Wandsworth

Community mission

There’s no Clause to our ‘Elfulness

5 GoodGymers made their way 1.4km to help the Evolve Housing and Support in Wandsworth.

  • Nicky West
  • Nicola Cage-Brimelow
  • Alyx Murray-Jackman
  • Kingston upon Thames runner
  • Pete White
 
Friday, 14th of December 2018
 
Led by Kingston upon Thames runner

Yule won't believe it, we found enough GoodGymers!

"Oh deer", I kept thinking in the run-up to the day - it was snow joke, it really did look like we weren't going to have enough hands to deck the halls and we were going to have to cancel this one. But, after a lot of help with promoting the mid-day mid-week community mission, we managed to rally up enough GoodGym hands to bring some festive cheer and 'elfulness to Asda. We were offering to pack bags at the checkouts to raise money for Evolve Housing and Support, an organisation that supports homeless people across London.

We're sleighing it

We did the festive, GoodGym version of Noah's Ark, arriving in pairs for our chosen shifts. Alyx and Pete kicked off the proceedings adorned in tinsel garlands, which they then passed on to Nicky and Nic (thanks for the festive tinsel Alyx, it really spruced things up). A special shout out to Pete, who had been "recruited" to the mission on his Westminster group run earlier in the week (the recruitment even came with support throughout completion of the mandatory community mission e-learning, thanks to the legendary "Kingston Kate") - we hope you enjoyed your first community mission Pete!

We were greeted by the very lovely Jazz from Evolve, who provided lots of encouragement and enthusiasm throughout and also took on the role of Chief Photographer - thanks Jazz, your help meant that we didn't have to take any 'elfies!. Hopefully we didn't disappoint with our festive attire - elves, santas, reindeer and tinsel all made an appearance!

Your presents is requested

We happily helped any customers who took us up on our offers and chatted away with them about Christmas plans and, of course, about Evolve. With preparations well and truly underway for Christmas socialising, we had lots of chances to flex our mini biceps and get some free weight training done, that's fir sure. It also gave the nosier ones of us the perfect opportunity to eye up the clothes, homeware and presents that were being bought. A slightly dangerous mission if you're partial to a spot of post-mission shopping...

A round of Santa-plaus...

Thank you all for sparing the middle of your Friday afternoon to raise money and awareness for Evolve! And thank you Nic for having come up with the pun before the mission even happened! You snow what they sleigh,

it's the most punderful time of the year.

Report written by Kingston upon Thames runner


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Nicola Cage-Brimelow
Nicola Cage-Brimelow
Friday December 14th, 2018 20:51

I ran 6.5 miles to be elful today!!!!! 😉

Kingston upon Thames runner
Kingston upon Thames runner
Friday December 14th, 2018 21:16

Yes, your fitness data was definitely far more impressive than my 7 mins very very short “sprint” session! I know my street very well now at least with all that running up and down!

Kate Haworth
Kate Haworth
Friday December 14th, 2018 21:31

Amazing mission report Samia! And thanks for the 'shout out'! It sounds like it was a fun mission. I wish I could've been there too but I chose a career with very inflexible working hours!

Kingston upon Thames runner
Kingston upon Thames runner
Saturday December 15th, 2018 06:41

We’ll have to make sure our next Jazz mission is outside of working hours - surely that’s when there are more commuters and shoppers anyway, and means that we get to have the company of Kate! Honoured that you approve of the run report, Hope you’ve got some chicken ones lined up for later!

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