Camden

Group run

Stock! Hammer Time!

37 GoodGymers made their way 5.0km to help the C4WS and Scope Camden Charity Shop in Camden.

  • Ricardo Sinclair
  • John Shirley
  • Jacqueline Shirley
  • George
  • Ben
  • Elizabeth Pang
  • Removed User
  • Camden runner
  • Kat Kelly
  • Rosie Ashworth
  • Thomas Samuels
  • Natasha Lawrence
  • Lizzy
  • Hanry Alexander Heatherwick-Lammers
  • Abigail White
  • Leanne
  • CJ Jessup
  • Sophie Ridewood
  • Lucy Victor
  • Sally
  • Alysson Seward
  • Elizabeth
  • Abi Perrin
  • Tilly Dyson
  • Ealing runner
  • Mumtaz
  • Rea Qunta
  • Laura Peces-Barba Castano
  • Anna
  • Emma
  • Poppy Warner-Leicester
  • Rebecca Gobbi
  • Andy Koester
  • Charlotte Owen
  • Barnet runner
  • Laura Bell
  • Hanna Tesciuba
 
Wednesday, 27th of November 2019
 
Led by Ben

LET’S EAT PIZZA! So, GoodGym Camden are going to eat pizza at Happy Face on the 11th December after our run. TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO SIGN UP, so please get your name down if you want to come!


37 (!!!) brave and intrepid GoodGymers made it out to GoodGym Camden on a drizzly Wednesday night for another two-task night. We welcomed a shiny new person to the Camden herd - hello Hanna, I hope you enjoyed yourselves tonight.

Next week's run will be to C4WS again as well as back to Cecil Sharp House - sign up here if you want to get ahead of the game!

After a quick intro, we stretched and split up into two groups - C4WS (the Homeless Shelter) was led by our trusty light provider Hanry, the Scope group by me.

Arriving at Scope just before 7:30, we stormed the shop, met Helen and her incredibly organised list of activities for us to get stuck into before we split into teams:

  • Team Jewellery
  • Team Shoes
  • Team Rag or Bag
  • Team Shirley
  • And finally, what can only be described as Team Fancy Dress.

A monster task - and one that we’ll definitely have to come back to - was to sort and price jewellery for the shop. No special marks for correctly identifying that this was Team Jewellery’s domain!

Also down on the shop floor there was some dusting, cleaning and organising of a shoe rack to be done, efficiently tackled by Team Shoes.

In the back we had Team Rag og Bag running a tight ship, leading the sort through of donations into bags that the shop will keep and sell and one they’ll recycle. Like a little production line of elves, they worked away right until the final minute we were there.

Upstairs were both Team Shirley (the brilliant husband and wife team of John and Jackie and Team Fancy Dress. Team Shirley were in charge with cleaning the upstairs bannisters, kitchen and floors which they did magnificently if I say so myself.

Finally, Team Fancy Dress! De-facto led by Rosie in a jumpsuit/Oompa Loompa dual-purpose item, there was steaming, sorting through, pricing and tagging clothes to go out onto the shop floor. See the photos for some particularly sharp Christmas suits, great wigs and strong Christmas jumpers!

Just gone 8pm, we waved goodbye to Helen and headed back to the Living Centre to meet back up with Hanry’s homeless shelter team for a final stretch and cool down.

Over at C4WS, the team did a fantastic job of making up 16 male beds and 4 female beds for the homeless users of the church. Jonathan was very impressed with what you achieved, so well done everyone! After the task was done there, it was a run over to Granary Square for some laps and fitness before heading back and regrouping.

We had a particularly good turnout at the pub after the run tonight. Everyone is welcome and it’s a great way to carry on chatting to GoodGym folks over a drink. Abi is the de-facto pub leader, and I know she’d love to see you there if you fancy coming along next time.

COMMUNITY MISSION ALERT: David from Russell Square Garden got in touch to say how impressed he was with our work a few weeks ago in the bulb-planting and fence-post-putting-up and asked if we might be able to come and [clear some leaves this Saturday 2:30-4:30.] Please do come along and help out - Liz is bringing cake!

NEXT WEEK: We’re going to be running back to the Home of Folk (Cecil Sharp) and C4WS again next week for some more leaf-clearing and bed-making. Would be great to see you there and you should definitely sign up now!

LET’S EAT PIZZA: So GoodGym Camden are going to eat pizza at Happy Face on the 11th December after our run. TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO SIGN UP, so please get your name down if you want to come.

Happy running,

Ben

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Previous Trainer for GoodGym Camden. Love a squidgy, slightly underbaked triple chocolate brownie. Running is a jam.

GoodGymers helping out
  • Back marker

    Make sure that no one is left behind

    • John Shirley
  • Photographer

    Take photos for the session report

    • Rosie Ashworth
  • Walk Leader

    Lead a walking group to the task

    • Abi Perrin

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