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19 Goodgymers ran 5-7k to help Camden Society and the Listening Space for Camden's 6th birthday

Thanks for coming along guys, I hope you enjoyed singing happy birthday to ourselves! Woop woop!

In the news this week:

1. Come to Goodgym Drinks tonight in Tottenham Court Road and to celebrate GG Camden's birthday - sign up here!
2. There is a Community Mission helping Crouch End Open Spaces next Sunday which ends with a free lunch - full details here.
3. Get signed up for the GG Olympics here. Details on events, a GG Anthem and more coming soon.

The Listening Space Report:

11 of us headed up the hill to The Listening Space, a new task for us which helps patients from the hospital get involved in community events and activities to encourage more social inclusion, and chiefly so people feel less isolated. They also provide counselling anf therapy services using the garden. There secret garden in the back is the centre for all of this!

Free Cake!

After our 2.5k run there we got to work we got to work with the following:

• Shifting compost and soil from outside the hospital to the back garden in wheelbarrows and bags.
• Moving huge planks of wood into the back garden
• Shifting bags of gravel to the same place.

All of this was the heavy lifting the patients and volunteers can't always do so it's really important for us for help. Over 30 minutes everyone worked really hard and fast to get loads done. We finished off with a group picture and some cake and biscuits before our run downhill home.

Camden Society Sorting T-shirts:

Kat and Abi led a group a group 3km up the road to Mailout, an enterprise which is part of a Camden Society - a fantastic charity which helps people with special needs and learning difficulties through providing work, opportunities and support. Mailout send out the GoodGym t-shirts, a continuous task that involves sending to over 50 areas and 1000's of people. A stock check is needed, but it seems an impossible task for Abi to check over 250 boxes on her own!

Upon the team's arrival they got to work counting the t-shirts in each box, with all the sizes, types and more available! Over 45 minutes the team got 98% of the stock check down before running home downhill.

Sign up for next week here when we'll be helping Age UK Camden and Cecil Sharp House.

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