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Mon 22nd Apr at 7:00pm
Bromley Report written by Bromley runner
It was lovely to see so many GoodGymers join us for another trip to the Crystal Palace Water Tower 🗼 this week 😁
At the Bridge House we introduced ourselves and answered this week's question - "Where would you like to run a marathon?". A wonderfully diverse range of suggestions came up, from the self-indulgent ("Edinburgh, because it's a flat course and I'm lazy" - your report author) to the far away (Tokyo), the safe bets (London and Boston) to the classical (Vienna and Athens).
We then headed out to Crystal Palace Park for some warming up, before splitting off into long distance and shorter distance run groups 🏃. Cat, Clare and James headed round the perimeter of the park with their group, while Hannah and I took advantage of the light to cut through the middle with all its steepness leading our group to get to the Water Tower.
There we met John, impressed with our number, and got to work inside. Having removed much soil and foliage over the last couple of years, we're now into the detailed work of removing stones and small rocks 🪨, as well as carefully uncovering the remaining pipework that sits around the edge of the tower, alongside the last bit of soil removal.
Hannah found the old furnace 🔥 and confirmed she'd fit inside (thankfully it's been turned off for a very long time), while James did a sterling job of cutting out the shifting of soil into our makeshift soil sorter (a supermarket trolley) using a shovel by simply lifting the wheelbarrow the soil was in over the trolley. Fast work, if not light!
At 8pm we still had good light, but it was time to say goodbye to John and head back down the west side of the park and back to Bridge House for our cool down stretches.
Great contributions from all - see you next time! 👋
Mon 22nd Apr at 7:00pm
Mon 15th Apr at 7:00pm
Bromley Report written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)
For this week's issue of GoodGym... Brambles.
We assembled at the Bridge House, welcomed Henrietta to the crew and named ourselves and our favourite tube or train lines.
Then we set off to Albion Millenium Green, where we met Jorella from the friends group who had a prickly task for us.
Ramble in the bramble.
Lots of the lovely bluebells were getting shrouded by overgrown bramble bushes, so our job was to cut them back in a few different areas. Armed with secateurs, shears, saws and even a scythe(!) we got to work trimming and swiping until the areas looked much tidier.
Nice job & jog everyone 👌
Tue 16th Apr at 9:02am
Nice work, everyone!
Tue 16th Apr at 11:38am
Lovely to meet everyone!
Mon 15th Apr at 7:00pm
Allowing the plants that are meant to be there to grow strong 💪
Read moreMon 11th Mar at 7:00pm
Bromley Report written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)
It was International Women's Day on Friday, so we kicked off by highlighting our favourite females. From Rosa Parks to queen Jacinda to amazing family members, we demonstrated that the best, most caring, and morally correct people are always women.
Next we ran up the hill to CP Triangle and our regular task at the St Christopher's Hospice charity shop. Teresa is always super grateful for our help and ability to give the place a quick spritz and blitz.
Adam was sorting odd shoes and found some serious labels with a price to match.
Cat was steaming through a rack of creased clothes.
Louise, Molly and Stephen and Kelly were making sure all the garments were ordered nicely and facing the right way.
James was hoovering the whole shop and Kelsey was dusting the shoe racks.
Hannah was on pricing duty, Clare was cleaning the counter and I was mostly trying to figure out the name of the teapot from Beauty and the Beast (see pic). Spoiler: it's Mrs Potts 🙄
After a solid half hour we bid our farewells and made our way back to base with an obligatory wallsit en route.
Nice one team 🏃💥
Mon 11th Mar at 7:00pm
Helping the hospice shop stay neat and tidy
Read moreTue 5th Mar at 6:30pm
Bromley Report written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)
St Christopher's Hospice provide amazing end of life care to people across South East London and tonight's task was all about helping them to raise money for their FUN WALK fundraiser.
We jogged around a bunch of local shops, pubs and even a cinema, looking for windows and noticeboards to put posters up to advertise the event.
A few kms in the bag and hopefully some awareness raised! Nice job gang ✌️
Tue 5th Mar at 6:30pm
Help the hospice to fundraise for their amazing work!
Read moreSun 3rd Mar at 9:30am
Bromley Report written by Hannah
Double gloves were the way to go for our task with the welcoming Friends of Kelsey Park this morning! We got straight to work in snazzy orange vests yanking up lots of stinging nettles, making sure to remove their sometimes very stubborn roots and also avoiding the bulbs and flowers in the area. The hori-hori knives proved useful again, and we discussed some possible culinary uses for nettles (tea / soup?) before instead opting to leave them in a pile to be collected after all. Oh, and Dani made easy work of dismantling a wooden fence in one go. Thanks everyone!
Sat 24th Feb at 11:00am
Bromley Report written by Mark Gilyead (he/him)
What are you going to do with your bonus Leap Year day?! was the question posed at the 'Leap into Volunteering' fair in Bromley.
Luckily lots of people wandered through the door intrigued as to how they could use their time to benefit their local community.
Hannah, Laura, Rebecca and I got pretty adept at explaining GoodGym to new people by the end of the event and fingers crossed a few turn up to some GoodGym sessions 🤞😬
We also made some great connections with loads of local organisations that may want a hand from our crew. Laura was even surprised to see her uncle there who is a local scout leader!!!
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