads this but there were decisions to be made.Tough decisions. Once we got into a rhythm we raced through them and before long we had finished. What a fun task. Ho Ho Ho, I’m off to room 7 for a lecture in my clown suit.

Until next time…

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