All's well that ends yells
7 GoodGymers made their way to help their local community in Camden.
- Saturday, 13th of July 2019
- Led by Elizabeth
In the first of GoodGym Camden's 5 community mission bonanza today, 7 GoodGymmers met to help set up for the Somers Town Community festival. This included two brand new GoodGymmers, Aoife and Sean: Aoife had found out about us after volunteering at Story garden last Wednesday, when over 30 GoodGymmers ran to help out after Aoife's shift. Amazing work! ๐
After introducing ourselves to our contact, Jackie, we hung around for a few minutes before being siphoned off onto different tasks (or rather, volunteering ourselves to different tasks). Four of us were focused on moving (& setting up) some chairs in front of a stage. There was a little bit of concern about the effect such a seating area would have on some nearby parked cars, whose owners appear to have not noticed a 3 week notice to move their vehicle before the festival. This concern was short-lived.
Rejoining Abi and Fay at the table store, the chairtastic 4 switched majors to move all of the tables out of their storage. This was done at breakneck speed at the behest of a gentleman owning keys to the store: He had decided that he didn't like the tables being taken out of storage so early in the morning (10:15), and had consequently taken a unique position of insisting that they be removed from the storage as soon as possible ๐คท The vagaries of man are infinite. We happily obliged.
Tables removed, some of us carted them around the site on an independently minded trolly, while others knocked up a few gazebos. Sally appeared sometime mid-gazebo set-up and offered us lime and soda to quench our thirst.
Last of all came our final set-up task: making our own GoodGym stall look beautiful. Thanks to Toyin, Sally and Fay for your eyes on this ๐ค We were finally ready to start! ๐
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