Rachel Lewis

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Helping The Moulsecoomb Primary School
🗓Tuesday 2nd September 6:15pm

📍Queen Victoria Statue, Victoria Gardens, 1 Marlborough Pl, BN1 1UB

Provide support to an award winning primary school and community learning hub

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Tue 26th Aug at 6:15pm

Rooting for community composting!

Brighton Report written by Rosie Baker

This week, 12 GoodGymmers made their way to One Church on Florence road, to help them clear space for a community compost to be installed. One Church Brighton is a broad and inclusive church, who do lots of different activities in and around Brighton, from worship to running community cafes, and putting on events.

6 of us braved the run up Ditchling Road, while others made their own way via bike or walking - all of us arriving to a warm welcome from out host (and very own GoodGymmer!) Michael, and Danny from local skincare company My Skin Feels - whose generous donations are funding the new composting site, which will be used by the local community.

After collecting some rather serious looking tools, we all got stuck in clearing an old flower bed and leveling the soil. Although our enthusiasm quickly waned as we discovered just how difficult removing a tree from the root is 😄. Liam, Euan and Frances did a fantastic job digging and sawing until eventually the bulk of the tree root gave way.

Whilst some of us were busy playing lumberjacks, others set about clearing the church walls and flowerbeds from weeds and litter, ensuring the space looked it's very best for the community who uses it.

A big welcome this week to two first timers to Brighton GoodGym, Jorge and Tristian. We hope you had fun and that we'll see you at another task soon :)

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Tue 16th Sep at 6:00pm

Rose bed weeding in Vale Park

To keep a much loved and well used local park looking beautiful and cared for

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Olivia Powell
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis (she/her) signed up to a community mission.

Sat 13th Sep at 10:00am

Block Party in the Patch

Help support a community festival that brings people together

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Olivia Powell
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 9th Sep at 5:45pm

Autumnal Clean at the beautiful Waterhall rewilding site

Weeding and cleaning the clubhouse to be used for community and wellbeing activities

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Olivia Powell
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 2nd Sep at 6:15pm

Helping The Moulsecoomb Primary School

Provide support to an award winning primary school and community learning hub

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Olivia Powell
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis (she/her) signed up to a group run.

Tue 26th Aug at 6:15pm

Make way for a community compost scheme

This scheme will allow local community members to recycle their food waste locally and use the compost they make!

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Olivia Powell
Rachel Lewis
Rachel Lewis (she/her) went on a group run

Tue 19th Aug at 6:15pm

A clear path to peace

Brighton Report written by Jane Dallaway

We had a great turnout of runners, with 10 of us meeting at the Peace Statue and running to the task. Two others cycled to the site, and three more met us directly there, making a fantastic group of 14 ready to get to work. We welcomed new member Susie, and Charli returning for her second session, to the team.

We were helping out at St Thomas Fund, a residential rehabilitation service in Brighton & Hove run by the charity Change Grow Live. They offer a safe space for adults on their journey to becoming free of drugs and alcohol. Sean, who welcomed us, gave a fantastic introduction to the organisation, the site and their mission, explaining that our task was to transform a bindweed-covered area into a usable space for yoga and meditation.

The area was completely carpeted in weeds. We even found a rake that the tenacious bindweed had tried to consume! We had a laugh wondering how long you'd have to sunbathe before it took you over, too. But the team, including Sean, with tools and gloves provided by St Thomas Fund, made short work of it.

Nicola and Sarah did a particularly fantastic job of rescuing a fig tree from the grip of the bindweed. By the end of the session, the whole area looked transformed. You could see the soil in the beds again, and we filled somewhere between 10 and 20 bags with weeds and rubbish.

Sean seemed to be really happy with what we achieved, emphasizing how the collective effort of so many volunteers can make a huge difference in a short amount of time. It was a great feeling to see the space ready for residents to use for peaceful activities. A big thank you to Sean and St Thomas Fund for having us.

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Amro

Wed 20th Aug at 1:37pm

loved this task, the organiser, the center, the garden, the carrots, the people everything was like Goodgym is always like

Jack

Wed 20th Aug at 2:57pm

Great to see so many GoodGymers! 🙌

Jane Dallaway

Thu 21st Aug at 8:52am

Gorgeous feedback from the task owner: “Thank you so much for all your support with the garden, it’s looking absolutely amazing!” And “The residents were overjoyed with the results, and I share their excitement. We now have a usable garden, which will make a real difference to everyone here.” 🥰

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Tue 19th Aug at 6:15pm

Rehab a garden space for Change Grow Live

Help St Thomas Fund Rehabilitation Service to create a therapeutic green oasis

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Rachel Lewis (she/her) cheered by other people 25 times. 🥇

Saturday 9th August

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Rachel Lewis (she/her) cheered by other people 25 times.

Rachel is part of a crowd that's making a huge noise. Rachel has been cheered by 25 people - that's a round of applause just on their own. We hope they keep it up.

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Rachel Lewis (she/her) went on a group run

Tue 5th Aug at 6:15pm

Making Brighton Community Kitchen grate again!

Brighton Report written by Liam (He/him)

16 Goodgymmers made the short jog over to Brighton Community Kitchen on Queens Road for our regular clean-up mission. We welcomed new Goodgymmer Charli, who has recently made the big move from Worthing over to Brighton, for her first task.

The Brighton Community Kitchen does vital work in the community to teach valuable cooking skills to those who might otherwise might not have access. Recently they have been working with the Marcus Rashford-backed project to provide meals over the holidays to children who are eligible for free school dinners. They have hosted classes for both the children and their parents to impart practical day-to-day cooking skills.

We were excited to see that the Kitchen has recently been upgraded with new sinks and a Food Dehydrator. The dehydrator particularly allows them to preserve vegetables that wouldn't otherwise by used, store them and later use them as ingredients. There was a big batch of Tomatoes, Onions and Carrots in the dehyradator during our clean.

Jo greeted us with her usual enthusiasm and gratitude, along with her famous todo list on the wall. This time we cleaned all the windows both inside and out, transformed the drawers from chaos to order, gave all the stools and work surfaces a good cleandown, scrubbed the ovens and of course sorted the cheese graters! Our extra large turnout meant we were able to knock-off all the tasks in no time.

With our tasks finished and everything ticked off of Jo's list we sauntered off into the summer night back to our own (slightly less sparkly clean) kitchens.

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