Elle

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York

Life long volunteer who recently moved to York, hoping to join a community of like minded do-gooders who are also into healthy living :)


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Tidying up hall after Planet Food cafe and food distribution
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📍Southlands Community Centre YO23 1NX

Planet Food is a zero food waste community helping to break social isolation by bringing people together for food & drink..

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Elle (She/her) been Coach Verified. 🤩

Tuesday 26th August

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Elle (She/her) been Coach Verified.

Big news. Elle is now Coach Verified. They're ready to start running to visit and older person. Show some love for Elle as they start the next phase of their GoodGym adventure.

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Elle
Elle (She/her) signed up to a community mission.

Thu 28th Aug at 2:00pm

Tidying up hall after Planet Food cafe and food distribution

Planet Food is a zero food waste community helping to break social isolation by bringing people together for food & drink..

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Vicky Hearson
Elle
Elle (She/her) went on a community mission

Thu 21st Aug at 2:00pm

Another successful mission for Planet food

York Report written by Penny Spikins

Tables, chairs and everything all tidied away :)

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Vicky HearsonEd Woollard
Elle
Elle (She/her) went on a community mission

Tue 19th Aug at 5:45pm

Letting in the Light

York Report written by York runner

Four intrepid GG Yorkies arrived at the unassuming Fulford Social Hall to be pleasantly surprised by it's lovely interior - vaulted ceilings, arches and a large round window. However as we reached the kitchen at the back we looked out into what should be a courtyard to find what can only be described as something of a jungle! There were only a couple of metres of space into the courtyard and the vegetation was completely covering the kitchen window. We got to work, along with Juliet, one of the parish councillors and Andrew, one of her volunteers. Juliet was in the kitchen feeding the chipper and Elle and Penny were prepping the branches to pass to her and separating out the green leaves and flowers. Outside Andrew managed to cut his way along the back wall and sawed several large buddleia branches down to create some space and let the light into the window. I was cutting down some of the smaller branches whilst Lionel was trimming them down and separating out any pieces too thick for the chipper. After an hour's hard work (and a visit from a very inquisitive robin), we had cleared a significant area of the courtyard and allowed the light to come in once more through the window.

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Ed WoollardVicky Hearson
Elle
Elle (She/her) went on a group run

Mon 18th Aug at 6:15pm

Thistle be the end of it

York Report written by Ed Woollard (He/Him)

It had been building for some time, but rumour had it tonight was going to be the night that we finally beat our post covid record turnout of 33 people. Messages were being exchanged between Ed and Vicky every time someone signed up or dropped out and there was still some uncertainty as we got to 6.15 with 32 people meeting us at CVS and a few others saying they would meet us at the task. The tension (probably only amongst Vicky and Ed) was palpable! But first we got cracking with the task at hand and welcomed Joanne for her first GoodGym session just 2 weeks(!) after moving to York. Give her a big cheer 🎉

We also give a big round of applause too Pete who had completed the UKs ultimate swimrun challange, the Frog Graham Round. As well as running just over 40 miles and ascending and descending 15,750 feet over the North Western Lake District fells, Pete swam across Bassenthwaite Lake, Crummock Water, Buttermere and Derwentwater before finishing at Keswick’s Moot Hall. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Well done Pete 💪

A slightly injured Vicky led the walking group, whilst Ed led out the runner with Nick bringing up the rear. We then split off at the top of Blue Bridge Lane with Laura leading a smaller group to the Fishergate Trianlge and Ed taking the larger group to the Cemetery.

A group of walkers plus some of the main running group travelled a bit further to the Fishergate Triangle. It’s coming on really well with wild flowers and plants but in danger of getting overgrown with grass and thistles. Our small team got straight to work digging and tugging and by the time we left the majority of the offending plants were out the ground and ready to be taken away to compost. We then headed back to join the main group for fun and fitness!

Meanwhile at the Cemetery we were joined by Elle, confirming our record post-covid attendance of 35 GG Yorkies! 🥳

Taskowner Clive who told us that we'd be carrying on clearing the brambles that we had been working on during our last session. Mitch was attempting his best Sideshow Bob impression by leaving his rake lying around on the floor, whilst Emma wrestled with the brambles and lost, leaving her requiring a very dainty plaster on her nose. Some of the group discussed the pros and cons of burial vs cremation with Martyn introducing the concept of liquidation which is apparently a much more environmentally friendly way to go out from the world! Joanna received a lesson in digging up bramble roots directly on top of a grave, whilst being conscious of not digging down too far, and the rest of the group cleared the biggest clump of brambles with just enough time left over to run the last few bags across to the compost.

It was then over to Tower Gardens (not Castle Gardens) for tonight's fitness session. First up we picked four captains - Babs, Matt, Emma and David, then assigned the rest of the group to each captain. People then took it turns to come and grab a card from Ed or Vicky with each suit representing a different exercise and the numbers relating to the amount of reps or seconds, The joker in the pack was burpees with David's team being unlucky enough to pick out both jokers! After all 52 cards and 2 jokers were dealt out, the two winning teams were tied on 14 cards each, so it was then time for sudden death between the two captains, Babs and Emma. Emma drew 7 lunges whilst Babs needed to complete 8 press-ups and despite some very speedy press-ups it was Emma who came out on top.

It was then back to CVS to celebrate our record turnout with some of Nick and Bab's plums! What a way to end the night

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Jack Da Silva

Wed 20th Aug at 2:57pm

Great to see so many GoodGymers! 🙌

Elle
Elle (She/her) signed up to a community mission.

Thu 21st Aug at 2:00pm

Tidying up hall after Planet Food cafe and food distribution

Planet Food is a zero food waste community helping to break social isolation by bringing people together for food & drink..

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Vicky Hearson
Elle
Elle (She/her) signed up to a group run.

Mon 18th Aug at 6:15pm

Helping maintain York Cemetery

Keep the grounds nice for people visiting

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Vicky Hearson
Elle
Elle (She/her) went on a community mission

Thu 14th Aug at 2:00pm

Vicky Hearson
Elle
Elle (She/her) signed up to a community mission.

Tue 19th Aug at 5:45pm

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