There is a special community that meets - in an unsuspecting basement - on Tottenham Court Road every Wednesday during the year's colder months.

Orchestrated by the brilliant Brooke and the team (including the super kind Russell) at the American International Church, different community groups come together to cook, build beds, and make a home for an evening. 💚

The C4WS Homeless Project provides warm respite from the streets and a supportive step towards stable accommodation.

Since October, our wonderful GoodGym folk have been setting up dining rooms, assembling camp beds, and finding out the best way to fight with a duvet cover.

And last night was no different ☺️

Our lovely group - of Alex, Auriela, Caitlin, Gosia, Jackie, John, Louise, Siobhan, and Steve - worked with aplomb and speed, and all whilst sharing stories and laughter ♥️

We'll certainly be back as soon as the evenings sharpen and darken 💛

Thank you, everyone, for bringing your energy and time last night!!

Gosia volunteered at Caledonian Junior Parkrun today.

Although the weather is just gorgeous this weekend, mornings tend to be still pretty chilly! But as the run progressed, it was getting sunnier and warmer ☀️🌡.

Before the run started, Gosia participated in the warm up demonstrating the exercises to the youngsters and their parents incl. sun jumps ☀️, swimmers 🏊‍♂️, gorilla stomps 🦍 and some butt-kicks 🦵.

She was marshalling today and was assigned with position 1, close to the start line. She supported herself with the bubble machine 🫧 to give and extra boost for the youngsters when starting their run as well as when completing subsequent laps.

The event wasn't very popular today, apparently because of the half terms. For everyone who was there, it seemed like a great start of this Sunday morning.

It was a full of good vibes and sunshine day, absolutely perfect 👌 for some gardening work. Gosia traveled to Camden today to help Mrs H in sweeping leaves 🍂 and branches from her back garden 🌱. This way she could come out more often and enjoy this lovely weather just a bit more.

I arrived at 5 pm and was very kindly welcomed by Mrs H. She was visibly struggling with walking and she explained to me that she is struggling with her health since the accident she had in the past.

Mrs H led me to a back garden and gave few rubbish bags which she got from the council. She instructed me where I can find a broom 🧹 and a shovel. I was ready to go 🏎.

Before I even started the work she was clearly very eager to share some stories with me 🙂. She asked me to come to the living room and she showed me a lot of photos 🖼 and told a bit more about her family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 - her daughters, her dad and mum, her sister, her niece (who unfortunately passed away).

Then I got back and got on with work properly. First I tackled the area close to the door. Then moved further into the garden, and with a certain level of perfectionism 🕵‍♀️ tried not only to sweep the leaves from the ground but also target those ones which decided to fall into flowers, pots, racks and some other very narrow corners. Finally I tackled the shed area which involves repositioning a large ladder🪜and removing leaves that were previously squeezed by it. After the work has been completed, need to admit the garden looked pretty neat and welcoming 👋. Mrs H was very grateful so she offered me coffee but also said that next time we could have some wine 🍷 together. I was really glad to see her smiling as it even embraced more this already wonderful day.