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Hounslow

Washing the Turnham Green mural!
🗓Today 6:30pm

📍Chiswick Town Hall W4 4JN

Clean up this local piece of art

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Kymm
Kymm signed up to a group run.

Wed 6th Aug at 6:30pm

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Kymm went on a group run

Wed 23rd Jul at 6:30pm

No leafs just butts

Hounslow Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

Last night’s GoodGym mission took us to a local school to lend a helping hand to the brilliant team at Cultivate London — a charity that promotes urban agriculture, training opportunities, and community green spaces. Our task? To bag up an mountain of fallen leaves so that they can become mulch that Cultivate can use to nourish plants and sell to support their the charity.

We were picking up where GG Ealing left off the night before, and had a target number of bags to hit — challenge accepted! 💪 Armed with wheelbarrows, tonne bags, and sheer determination, we got to work.

Under the seasoned leadership of Maxime, our team got stuck in with the usual GG energy. Everyone brought their A-game and soon enough, bags were filling and wheelbarrows were being ferried across the playground.

The fitness element of the evening didn’t let us rest on our laurels either. We threw in a series of bun-boosting exercises to really feel the burn and strengthen those peachy (clementiney? Watermelony?) butts.

After a huge team effort, and a serious volume of leaves cleared, we ran back to base for a well-earned stretch

**Next week’s task is back at Chiswick House – hope to see you there!

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Kymm
Kymm signed up to a group run.

Wed 23rd Jul at 6:30pm

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Kymm
Kymm done 50 good deeds and got their black t-shirt 🥳

Wednesday 16th July

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Kymm done 50 good deeds and got their black t-shirt

The next time you see Kymm, they might be wearing black instead of red. They've completed 50 good deeds with GoodGym and have earnt their black t-shirt. Give them a nod when you next see them.

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StephDucat

Wed 16th Jul at 10:37pm

Congrats for reaching 50 good deeds

Ariane Dean

Wed 16th Jul at 10:50pm

Well done Kymm!!

Kymm
Kymm went on a group run

Wed 16th Jul at 6:30pm

Hack to Basics

Hounslow Report written by Emily Oldfield

Tonight we had people arriving by walking, cycling, and running, with Chris and Michelle leading us on the task. We were at one of our regular spots, Strand on the Green school, however tonight was a special occasion because it was Kymm's 50th good deed! Well done Kymm, you've made a huge difference to the local community in Hounslow and beyond, keep up the good work! Our mission was to cut back the overgrown bushes around the side of the school that were starting to obstruct the pavement, and give them a serious haircut. At first we were a bit reluctant because of their beautiful purple flowers, but then our hacking instincts took over and we attacked them with our usual vigour. We split the jobs of hacking and bagging up the offcuts and were done in good time. All in all a nice straightforward task successfully done!

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Kymm
Kymm signed up to a group run.

Wed 16th Jul at 6:30pm

Jobs at a local school

Get fit, do good, have fun!

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Kymm
Kymm went on a community mission

Sun 13th Jul at 1:30pm

Hoodiewinked

Ealing Report written by Sevan

Care4Calais had a big job for GoodGym this afternoon. To prepare around 130 packs of clothing for refugees in one hotel. Some of the residents had been given clothes previously and today, the second big delivery would complete the task.

Boxes of clothes were piled up waiting for the team, who welcomed back Mohamed for his first GoodGym Ealing task since moving back west 👋. The ask was fairly straight forward, to make standard clothing packs in a single size at a time, on a larger scale than normal. Everything was set up like a production line to make the system quick and easy:

  1. Open a bag 🛍️
  2. Place socks inside 🧦
  3. Hand on to the next person 🤜🤛
  4. Add men's underwear 🩲
  5. Add a hoodie 🧥
  6. Hand on to the next person 🤜🤛
  7. Add jogging bottoms 👖
  8. Add 2 t-shirts 👕👕
  9. Done ✅

With much of the clothing being black or navy, the team needed ways to make sure the right clothes ended up in the right bags.

