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📍The St Pancras and Somers Town Living Centre NW1 1DF
AIC's cold weather shelter helps 16 Londoners each and every week - you'll be making sure things are ready and inviting for the evening's guests :)
Wed 2nd Apr at 6:15pm
Come join for a social - fun - and active evening making a difference for this community space :)
Read moreWed 19th Mar at 6:15pm
Come join for a social - fun - and active evening making a difference for this wonderful community organisation :)
Read moreWed 12th Mar at 6:15pm
AIC's cold weather shelter helps 16 Londoners each and every week - you'll be making sure things are ready and inviting for the evening's guests :)
Read moreWed 19th Feb at 6:15pm
Camden Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
Our GoodGym Camden group's work was a touch more visible last night.
This wonderful group - of Emilie, Jackie, John, Rose, Susannah (our brilliant host) and Steve - turned up, ready for work, at Camden's Cecil Sharp House.
Nestled in a grand building in Camden Town, it's a haven for folk music. And the secret has clearly filtered into the community. We started our work amidst a steady stream of people arriving for the evening performance.
There were some marked differences between us. The most marked being:
Well, um, that really was the only difference I could discern.
Anyway! Our work!
This group swept, weeded, pruned, and tidied last night. And the results, for 7 folks happily chatting away, were remarkable. The pathways were transformed, the remaining leaves were bagged, and the flower beds' weeds were comprehensively pulled, and a great pile of bags captured the natural remnants of our work.
Thank you, everyone! We'll be back in March to sow summer seeds!
Sat 15th Feb at 11:00am
Camden Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
4 wonderful GoodGymers (Emilie, Emily, Matt, and Steve) and 1 Alex took GoodGym to the West End today.
Explore one of Theatre Land's side alleys and you may stumble across a lush plot of trees, flowers, and calm. The Phoenix Garden has been in the community's hands for 40 years, and it's a haven from the bustle from dawn until dusk every day of the year.
Our brilliant group stepped fully into the GoodGym spirit today.
The garden uses gabion cages to hold raised growing beds. And the cages are filled with Covent Garden's debris from the area's bombing in World War 2. These bricks and this rubble hold a history, and we were moving them to give life to a new structure today.
Our task was to empty the existing cages, move the cages to a new (sunnier) spot, and re-fill them. The new bed will be lined and filled, and the hope is that the sunnier climes will result in better growth this year.
Over 90 minutes, this wonderful troupe emptied, shifted, wheel-barrowed, and re-assembled, and the result was a huge difference :)
Thank you, everyone! We will be back here soon!!
Wed 12th Feb at 6:15pm
Camden Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
(Check out Gosia's wonderful Insta video here!)
There is a large hall in Tottenham Court Road's American International Church.
It's the sort of hall you can imagine Charles Dickens in - he'd probably say something profound like - this is a nice hall.
And it's usually home to West End casts rehearsing plays and musicals - if you sneak in on a Wednesday night, you'll usually glimpse costumes and sets and a large double bass.
But last night we were tasked with turning the hall into the evening's winter shelter. And by 'we', I mean our wonderful group of our first good-gymers Auriela, Kiera, and Kayla (welcome, all!) and our Camden regulars Alex, Emilie, Emily, Gosia, Louise, Jackie, John, and Steve!
On arrival and having been welcomed by our brilliant host, Brooke, a smaller group of Auriela, Emilie, Kiera, and Kayla headed straight to an empty room that they soon turned into a welcoming dining room!
And while our smaller group were good-deeding, our larger group were doing the same - the hall popped with beds and the beds got dressed with warmth!
After 30 happy minutes, we turned out into evening Camden just as the shelter's guests were starting to arrive - nice one, everyone!!
Sat 15th Mar at 11:00am
We'll be making an active + real difference at this special public park in Camden!
Read moreWed 26th Feb at 6:15pm
AIC's cold weather shelter helps 16 Londoners each and every week - you'll be making sure things are ready and inviting for the evening's guests :)
Read moreWed 5th Feb at 6:15pm
Camden Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
A strange sight was spotted in Gospel Oak last night.
Small head-bound lights scurried around Lismore Circus. They were doing something good and there was intermittent laughter.
And amidst these lights, some sort of superhero was running around in their cape. We can't know their name for certain, but... we think it was 200!
This wonderful group of Cecile (on their first GoodGym outing, welcome!), Gosia, Jackie, John, Michael (on their first GoodGym trip to Camden, welcome!), Michelle (also on their first good deed, welcome!), and Steve joined Lismore Circus's community champion, Suza, to clear the area of discarded trash and litter.
And we were also celebrating Gosia's 200th good deed - a huge congratulations, Gosia! The cape was John and Jackie's idea, and Gosia was soon running, twirling, and jumping like the superhero she is :)
Over 40 minutes, this group cleared the community garden of bottles, wrappers, and cigarette ends, before exploring further afield into the adjoining Lismore Circus and walkways. Nine people working together can achieve a lot in 40 minutes, and this group's efforts made a visible difference.
Thank you, everyone! Here's to next time!
Thu 6th Feb at 1:41pm
congrats Gosia!
Thu 6th Feb at 3:56pm
To be fair, I was just handing over the Camden cape!
Sat 8th Feb at 4:30pm
200th good deed, great work Gosia 👍
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