To be Frank, we packed a lot in: Pushing the envelope at CVS Newcastle

23 Goodgymers helped their local community in Newcastle
Liz Bennett
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Anji Andrews
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Ross Dobson
Hazelle Webster-Costella
Paul Andrews
Tanya Johnson
Debbie English
Dan
Rachel
Kate Aspray
Dominic James Sutcliffe
Carol Anne Mclachlan
Jason Cochrane
Rebecca
David Brown
Michael Haile
Andrew Robson
Phil Hunter
Jasmine Warburton
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Newcastle

Monday 11th June 2018

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If there's one thing about Geordie GoodGymers it's that they love a challenge

This week the challenge was on. 1200 envelopes to pack with newsletters and magazines for CVS Newcastle and avoid paper cuts!

It was overcast in Toon for our first ever fully-indoor task as we welcomed newbies Hazelle and Rebecca to the GoodGym family. We piled up the stairs in to CVS Newcastle offices and got straight into packing teams, the majority of the group choosing, suspiciously, the room where the biscuits had been laid on. Every envelope had to be packed with a magazine, a leaflet and a letter before being addressed with a sticky label. Easy work for this group of legends Much packing and sticking started, with Paul in charge of the Franking machine with his day, week and life made.

Happy Days

1200 envelopes were packed and piled in just 35 minutes much to the delight of Martin and Sally from the CVS who tried to work out a mathematical equation of the time we had saved them... this job usually takes two members of their staff two whole days!

We completed an epic paired session of agility ladder drills and 200m laps around Higham House where Louise also gave us all a handy German lesson (paarlauf is NOT Polish, it would appear) before heading back to base at Hotel Indigo

Thanks everyone for proving that many hands do make light work. Again.

See you next week for our cycle path clear up with Sustrans. Keep an eye on the details as the distance may be subject to change. Sign up here

Happy Running! Anji


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