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Litter-ally Ain’t No Stopping Us!

6 GoodGymers made their way to help the Shepherds Bush Families Project in Hammersmith and Fulham.

  • Katie Allan
  • Latoya Stephens
  • Abi Perrin
  • Eloise Carey
  • Lucy Hill
  • Harriet
 
Thursday, 2nd of January 2020
 
Led by Lucy Hill

It wasn’t the greatest of starts to the new year, as the original task of helping to move furniture and restoring the hall at the Shepherd’s Bush Families Project didn’t quite go to plan. However, the GoodGym perseverance always pulls through - we couldn’t go through all the effort to get a good deed in and then fall at the final hurdle - especially with the lure of the January Challenge!

Instead, six of us thought we would do good in a different way, after spotting Celebrations wrappers on the floor, we got litter picking instead.

Abi, in true GoodGym spirit, whipped out her gloves and a bin bag before we had even made it to The Green, and got stuck in straight away, collecting chocolate wrappers and bottle tops galore. Meanwhile Lucy created a unique rubbish bag-cum-gauntlet to keep everyone’s hands clean, Kate separated out the recycling and sourced bins, while Latoya and Eloise amassed the worlds biggest collection of bottle tops (mainly Guinness, for those interested).

Harriet joined Lucy later on and filled up a bag with plastic straws, caps and Festive paraphernalia - balloons, Prosecco corks and just about every Christmas chocolate wrapper imaginable (Celebrations, Roses, Heroes, Quality Street...)!

It might have been a bit of a rubbish task, but plenty of litter was bagged up and there were good deeds tallied up for the January challenge!

Report written by Lucy Hill


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