Varnishing act!

19 awesome runners ran 5km to help at the Mefa Montessori!

It was celebrations twice over yesterday as the amazing Amy and Steve both hit their hundredth good deed!

Amy has been one of our longest standing members, doing good since March 2016! For those of you who don't know, she's also pretty quick.. She ran the London Marathon this year in a lightning fast 2:57! To have a marathon time that starts with a 2 is something that most people only dream about but she made it look effortless! Well done Amy, keep up the good deeding and fast running :):):)

Steve has been coming to GoodGym for 3 years and in that time has seen his running go from strength to strength, completing multiple marathons and earlier this year did 3 in 4 weeks... ouch! So many amazing achievements and never without a gigantic smile on his face! Keep up the great work Steve! Looking forward to your next running challenge :):):)

We did a quick little warm up and then headed off for our run to the Montessori! If you don't know what a Montessori is (I didn't before I started coming here with GoodGym!) it is a type of education method that centres very much around sensory learning and the Mefa Montessori specialises in teaching children and adults with autism. They have recently done up the back garden and turned it into a lovely forest school. On our previous visit we varnished the shed, but this time it was the fence's turn!

We split the group up, 8 people headed off to do the fence. Meanwhile we needed a tall person to help feed the grape vine through a trellis so Linda kindly volunteered hahahaha! Marta who by the way has recently gone through a whopping 200 good deeds(!!!!!),took a broom to sweep away the cobwebs from the windows. The rest of the crew headed out front to do some weeding between the paving slabs and clear the leaves!

After half an hour, we sadly ran out of varnish. That fence was just lapping it up. We just about finished it, with one small patch not quite done but it's where the shed lives anyway so not the end of the world! We gathered all the weeds, gave the place a sweep, put the plants back in their place and tidied the brushes and buckets away and we were done! After a quick photo we headed back to the uni the way we came, had a little stretch and then celebrated with loads of biscuits, pies, brownies and flapjacks! YUM!

Community mission at Charlton House

Here is the link to the Charlton House pop up kitchen event next Thursday. If you can spare an hour or 2 between midday and around 8pm then it would be hugely appreciated!!

Great job last night everyone! Fantastic running and lovely work at the task as well! See you next week where we will be back at St Lukes!