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Leicester
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Supporting mental health
Fri 17th May at 10:30am
Fri 10th May at 10:30am
Leicester Report written by Sarah
5 fantastic GoodGymmers came help Braunstone Community Primary School create an allotment to grow fruits and vegetables. Back for the second week as there's so much hands on work to be done and the sun was shining.
Everyone got stuck in clearing out all the weeds and brambles, Nick and Stu had their hands full with the roots on one of the brambles, it looks more like a small tree!
Jimmy and Dawn cleared all around the pond, I had to warn Jimmy there was no swimming today.
Fantastic work team, your efforts are really appreciated and great to see you all, keeping fit whilst doing good.
Fri 10th May at 10:30am
To support their project to help the children grow produce to support most vulnerable families
Read moreFri 26th Apr at 10:30am
Leicester Report written by Sarah
3 GoodGymmers helped support the Menphy's charity with their leafletting the local area close to their Charity shop on Latimer Street.
Stu ran to the task and by the looks of him when he arrived, very fast! Dawn walked to her lift to the task.
We were super speedy with terraced houses but did have quite a walk from the charity shop, covering over 3 miles in total, fantastic efforts both pleased you could join in today.
Fri 19th Apr at 10:30am
Leicester Report written by Sarah
7 Goodgymmers went to lend a hand at Saffron Acres Allotments. Today's task was to a move a tarpaulin cover so that the lawn mower could squeeze down the isle. Second task was to weed around the hazel trees freeing them from being choked by brambles and hawthorn.
Both tasks were deffinatly a case of more hands make for a lighter load, with a fantastic turnout of 7 we were well on our way, with the first task taking only 10 mins. We were trimming away brambles in no time we had 3 full wheel barrows of spikey brambles, Dave did the honours of walking the plank into the compost bin.
Dave also did a spot of bird sound spotting with his special app that tells you the birds it can hear in the area, among the birds were European Greenfinch, Carrion crow and Chiffchaff.
After the task we walked around Aylestone recreation park to check out their newish gym equipment
Mel and Dave off to London to support their son running the marathon for Bliss baby loss charity, Nick is joining the GoodGym support crew along with Ashley.
Fantastic work team, love the variety at Saffron Acres we never know what we will be up to next and nice to see blossom and bluebells this time, we'll be back again soon.
Fri 12th Apr at 11:30am
Leicester Report written by Sarah
Who knew that Sainsbury's slogan is now 'Good food for all of us'?
5 Goodgymmers took part in the Food Bank Run, a movement created by Hampshire based running club, Fareham Running Club, encouraging every group to create their own Food Bank Run. With backpacks filled we carried our donations to our local Foodbank donation site in Sainsbury's.
Nick had suggested bringing the litter pickers too which was a great idea, there's always plenty of litter on this route with fast-food outlets galore and tin can alley. 2 full bags of rubbish on our travels.
Shout out to Gareth on his first GoodGym Good deed and first completely new member of the year. Great to meet you and chat about your trail running adventures, hopefully see you again.
Lovely to see Lynn and hear about her first Run Director role at Junior parkrun, enjoy your parkrun tourism tomorrow along with Mel and Stu. Great morning walk with a purpose and lovely sociable walk in the sunshine.
Weldone all coming along and giving so much enthusiasm to the task.
Fri 5th Apr at 10:30am
Leicester Report written by Sarah
4 fantastic Goodgymers came for a morning walk to help deliver the Braunstone Alert, a brochure by the charity B-inspired, informing the community about the events they have and the valuable foodshare service they offer.
We worked as 2 teams delivering meeting back up at the end of streets with bungalows, more hands made for lighter load and the task was complete in no time. Brilliant to have Cliff join us today using one of his community days from his work, good to see you.
Although we missed Goodgymmer Dawn on the session she had made an amazing chocolate cake for my birthday for us to have a slice with hot drinks after the task, very much appreciated, her cakes are delicious!
Weldone everyone great to see you all keep doing good and keeping fit.
Thu 18th Apr at 10:23pm
Ooo, Dawn’s chocolate cake sounds good. Were there Pictures of Kris in the leaflet?!
Fri 19th Apr at 10:30am
Saffron Acres is an award-winning open space in the centre of the Saffron Lane estate
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