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๐Ÿชก Upcycling workshop with Ealing Repair Cafe ๐Ÿงต Join us for 2.5km run to Acton or meet at the task!
๐Ÿ—“Today 7:00pm

๐Ÿ“Bodyline Studio W5 2AB

Make draught excluders or drawstring bags for those in need

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Kash went on a community mission

Mon 6th Oct at 8:00am

Stranger Oranger

Ealing Report written by Kash

A pallet packed with donated food for St Mary's Food Cupboard was already waiting in front of the church door for the early birds from the first volunteer shift. Wayne arrived just after 8am to open the door and let Kash, Roger and Gary unload the cartons with an abundance of exotic fruit: bananas, melons, limes, pineapples, and oranges.

Sevan came just in time to swap with Roger, and embarked on a task to sort oranges that had arrived in impressive quantities. He indentified the good, the bad, and the ugly citruses, and discarded the mouldy and the squashed ones.

Wayne and Gary tried to give out some of the oranges ahead of the afternoon distribution as there wasn't even enough space to display them. They offered fruit to the parents with children heading to the local school, yet, with not much success. Kash attempted only once to "sell" some surplus oranges, and found that the parents weren't very trusting to strangers - even the strangers emerging from the house of God. Ouch.

There was no better way to cope with such rejection than flattening cardboard boxes, carrying empty crates outside the church and energetic hoovering. Having conquered the slightly bad feeling with the power of good, Sevan and Kash finished the task and left the rest in the hands of the next shift of GoodGymers.

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Mon 6th Oct at 12:36pm

You've been Tango'd

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Kash signed up to a community mission.

Mon 6th Oct at 8:00am

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Sat 4th Oct at 10:00am

My way or the hay-way

Ealing Report written by Kash

As Storm Amy approached Ealing, a whirlwind of West London GoodGymers landed at Horsenden Farm. A strong team of seventeen hasn't been seen in Ealing for a long time. It took the joint forces of Ealing, Hounslow and Richmond to build a do-good brigade so large that it surprised even the task owner, Elsa, who scrambled to find more tasks for them.

We welcomed two new joiners, Bernadette and Tom, who chose to kick off their GoodGym adventure dangerously close to the Gruffalo Trail at Horsenden Hill. With such an impressive team, the chances of being eaten by a Gruffalo were close to zero. At the same time, the odds of having fun with good company while getting active in nature before eating carb-heavy, cheesy goodness from a local bakery were very high!

Our regulars from the Hounslow group runs had a chance to welcome back the unstoppable Lucy after the break she had to take in the last couple of weeks. Great to see you again, Lucy!

Two of the tasks given by Elsa had a lot to do with the mysterious disappearance of Horsenden pigs. The first assignment, taken by Steph Ducat, Iram, Kymm and Gus, was to transfer hay from the broken-down hay bales to the former pig quarters and spread it on the ground. I chose to believe it was to secure the traces of a pignapping crime until the arrival of the forensics team. Steph described the effort as hay-way to hell as the gusts of wind kept blowing the hay out of the wheelbarrows. Kymm reported there were as many techniques to spread the hay as GoodGymers: from gleeful tossing, through grumpy kicking to methodical arranging.

Sevan and Bernadette had a task of clearing weeds, mostly nettles, near the Horsenden Loaf pizza oven. Sevan shared that they were setting the stage for the hog roast the following day. That shed some light on the disappearance of the pigs - they must have escaped when they heard about the whole hog roast enterprise!

The largest squad undertook a mammoth job of clearing brambles to expand a meadow where the farm cows could graze to help establish a grassland with plenty of wildlife on the slope of Horsenden Hill. Gaby, Ariane, Tom, Mairaj, Maxime, Afshin, Thaiza, Lucy and Kash were chopping, lopping or slashing the blackberry invaders while Anita and Ash raked away the cuttings.

The cherry on a cake was that all the activity was observed through the lens of photographer Laura, who did a great job of not interrupting our tasks while capturing the spirit of GoodGym and the beauty of Horsenden Hill. We are hoping our part-time modelling gig today will help spread the word about GoodGym in the coming months. It will probably also disclose our soft spot for Horsenden pizza!

Inspired by today's task? Join the Horsenden session next month! Sign up now!

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Sun 5th Oct at 12:15am

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Sun 5th Oct at 1:30pm

Just wonderful to see such a huge GoodGym team assemble! Well done, everyone! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ

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Kash signed up to a group run.

Tue 14th Oct at 6:45pm

Gardening at St Mary's Church

Make the churchyard a nicer space for locals and for the congregation

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Kash signed up to a community mission.

Sun 19th Oct at 10:30am

Help provide clothes to refugees

Dignity, health and hygiene. Enabling people to leave home in clean clothes, not being embarrassed by their appearance.

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Kash signed up to a community mission.

Sat 25th Oct at 1:30pm

Help provide clothes to refugees

Dignity, health and hygiene. Enabling people to leave home in clean clothes, not being embarrassed by their appearance.

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Kash went on a group run

Wed 1st Oct at 6:30pm

Going the whole (hedge)hog!

Hounslow Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

Racing celebrations, a huge task under the light of a beautiful moon, and a star turn from a rarely spotted inhabitant of Chiswick House made for a great Wednesday night at GoodGym Hounslow!

Thanks to Michelle for leading the warm up, before we kicked off the evening with a short run to our regular task. We were fresh off the back of some great races at the weekend - a huge well done to Chris, Tish, Matt, Eloise and Steph for a fantastic run at the Vitality 10km, and to Alan and Florian for smashing the Ealing Half!

We arrived at a secret door to meet Chiswick House gardener Chris, who took us to a new spot or the group - the bee hives. The bees produce honey which is sold in the shop to raise money for the charity, and they want to make the area more accessible for school kids. Enter GoodGym!

The aim of the game was to remove all the undergrowth and anything else that was getting in the way. Everything had to go to create a new pathway, and with the green flag from Chris to adopt a scorched earth policy, we got to work!

We pulled, lopped and cleared, slowly but surely revealing a large area of land. Half way through the task, our mystery guest made an appearance - well done to Ariane for safely uncovering and rehoming a gorgeous hedgehog! He was in very safe hands, and was soon happily snuffling his way back to the woods.

By the end the task the area was truly transformed, great work everybody. We ran and walked back to base, where there was the option of a static core workout using the benches by the rockery. We worked our obliques, lower back and abs with a series of (slightly damp) exercises.

Next week we're off to Harvard Hill for some more gardening - please bring headtorches if you have them as this is a dark task.

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Thu 2nd Oct at 5:12pm

I ran the Ealing Half and smashed the tarmac ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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Kash signed up to a group run.

Wed 1st Oct at 6:30pm

Back to Chiswick House!

We're off for our regular visits to Chiswick House and Gardens

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Kash signed up to a group run.

Tue 7th Oct at 7:00pm

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Tue 30th Sep at 6:45pm

Sign your name across my half

Ealing Report written by Harvey Gallagher (he/him)

It takes two (teams of GoodGym Ealing people) to make a dream come true - the dream of the streets of Ealing free from the signs of an amazing community half marathon. And by the time our teams had finished, indeed, there were no signs! They were all unclipped and packed neatly away in some of those big blue bags that look a bit like the ones from a famous Scandinavian superstore. Ealing - where the streets have no signs, ahaaa...til next year's Ealing half marathon!

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Wed 1st Oct at 8:45am

Nice report. We should use "Where the streets have no signs" as next year's pun

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