Bath

Group run

Mannequin Bookwalkers

6 GoodGymers made their way 3km to help the British Heart Foundation in Bath.

  • Mary Caudle
  • Holly
  • Kate
  • Jer Boon
  • Emily Kitson
  • Meyrick Williams
 
Sunday, 11th of December 2022
 
Led by Meyrick Williams
He/Him

And Lo it came to pass, on the second to last Sunday morn afore Christmas, it did snow. The weather is fickle and arbitrary of course; little did it know GoodGym had a Group Run to a very important Christmas Mission organised that very same morn.

In a first for me as Run Leader this introduced a Health and Safety risk I hadn't had cause to consider before. However we have all the correct comms channels and before any of us had even left our homes we discussed and agreed to cancel the run, ensuring at the same time that everyone was safe getting to the mission in the snow ok.

Team Assembled! And what a team: Mary, Holly, Kate, Jer, Emily and Meyrick arrived bang on time despite the weather. "We're basically the Avengers!" someone said; (that might have just been me and I'm not sure anyone was even listening).

The British Heart Foundation need no introduction and we have worked for them before. Back in the Autumn we helped relocate a veritable library of books from their shop in Green Street to the one on Westgate Street. This time, the Mission was twofold. Firstly, we needed to go out and purchase Christmas decorations with which we could decorate their Green Street shop window. Secondly there was more book ferrying to the other outlet in Westgate Street also required.

We split into two groups. Jer, Kate and Holly side-quested to find decorations (petty cash was supplied by them for this). This left Mary, Emily and Meyrick to start 'Book Walking' (there is a Mannequin involved as well, I'll come to that later).

Not 15 minutes later, Team Awesome and Team Amazing reconvened in Green Street and we set to work on the decorations. Serious commendations go to the creativity of the teams, working with just £12.50s worth of decorations and some empty cardboard boxes we found whilst raiding the back office. We covered the boxes with wrapping paper to make them look like presents, and then we gave the three Mannequins in the window a festive makeover. Think Grand Designs meets America's Next Top Model.

There was just time for one more book run before we left, the British Heart Foundation Bath now ready for the Christmas footfall. Ho Ho Ho.

Report written by Meyrick Williams


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