Volunteering at Hackney Night Shelter

Volunteering at Hackney Night Shelter

First session at Hackney Night Shelter

A lovely sunny morning for a paddle along the River Lea, guided by Leaside Trust coach Beate, who got us kitted up with a life vest and paddle, and got us warmed up with some reactive catch the paddle games.

We boarded our canoes in twos and quickly learned how to navigate the waters of the River Lea. The weather was on our side as we explored the River and encountered wildlife as well as other vessels.

After this great social paddle we went to the Springfield Cafe for a well earned lunch.

Thanks to the Leaside Trust who treated Goodgym to this lovely canoe trip 🙌

11 Goodgymers arrived on this Funday Sunday task to help the Hoxton Trust with their compost area.

After a great introduction from Eslam we split up into smaller groups to tackle different areas of the composting process.

One group started turning compost and moving it into a specific area in the garden. Whilst the other starting filling the Jute Sacks, layering them like a lasagne with different ingredidents including Coffee Chaffs and twiggs.

It was great to see everyone getting stuck in, and having a go at the big wheelbarrow push over the compost hill! The garden has very little capacity so amazing to see such a big turn out to help them.

Welcome Hayder and Zharina to their first good deed! And well done Lobo and Rue for their second good deed of the day taking part in the weekly London Fields Park Run.

And well done to those that joined the social run, adding KMs to the January Challenge 🏃‍♀️

On a very wet and cold morning a group of intrepid Good Gymers, JO, john, Louise, and Nick, joined the London Fields Junior Parkrun core team to set up and marshal a quickly improvised wet weather route. Thankfully no one's spirits were dampened by the rain as lots of enthusiastic juniors put in epic performances to both run and orienteer around the course. With customary zeal the parkrun GoodGym combo made swift work of packing up in record time so we could all dash off somewhere warm and dry.