Junk in the Trunks

28 Goodgymers helped their local community in Liverpool
Emma Nibbs
Sam Knott
George Bateman
Char Binns
Janet Woods
Lyn McGlinchey
Karen Wilding
Pauline Harrison
John Connaghan
Paul
Katie Liew
Yan
Becky Selman
Effie
Grace
Tim Dwyer
Keira
Basma
Louise Patterson
Becki Horton
Jon Sheppard
Lola Brocklesby
CRAIG JOHNSON
Gabriel Brocklesby
Joanna Irvine
Sandy Robinson
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Liverpool

Monday 19th August 2019

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Sam Knott
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A record-breaking 28 runners joined GoodGym Liverpool for some good-deeding in the sunshine at the Pagoda Centre.

An enormous group of runners ran the short distance (all down hill on the way there ;)) to a project we hadn't worked with before. Pagoda is the city's Chinese cultural and youth centre and home to the famous Chinese Youth Orchestra. Sadly, it is massively under-resourced and under-funded. Enter GoodGym, ready to offer our unique brand of people power to help out this brilliant project.

We split into 2 teams - indoors and outdoors. The indoors team did a cracking job of sweeping and mopping the centre's floors and washing down doors. Meanwhile, outside, there were some mega weeds to hack down, overhanging branches to clip back and general tidying and clearing around the centre's exterior.

This week we were made up to welcome a fantastic FIVE newbies. Great work Becki, Lola, Gabriel, Joanna and Sandy!

It was also wonderful to welcome back Karen, as well as Lyn and Jan - it's been too long x

As we finished up the task, the centre manager told us that they'd been wanting to tackle the mega weeds for 3 years. GoodGym ran in a tackled the job in half an hour. And we had fun doing it too. That's the power of GoodGym :)

Since the run to and from the task was pretty short this week, I made sure the team got sweaty at the fitness session and took them to cathedral gardens for some cheeky hills training. Everyone was panting but smiling by the end, so I'd say that was a job well done.

You were such an impressive bunch tonight, getting stuck in wherever you saw an opportunity to help. Nice one!

Want to do it all again next week? Make the most of your Bank Holiday Monday - find out more here.


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“We aspire to be a high quality organisation: to introduce Chinese Culture to a wide and diverse community and to develop our unique Youth Orchestra to be at the cutting edge of contemporary and classical Chinese and Western Music.”

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