Holy-port it's hot out there!

This evening's community mission took us South of Maidenhead to the pretty village of Holyport, where we were distributing leaflets for local charity Clean Conscience. And Holy-port it was hot! This heat-wave is unbe-leaflet-able!

Clean Conscience works with the luxury hotel industry to save discarded hotel toiletries from landfill. Collected soap is sorted, sterilised, reshaped and distributed to those in need of sanitation both close to home and abroad. Recovered plastics are baled and sent for recycling. Their volunteers include groups with disabilities, who also benefit immensely from being able to contribute to a positive initiative.

Like so many other organisations, they are having to adapt during the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst their hotel partners are largely closed, they are taking in donations of good quality clothes and other items. These are then either distributed to the charity's beneficiaries or sold in a lovely pop-up boutique that they have set up at their unit here at Thimble Farm Business Park.

You can find out more about this fantastic charity by reading the leaflet we were dropping (in the photos for this report) and by visiting and following their Facebook page here.

Running with me sock and blister

This evening's team included sisters Sophie and Claire. No, they're not cockneys, but we couldn't resist a vaguely running related sister pun! Sophie and Claire ran to the task from their sister hood of Cox Green, as well as running rings around Holyport with Amy during the task. By the end of the evening these two had proven the existence of a rumoured motorway bridge (twice!), blown kisses to three more family members, and each run a whopping blister-popping 10km in a sauna - huge kudos to you both! Hopefully no real blisters...

Date night

This evening's group also included newcomers, husband and wife team Matt and Ayesha. A very warm (heatwave-style) welcome to you both! We have quite a few husband and wife teams in Windsor and Maidenhead, but they are normally tag teaming on childcare duties, so we are not accustomed to seeing both halves at the same time. So, this was quite special! And how did we celebrate? Well once we'd compared trainers and levels of sweatiness, we sent them off for a walk by themselves....

So sorry guys! As the fifth team member, and the only one who hadn't brought her family along, Amy just couldn't bring herself to ruin date night by being the third wheel. Ayesha and Matt, we hope you had a lovely walk. Please promise you will come back for another group session so we can get to know you more.

Drop it like It's hot

By splitting into two small groups we were able to cover a wider area, and we estimate we dropped around 200 leaflets in total - brilliant!

Does this run report Touch(en) you? This needn't be the End.... If you are keen to help, there are more leaflets wanting to go through letter boxes in the nearby villages of Touchen-End, Fifield and beyond. Contact Amy at amylovell@goodgym.org if you would like to take a stack and post them on your run, walk or bike ride. It is a lovely green area to explore!