Tue 17th Jan 2023 at 6:30pm
Kingston upon Thames Report written by Rachel White
Our Tuesday Group Run task was back at Balance Support to help finish off the painting. They had the paint and willing volunteers from their office but there's nothing like a little GoodGym action to speed up the task in hand. We met with Fran and Lila and they showed us where a second coat of paint was needed - we grabbed rollers and brushes and got to work.
In the middle room, Claire, Petra and Jade worked as a team to do the cutting in round the window. Dave hopped on the ladder and did the cutting in at the top of the walls and Rachel rollered in between.
In the furthest room, Catherine and Laurel started the second coat of cutting in and rollering - a dream team! Pierre and Janet helped to build two office chairs and helped with all the other extra little jobs that are necessary in such a big project like this.
It was lovely to meet up again and the hour flew by. The walls looked amazing and a quick glance in the kitchen where the walls were the original mucky magnolia colour showed us how much had been done in a short amount of time. Great task and a brilliant turn out by GoodGym - thank you to everyone who helped out on such a frosty evening.
Tue 17th Jan 2023 at 6:30pm
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Pierre DUPONT has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Pierre is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.
Tue 10th Jan 2023 at 6:30pm
Kingston upon Thames Report written by Rachel White
What better way for GoodGym to help a charity than set up a gym for the British Heart Foundation! They had all the equipment in storage and the space on the floor, they just needed the muscle to get it all into position. Who ya gonna call? GoodGym-busters!
After a brief meet at the Quaker Centre where we got to welcome three new attendees, Janet, Pierre and Catherine, we headed off to Fairfield for a little warm-up in the light rain. We split into two groups of runners and walkers and started our different paths to the BHF shop in Eden Walk Shopping Centre.
We were greeted by Christine, the store manager, and she welcomed us with an enticing table full of pizza, fruit and water. She explained the task and once we had finished with the snacks, half the group were taken to the storage area where all the donated stock is kept. All the exercise equipment was loaded into the lifts and the other half of the team were on standby waiting to unload and set up in the entrance area. What a great way to get the muscles working - squats, lifts, pulling and pushing - a great overall workout!
It took the full hour to move everything into place and arrange it to entice the shoppers to buy when they visited the next day. Really fun and what better way to head to the social at The Albion than with a belly full of pizza - yum.
Tue 10th Jan 2023 at 6:30pm