"Vision is more important than sight"

On Saturday of Storm Dennis, 3 GoodGym runners went to Christopher Grange Sight Loss Learning Hub in Knotty Ash to help out at their health and wellbeing event.

The event was run by Vispa which is a group of local organisations working to provide physical and wellbeing activities for visually impaired people in Merseyside.

Through filling in the registration forms, we got to know some of the attendees, how much exercise they currently do and would like to do. Despite some substantial barriers (like needing a guide and transport), we found out many did more exercise than us three GoodGymers did!

It was heartening and inspiring to chat to so many people and hear their stories. This included the lunch time blind speaker who had ran ultramarathons across deserts and flown from UK to Australia in a microlight glider.

Throughout the day we help guide the attendees to sessions on Mindfulness, Laughter Yoga (which sounded like a riot!) and something called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique aka Tapping).

We also got to meet other contacts at Bradbury Fields and they've got lots of activities coming up which GoodGym can definitely help with in the future. Watch this space!

Special big thank you to Mat for coming way before his shift to help out