25 GoodGymers ran 4km to help Ground works transform the Welshpool community garden!

Amazing to have an infusion of GoodGym first timers this week to really amp up our efforts in our community volunteering efforts!! Hope you all enjoyed your first taste of GG and will be back very soon for more!!

Three big Shout Outs for upcoming activities and get togethers. St Joesph’s Hospice jumble sale clear away on Saturday! Our September Social after our group run on the 17th!! Not forgetting next weeks visit to Abney Park for our Tuesday fix of GoodGym magic!!

It’s great when a plan comes together and we get to complete the task which looked improbable 50 minutes earlier and even better when we get a biscuit and sweet for our efforts to.

With Groundwork’s helping out the Welshpool community garden with plans, ideas, resources we were much needed to get the heavy lifting complete so that the garden would become more manageable for the residents.

Dominating 2.5 tonnes of soil by shovelling, carrying, barrowing and tipping into the brand new triangle raised beds filling them all to the brim!

We weeded away to create a perfect surface to lay 2 massive builders bags of bark down so that the weeds would stay at bay.

With that done the seeds were sewn to start the growing process in the beds which will bring colour and life to the garden!

Special shout out to first timer Ignatius for single handily transforming a large patch of grass into a new double flower bed and sewing the seeds of life!

A 2.5k run to the task 1.5k run back brought us back perfectly for 8:29!

Thanks for your monster effort and see you next week for our visit to Abney!!

Joel

17 Hackney GoodGymers ran 4k to the Literacy Pirates to help them with a heavy duty office move.

Great to have such a great squad along for the evenings activities! Welcoming in Ellen for her maiden GG voyage!!

Nipping off to Dalston through some of Hackney backstreets and the through the vibrant and amazingly encouraging Ridley Road market!! Making our way to the Literacy Pirates home ship!

Meeting Phoenix who showed up what had to be done around the various levels of the ship while explaining the amazing work the charity does for Hackney’s young people!

Each year 100 primary school children and 100 secondary school children from 20 Hackney schools become Pirates for the school year and aim to conquer their Literacy adventures!! With the new recruits coming in a few weeks it’s about getting ship ready for them.

We had to move cabinets, shelves, huge tables and many other things to a new home. From the Deep to the Bridge and way up to the mast!

Taking the table apart to allow it to fit down the lift before masterfully assembling a new Flat pack tall book case in a magical 18 minutes!!

Washing down the walls of the chalk boards ready to get repainted in the morning both on the Bridge and on the stage in the Deep we completed all tasks to perfection!

A quick debrief on the Ship where we found the secret passage and collected a prize for our efforts!

2k back to base on the double rounded off a great evening!!

See you next week for a park adventure!!

Joel