Bristol

Group run

Raised out our beds for a pizza the action

55 GoodGymers made their way 4.4km to help the Redcliffe and Hotwells Community Development in Bristol.

  • Kim Dowsett
  • Christopher Lewis
  • Caroline
  • Nick Baker
  • Bristol runner
  • Paul Becker
  • Bristol runner
  • Danica Priest
  • Bristol runner
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Sophie Chilcott
  • Richard Breakspear
  • Darren
  • Alice Whale
  • Kathryn
  • Bristol runner
  • Shona Buchanan
  • Bristol runner
  • Mair Smith
  • Hannah Wedge
  • Bristol runner
  • Jack Bradley
  • Georgina
  • Felicity
  • Shreena Parmar
  • Jenny Chak
  • Liam Scott
  • Kait Kirwan
  • Tim
  • Julie M
  • Laura Spencer
  • Zdeni Cervena
  • Russ Cahill
  • Katrina Tumilty
  • Bristol runner
  • Fiona Kelk
  • Joe Hounsham
  • Freddie
  • Bristol runner
  • Chris Palmer
  • Georgia Merrell
  • Saskia Felstead
  • Lisa Pearce
  • Lia Herbert
  • Simon Freakley
  • Tom Le Fanu
  • Molly McDonald
  • Joanne
  • Paulina Dubiel
  • Janine Mariani
  • Lydia
  • Shrey Jain
  • Grace Tribe
  • Johanna Rustler
  • Rahul
 
Tuesday, 7th of May 2019
 
Led by Shona Buchanan

It was great to have Sophie, Fiona, Lydia, Shrey, Grace, Johanna and Rahul join us for the first time tonight on another busy evening with lots of people joining us as part of Week 2 of the Bristol SU's Mind Your Head campaign.

Before we got going we had a long list of well dones for this active crowd who had been running around the country over the bank holiday and were feeling tired tonight for very different reasons to why I did. Not only that, but we got to celebrate Paul's birthday and 5 Year Group Run Streak!

Art Attack

Then we split into two groups for tonight's good deeds. Alice wonderfully led a group to Southville to do some last minute awareness raising for this weekend's Southville Art Fair on behalf of BS3 Community. It turned into quite the social affair as several GoodGymers bumped into people they knew along the way and from behind the letterboxes! Before long the group had distributed the pile of hundreds of leaflets and made a massive difference for the group ahead of Saturday's event.

Camouflage

The rest of us headed to Holy Trinity church is Hotwells where we were helping Redcliffe and Hotwells Development Group with various tasks. The main task for the night was clearing an extremely overgrown area to create an area for a vegetable patch for the local gardening group to use. As this area is often used for anti-social behaviour then this will have a big impact on the local area. The group also did an incredible job of lopping back all the brambles, branches, weeds and nettles sticking over the pathway to the side of the church, deweeding the path itself (including lifting a massive moss jacket which Liam made look like an outfit from last night's Met Gala and was rivalled only by Shreena's weed-dress), refreshing the raised beds for the summer and putting a new raised bed in place (by Team Strong). Not only this, but some of the group also made a crack at delivering some of their 900 leaflets advertising the gardening club and other activities happening in the area.

In 30 minutes all of these tasks had been completed beyond Suzanne from the charity's expectations. We had time for juice and biscuits before hitting the road, with a cheeky plank stop and sprint home to spice things up on the way.

We headed back and then celebrated May's GoodGym Eats with pizza and cider at The Stable - thank you to Danica for organising!

Report written by Shona Buchanan


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Zdeni Cervena
Zdeni Cervena
Tuesday May 7th, 2019 22:57

So odd to see the church in the daylight 😆😆

Shona Buchanan
Shona Buchanan
Tuesday May 7th, 2019 23:12

I know, isn't it?!

Danica Priest
Danica Priest
She/her
Wednesday May 8th, 2019 00:10

That pic of Liam is the best!!

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Shona Buchanan
Led by Shona Buchanan

Continually running for that finishing slice of cake.

GoodGymers helping out
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    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Paul Becker
    • Danica Priest
    • Alice Whale
    • Tim

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