"Are these hoodies or joggers?" - GoodGymer
"Which half naked man is on the pack?"
"The hoodies have topless men on them too, which doesn't make sense" - Tamzin, task owner

The "naked man process" worked up until the team realised that some packs had 2 hoodies and no trousers in them. Cue a rapid search through 40ish packs to identify which ones needed fixing.

Despite the hoodie issues early on, an improved system meant that the job of creating the packs finished early, with a range of small, medium, large and XL bags tightly packed into boxes.

After the rapid and fairly repetitive production line, came the slow, creative piece. Fitting all of those boxes into 2 family cars needed thought, inventiveness and some force. With both cars full to bursting and ready to be delivered to Care4Calais' beneficiaries, it was time to wrap up and wander home in the late afternoon sun.

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Kash

Sun 13th Jul at 7:26pm

Welcome back Mohamed. It was great to see you again you legend!

MOHAMED NAOUM

Mon 14th Jul at 12:40pm

Thanks al lot kash 🤚 It was great seeing you too always good vibes with you all around.

StephDucat

Mon 14th Jul at 10:08pm

Good to see you Mohamed

MOHAMED NAOUM

Thu 17th Jul at 8:47pm

Me too , pleased to meet you Steph , thanks 👍

Kymm
Kymm went on a community mission

Sun 13th Jul at 10:00am

What a Waderful World

Ealing Report written by Kash

The legend says that it was at Brent River Park's 50th birthday when Kash from GoodGym and Ben, the leader of Clean Up River Brent, fixed a date for a joint wading event in Pitshanger. When the day came, it became clear that the theme would be the famed balsam bash - the removal of invasive plants with stalks like giant celery and purple flowers of stunning beauty. The gorgeous flowers were particularly troublesome as they were starting to explode, sending hundreds of Himalayan Balsam seeds into the air and water.

The Balsam Bashers group assembled on Sunday morning at Pitshanger Park Bowls Pavilion. Rachel, Lara, Bob, and Martin were busy choosing the right size of waders and listening to Ben's health and safety brief. GoodGymers Sevan, Steph, and Kash were already in the park, after volunteering at junior parkrun and queuing for coffee at the park café. Kymm from GoodGym Hounslow, experienced with balsam bashing, joined them shortly to try on waders for the first time. The pair she got was not the most comfortable to walk in.

Kymm: "Are they supposed to be that harsh on the feet?"
Ben: "Is it some sort of grit? I actually like it, but I'm a masochist."

Comfortable or not, waders were worn by everyone to protect skin from Weil's disease and other nastiness hidden in contaminated water. They also shielded us from brambles, nettles, and even giant hogweed. With long rubber gloves, wading poles, and hi-viz, the team was ready for a serious adventure. We wandered west along the River Brent and found a suitable place to carefully descend from the bank. On a hot day, the water felt nice and cool through the waders.

Guided by the wading poles to avoid the treacherous drops in the river bed, we walked downstream, bashing the balsam on the way, some of us from the water, others occasionally from the bank. We went as far as the footbridge leading to St Benedict's School. Before heading off, we took with us some imposing balsam specimens for a special photoshoot by Martin Sapsed for his project documenting the work of volunteers across different fields. Sadly, we had to remove the best-looking flowers to minimise the risk of balsam seeding on the way. We think we still made quite an impression on the park visitors.

Passer-by: "It looks like a religious festival!"

Our pagan procession returned to the pavilion, where Martin assembled us for a carefully designed Balsam Basher group shot.

Martin: "I'm looking for a look of grim determination."

We gave Martin the most serious stares we could muster, then happily took off the waders as we felt we were starting to boil after having left the cooling water. Some would describe the atmosphere of getting released from waders as whiffy. Ben said it's been a year with the most wading involved so far and promised to give the rubbery equipment a thorough wash before the next session. We're looking forward to another CURB event to do good for biodiversity in Ealing and sweat in fresh waders again!

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Kymm
Kymm signed up to a community mission.

Sun 13th Jul at 10:00am

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Kymm
Kymm signed up to a community mission.

Sun 13th Jul 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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