It's all light on the night

33 GGers ran 4-6km, helped Skip Garden & Castlehaven and did a time trial!

Welcome along to Eleonora whose first time it was last night, plus there was the return of lots of January newbies - lovely to have you all along.

In the news this week:

1. Well done to Lucy and George who have hit 50 good deeds in the last week - well done to you both! That's a whole lot of good!
2. Rosie Ashworth (Taskforce Member) made us some awesome brownies and flapjacks for us as she raising money for RISE, a charity which supports victims of domestic violence. If you'd like to donate in aid of brownie eating please go to her JustGiving Page here.
3. Go along to Victoria Park 10km on 25th February - great race to start the year!

Right onto last night, after a quick warm up we split into two groups to help Camden task favourites Castlehaven and Skip Garden.

Frances' Skip Garden Report:

Fifteen of us went to Skip Garden to help them get ready for Lumiere London. They were expecting loads of visitors over the next few nights and needed us to help with moving trip hazards and getting 70 litres of wine in the right place, something which Steve Coman was very keen to help with.

Wine please!

After we'd finished we did a couple of laps of Granary Square and then took turns to assign a variety of core exercises

Castlehaven Report by PB:

After a gentle mile of running we arrived at Castlehaven, an amazing community centre who help both young and old people with their services. They also look after two parks in the area and need help maintaining these - that's where we come in.

Despite it being January there was still some dead and wet leaves left in the gullys along the fences surrounding the park. We got to work armed with tools, bin bags and gloves. After 20 minutes we'd packed up 16 bags of leaves - nice!

Candle in the wind!

On our way to meet the other team we ran along the canal and took in the light festival as we approached Granary Square. Once there, the teams combined, we played the high knees game in the smoke and then lined up for our first time trial of the year! Everyone did amazingly, really pushing the pace! Chris came in first at 2.34, one second outside the course record - pretty good!

Next week we are off to one of our most important and impactful tasks at the American International Church to help make beds for the homeless - sign up here.

PB out.