Sandbags and Gladrags!

It was a chilly November evening and 5 GoodGym volunteers put their running gear on to run to Peter Pan Pre-School in Lower Weston and help improve their playground. We ran nearly 6km in total and got a great workout moving items around and re-sanding their astroturf. A rewarding and mindful way to spend a Tuesday evening!

A Winter Feast at the weekend

As per usual we met outside the leisure centre. There were hundreds of young people milling about in reception and so to avoid the crowds we stayed outside for the briefing and warm-up. I mentioned a fantastic Community Mission that we have arranged to help out at this weekend. We have been asked to help prepare and serve a charity Winter Feast to support some great organisations. More details here. After a warm-up we were on our way running through the city centre, along Upper Bristol Road and to Lower Weston.

Never shying away from work at Neverland!

The staff and volunteers at the school had already started setting up for us and we were ready to get going immediately! Peter Pan is a pre-school in Lower Weston for children. They have a fantastic outdoor play area that is covered in astroturf to make it accessible in all weather conditions. Unfortunately, the mud below the astroturf layer comes up through the surface making the play area slipper, dangerous and very dirty.

Our task for the evening was to move play equipment and logs and use brooms to distribute sand across the entire play area. We had 6 big bags of sand, lots of work to do and not a lot of time! Fortunately we also had our great GoodGym work ethic and we pulled together as a team to get everything done in time.

Hopefully we will be back again to help the school next year with more outdoor tasks they need help with.

Thanks!

Thanks to the team at the school for setting up for us and hosting us for the evening! Thanks to Emily for backmarking for us and thanks also to Emily for the fantastic sand-themed pun this week!

Upcoming

• At the weekend we have been asked to help at a charity Winter Feast
• Next week we are flyering for Bath City FC