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19 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the Castlehaven Community Centre and Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead in Camden.

  • Pritesh Mistry
  • Steve Coman
  • Paul Bown
  • Frances Powrie
  • Steve Lee
  • Elizabeth Pang
  • Hayley Oberlander
  • Kat Kelly
  • Jacqui
  • Thomas Samuels
  • Hanry Alexander Heatherwick-Lammers
  • Katie Roberts
  • Abigail White
  • Sally
  • Elizabeth
  • Abi Perrin
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  • Dominic Weston
  • Jasvir Grewal
 
Wednesday, 28th of November 2018
 
Led by Paul Bown

19 Goodgymers ran between 4-10km to sweep leaves for Castlehaven and leaflet for Marie Cure

Welcome along to Dom and Jasvir whose first times it was last night!

In the news this week:

  1. The GG Christmas Party is this Saturday, please make sure you sign up here and pay your £4 here.
  2. Two long runs in December - North London on 9th here and South London on 16th here.
  3. The GG Raceteam have two places in the London Marathon to give away, you need to be a member of the raceteam and email Graham@goodgym.org if you want a place in the raffle. The more good deeds you get in December the more raffle spots you get - woah!
  4. GG Camden we'll be having a Christmas Party on Wednesday 12th December - full details here.

Castlehaven Report:

After we warmed, we talked about lots of news and fancy dress ideas for the Christmas Party on Saturday while we ran the 1.8km to Castlehaven Community Centre.

This fantastic centre provides green spaces for the local community, puts on educational activities for young people and works with older people as well. Our task for the evening was to sweep and collect up leaves in the park closest to Camden Market.

Leaf it out

We split into two's and three's armed with rakes, grabbers and black bags. We really gave the area and thorough going over, collecting up 10 bags in 25 minutes.

Once finished we took a group picture and ran a longer way home - nice!

Leafleting for Marie Curie:

Pritesh led a band of 6 on an adventure up the hill towards Belsize Park and Hampstead to deliver leaflets for Marie Curie's Lights to Remember Event (taking place on 8th December). This is their annual remembrance event, which brings people together to remember their loved ones. They have readings and music and light candles before enjoying tea and mince pies. Anyone is welcome to join us too should they wish.

After a 4km run up hill the team collected a massive 500 leaflets to distribute around the local area, sticking in pairs so not to get lost. On the way back home they went over Primrose Hill and as you can see from the photos it was a glorious view!

Sign up here for next week's tasks when we'll be helping Scope Charity Shop.

PB out

Report written by Paul Bown


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John Shirley
John Shirley
Thursday November 29th, 2018 16:02

The North London Long Run's on the 9th.

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Paul Bown
Led by Paul Bown

Previous Trainer for Camden and Islington, England Athletics Qualified Endurance Coach, 2h51 marathoner, & big sweet potato advocate

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