Islington

Group run

It’ll Be All Light On The Night

16 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the The Single Homeless Project in Islington.

  • Steve Coman
  • George Bright
  • Frances Powrie
  • Steve Lee
  • Islington runner
  • James Gilbert
  • Clare Reeder
  • Alison
  • Claire C
  • Rhona Mackie
  • Florianeortega
  • Julie Fisher
  • Susan Bentley
  • Ellie Simpson
  • Daniel Milne
  • Tim
 
Monday, 10th of December 2018
 
Led by Steve Lee

It’s definitely headtorch season! On a dark and not-too-chilly evening GoodGym Islington assembled at our regular spot in the Arsenal Emirates, with Steve Lee leading the run while regular Islington Trainer Paul Bown was away on holiday eating lots of those lovely Portuguese custard tarts.

A few quick announcements, including next week’s GoodGym Islington Xmas Party (sign up here) and a nudge to sign up to missions in the coming weeks - there are slots available in Islington and it’s the time of year that can make the world of difference to the people we do missions for.

A quick warm-up and we were headed north a few quick km to the Single Homeless Project (thanks to James, Claire and Steve C for back-marking!)

SHP’s Sam was waiting for us with a smile and a shed-full of tools to get to work weeding, bagging up leaves and tidying the back gardens of not one, but two housing projects. The Single Homeless Project work across London with vulnerable and socially excluded people going through difficult times in their lives to provide a much-needed safety net of care and housing support. Having a nice garden area to relax in and tend to is a real benefit.

Sam and Steve flitted back and forth between the two garden groups and despite the dark evening, could see a lot of good going on. Paths and beds were weeded, patios were tidied and swept, and we nearly ran out of bags for the leaves that will be mulched (GoodGym provides us with some cursory gardening knowledge over time but our best working definition of mulch was still George’s ‘mulching turns plants into cannibals’).

We took a different route on the way back - a bit less road traffic but more pedestrians to carefully weave our way through - and in no time we were back at our GG Islington base for a stretch, and of course, biscuits (thanks to Kike for bringing us the spoils of an online shopping delivery error - delicious!).

Paul will be resuming our regular programming next week, and don’t forget to sign up if you’d like to join us for the GG Islington festive dinner at the Italian restaurant we have booked!

Have a great week everyone!

Report written by Steve Lee


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GoodGymers helping out
  • Back markers

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • Steve Coman
    • James Gilbert
    • Claire C

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