Hackney

Group run

Tipping point

24 GoodGymers made their way 7.4km to help their local community in Hackney.

  • Cath
  • anne malcolm
  • Patrick Luong
  • Joel Wiles
  • Amy Foster
  • Christophe
  • Alex Passa
  • Mireille
  • Toyin
  • Clair Sim
  • Vinney White
  • Elizabeth
  • Amanda Bater
  • Hackney runner
  • Andrea Lo
  • Josh Southern
  • Amanda Norrlander
  • Sophia
  • Roy Martin
  • Jess Bridgman
  • Helena
  • Nick Moore
  • Hackney runner
  • Isaac Kirk
 
Tuesday, 21st of January 2020
 
Led by Joel Wiles

24 Hackney GoodGymers ran 6k to Abney Park Cemetery to shovel 2 tonnes of mulch to complete the final mulch path of the Winter!

Great job by a great team this evening!! Great to see the experienced GoodGymers going strong and guiding the new runners at the beginning of what will Be an awesome GG journey!!

3k our to Stokey to meet Park ranger Quentin at the magical Abney Park Cemetery! Grabbing the narrows, lights, rakes and shovels we headed off to the far corner of the park to find the last remaining unmulched path.

Trying to create the most lite pathway to allow for easy barrowing we kind of succeeded but it was still a bit of an adventure!

A rotating team of Shovellers kept the barrows rolling at a great pace and mulch pile going down fast!

Zipping around the loop tipping out the mulch and dancing the moguls back to the Shovellers on repeat! A great pace was set and we managed to pretty much complete the 2 tonne pile of mulch in 40 minutes of action!!

Our mulching efforts are a massive help to the park as it helps to enable all the park to remain accessible to more people throughout the year! This helps look after the historic grave site as well as curb antisocial behaviour!

As we completed the path and dropped off the tools with an excellent job complete Quinten announced that Abney has just found out that their application for a multimillion pound refurbishment of the historic building in Abney has been successful!! This is a massive boost to not only the park but the local community! Was amazing to hear the our work going to Abney each month was a major contributor to the application helping to show high volumes and consistent volunteering as well as community engagement!!

Not only that but Jatin will be running the London Marathon in aid of Abney this year!! Let’s all help him along in his training and fundraising!!

See you next week for our visit to Hackney Parks!!

Enjoy

Joel

p.s Thanks Liz for the pictures!!

Report written by Joel Wiles


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Hackney runner
Hackney runner
Wednesday January 22nd, 2020 20:52

Thank you for the mention Joel! And as always for the 👌🏽 run report!

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