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Goodgym tidyings of great joy

31 GoodGymers made their way 3.0km to help the Emmaus Bristol in Bristol.

  • Bristol runner
  • Charlie
  • Caroline
  • Tom Palmer
  • Chris Bennett
  • Paul Becker
  • Rachel G
  • Lisa Elliott
  • Bristol runner
  • Alice Whale
  • Melanie Young
  • Ciara Hovey
  • Tom Hill
  • Bristol runner
  • Bristol runner
  • Vito Huang
  • Ian Armstrong
  • Fiona Lewis
  • Georgina
  • Vicki Rutter
  • Alexis Wiseman
  • Liam Scott
  • Jonny Lupton
  • Kait Kirwan
  • Natasha Bliss
  • Sarah
  • Abigail Rowlatt
  • Olivia Young
  • Tim
  • Flo
  • Ligita
 
Tuesday, 21st of November 2017
 
Led by Paul Becker
he/him

A mathematical warm up tonight with odds, evens, high 5s and even some prime numbers before we all headed off to Emmaus. Splitting into two groups with Charlie helping to lead the second we made short work of the 1.5k distance.

On arrival, Xanne described how Emmaus provides accomodation and training for people who were previously homeless, helping them to get back into work again either in Emmaus' own shops, taking on PAT testing, house clearances or simply going on to find a job outside the community.

We were then given our task for the evening and amazingly Christmas had come early for Bristol Goodgym! We were to get all the Christmas decorations out of storage and sort them either for sale or for use in the shop displays.

Kait quickly saw the potential for a human chain to move the decorations to the ground floor and in no time we had groups sorting tinsel from baubles while sporting various festive garments and in some cases breaking into some Christmas singing!

Several people were tasked with test-assembling Christmas trees to make sure all the parts were there and it was heart-warming to see how these individuals quickly bonded with their trees. See the photos for evidence of this. Does Dave look proud of little Samyule? What about Liam - a little protective of Uncle Firn? And surely Lisa is particularly chuffed with baby Noel!

Another group tackled the largest of the trees, puzzling out all the colour coded branches - while Mel set about testing the Christmas lights to make sure they worked. Another group set to work decorating one of the trees .

By the end we had boxes of decorations ready for sale and trees all ready for display. With a festive group photo in the bag, we headed back to base, squeezing in a few step-ups and squats on the way back to help ensure we can all fit into our Christmas jumpers next month,

Report written by Paul Becker


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