Hold on to your Hoses

28 GG Camdenites ran between 5-10k to help Abbey Community Centre and Ashdown Crescent Sheltered Housing

Lovely to have you all along! In the news this week:

1. People from Camden, Islington and all over the GoodGym world are meeting this week for our annual shindig to discuss the future of GG. If you have any feedback or suggestions please forward them onto me.
2. July's Long Run is this Sunday from Finsbury Park - see full details here.
3. There is a mission this Saturday helping to setup the Queens Crescent Community Festival - sign up here.

Sheltered Housing Task:

18 of us headed north to Kentish Town and beyond to help the amazing Sheltered Housing. Over 40 residents are housed and receive care through this fantastic organisation. The work we do makes a huge amount of difference, enabling people to use the garden more freely.

Our tasks were as follows:

• A general sweep up of the area, importantly including the decking which is going to be hosed down and varnished this week.
• Planting and watering the garden area.
• Clearing weeds and cutting back plants etc
• Laying new paving stones down

Over 30 minutes we made a huge impact and everything was looking top notch. While Chris and Katherine grappled with getting a hose over the wall, we took a group picture and sent off the first group to run home.

With a lovely down hill run home, the air got cooler and we were back in no time :)

Abbey Community Centre Tasking:

Pritesh led a team of 9 over Primrose Hill and beyond to help Abbey Community Centre - a fantastic local centre which works to help both the young and old in the community through various projects.

After a steady 5km the group got to work watering the garden, weeding and cleaning some trays which will be used for the local book club/exchange. George revealed some special skills by putting together some cake stands in record time before joining the gardening work. Nice work guys!

Sign for next week here, please look out for where we will be meeting.

PB out.