Pimping up a red phone box or three

Preserving an iconic landmark for both residents and visitors to enjoy.


Location
Tap Tavern
Princes Street
Richmond
TW9 1ED
Date and time
18:45 - 20:30
Monday, 27th of July 2026
Who this task will support
Box Walks
We restore Richmond's iconic, red phone boxes and use them as destination points on nature-based walks. Each phone box is given a name and a theme. By visiting the phone box you can unlock interactive content which helps you reduce your environmental footprint on your doorstep. We would like to invite our Good Gym runners to use our routes for your runs and to help us keep our phone boxes in good conditions by giving them a good wipe down when you reach each one. We have been able to show that if the phone boxes are kept looking tidy, this reduces vandalism exponentially. Box Walks is a charity organisation which wants to bring our pone boxes out of retirement to do some good for our communities. We would love your help maintaining our phone boxes. You can see our routes and phone boxes on our website: https://boxwalks.com/

Box Walks is a charity that utilises Grade 2 listed red phone boxes to share environmental information and encourage people to walk between them on a route.

For this task we will be helping to clean three of the boxes in central Richmond. We will meet at the Tap Tavern and head to Richmond Green for running training and we will meet the task owner there. This task is very walkable too.

The task involves: brushing the area near the phone box clean, brushing the inside of the phone box, wiping down the phone box inside and out, cleaning the windows inside and out and finally, using a step ladder to clean the roof of the phone box. This is a light clean to remove solid particles and dust without affecting the paint work and integrity of the phone box.

Who's going

  • Liz
  • Richmond runner

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Location
Tap Tavern
Princes Street
Richmond
TW9 1ED
Date and time
18:45 - 20:30
Monday, 27th of July 2026
Who this task will support
Box Walks
We restore Richmond's iconic, red phone boxes and use them as destination points on nature-based walks. Each phone box is given a name and a theme. By visiting the phone box you can unlock interactive content which helps you reduce your environmental footprint on your doorstep. We would like to invite our Good Gym runners to use our routes for your runs and to help us keep our phone boxes in good conditions by giving them a good wipe down when you reach each one. We have been able to show that if the phone boxes are kept looking tidy, this reduces vandalism exponentially. Box Walks is a charity organisation which wants to bring our pone boxes out of retirement to do some good for our communities. We would love your help maintaining our phone boxes. You can see our routes and phone boxes on our website: https://boxwalks.com/
Walkable

You will be able to join a group walking to the task if you'd prefer not to run.

Options are available to run between 0km and 5km in total

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Tap Tavern
Princes Street
Richmond
TW9 1ED


Liz
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