It was indeed a night on the tiles for the @GGSHF crew tonight!

We headed up the hill to The HOPE centre to meet with Facilities Manager Mark McKnight who opened up for us and lead us down into the MEGAstore where a huge amount of 'STUFF' has been stored from various work and activities that have taken place in the centre.

In the future, the hope is to clear the room in order to make it into a youth centre. Between now and then, there is a huge amount of sorting and skipping that needs to take place.

No doubt we will be back to continue the work, but on this occasion we focused on sorting and binning ceiling and carpet tiles that were no longer fit for use.

We were really on a roll and filled bags and trolleys up to the brim, ready for Marks team to wheel them out to a skip in the near future.

An excellent job was done by all, some might say our efforts were in the top percentile.. (thanks Ben).

Until next time, happy running :)

A BIG #GGSHEFF welcome to two new runners:

Katie from Leeds.

Carla from Brighton.

Tonights task was at The Hope Centre, an impressively massive space that has a whole raft of things going on from Church, to youth to conference based activities.

We met Mark McKnight the Facilities manager on site who gave us a brief on the evenings task which was to sort through chairs and tape up the ones that need attention due to wobbling issues or screws starting to come through the fabric which is a right pain in the arse!

We made quick work of the chairs in the conference room and soon moved down into the MEGA CELLAR where the were a MEGA LOAD of chairs to also go through. We got straight to it, forming a production line that would have made Jeff Bezos blush!

After a decent session on the chairs we rolled and shuffled them back into the storage area, ready for the facilities team to do their thing to improve the sturdiesness and comfort of our four legged friends.

We'll be back to The Hope Centre again for some sorting of other items and possibly some skip filling to help make room for converting the MEGA CELLAR into a Youth Club.

Until next time, happy running :)

Last night 6 of us headed out to a brand new task at the Hope Centre.

A brand new task! Lots of excitement was in the air as we headed off winding our way up behind the station through new gennels and stairways to the Hope Centre. At first glance, the building's huge, but we didn't know the half of it! Mark, Hope Centre's maintenance manager met us at the door, along with Cat who met us straight after work (commitment!).

Mark showed us in, including a brief look around their enormous auditorium which can get 500 people on a Sunday morning. Hope Centre is an independent church, with a nursery, community grocers, cafe, office space and much much more.

Our area of work was the cavernous basement. The task? to fill massive trolleys with wood to be taken out to an awaiting van for redistribution. We spent a good 30 mins loading and uploading, until the van literally couldn't fit anything else in it. We could have gone on all night, Hope Centre's basement is ripe for so much super goodgyming.

Finishing up, Mark kindly took us on the grand tour. The space is incredible, with an impressive nursery with a capacity of 57 and a community grocers stocked with fresh produce as well as refrigerated and tinned. Outside the grocers is a cafe open to all.

We thanked Mark and set off home, this way slightly more directly, with some detours for step-running, wall-sitting and press ups along the way. Back to base, we stretched, finished up and went in to warm up. A great night all round!