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Thu 28th Mar at 6:45pm
Sun 24th Mar at 8:40am
Ealing Report written by Sevan
Joanna was so excited this morning that she'd woken up as a football! QPR were visiting Acton Junior parkrun, which meant lots of children, as many as would normally take part in the summer months. After Joanna's call for help with the event, lots of GoodGymers came too. 13 of them, plus a group from parkrun Poland!
No one was really sure what to expect and it all looked quite low key until Jude, one of the QPR mascots, appeared before the warm up. Not only did they show up, but they took part along with the other warm up leaders.
All around the course, our GoodGym volunteers were hoping to catch a glimpse of Jude rushing past them, on the way to a 4 leg powered Junior parkrun record (is that allowed?!). Michelle, Chris, Florian, Alan, Pippa, Steph Ducat and Johhny were all keeping an eye our from their marshal posts. It turned out that Jude was too old to run the course as they've been the QPR mascot for over 14 years, so only Chikako as the VI Guide and Harvey as the tail walker were out on the course with the runners. In the funnel area, we had Lucy, Kash, and Sevan, while Joanna led the first timers welcome.
Everything was going to plan as the 61 participants set off around the course. Then, half way around, Harvey seemed to lose his bearings and went off track. A little later, he was back on the tail of the last runner, or so he thought. A couple more minutes passed, then Michelle ran past trying to find Harvey. The boy who'd taken a loo break and was assumed to have dropped out was back in the parkrun. Cue confusion and Harvey returning to the other tail of the field.
After possibly the longest Junior parkrun ever, 31:51 with a pit stop, QPR had arranged for some fun at the finish. Jude was high fiving runners into the funnel, managing to confuse a few of them who stopped before the finish line. Then, there were some games to play and merch to be given out too.
After parkrun, some GoodGymers were seen wearing their new blue and white scarves as everyone went for coffee to congratulate Sevan on reaching 600 good deeds and to eat Michelle's fabulous lemon drizzle cake.
Sat 23rd Mar at 10:30am
Hammersmith and Fulham Report written by Jonathan (he/him)
Despite the beautiful sun and sky it was a bitter day on Saturday, with an icy wind not stopping us from enjoying the beautiful buds of spring.
However this same budding means that Goodgym's old enemy thistles have begun to poke their head from above ground.
This is what we found ourselves tackling on Saturday, breaking the ground and pulling out the little rapscallions so that the crocuses and daffodils could continue to flourish!
Lovely to see Dipeeka, Rohan and Holly at the session, thank you so much for coming!
Tue 19th Mar at 6:30pm
Hammersmith and Fulham Report written by Jonathan (he/him)
A solo mission, I had a nice walk around the borough moving bits of rubbish off the ground and into the bin where they belong.
Tue 19th Mar at 6:30pm
Tue 12th Mar at 6:30pm
Hammersmith and Fulham Report written by Jonathan (he/him)
Was a lovely time on Tuesday welcoming back Sarah and Bethan to the Hammersmith fold, glad to see you both again!
As always we had a lovely time at Flora Gardens, this time helping to clear out the plants near the play area so no kiddy gets their eye potentially poked out by a stray branch on the every-growing plants.
Unfortunately it was our last task their with our Jeanette! Jeanette has been calling on our services since 2018 and flora gardens was the first site of the report writers (Jonathan's) first even Goodgym mission!
Thank you so much for having us over the years Jeanette, we're going to miss you!
Tue 12th Mar at 7:00pm
Packing up the stock for the new charitable donations
Read moreThu 7th Mar at 6:30pm
Hammersmith and Fulham Report written by Jonathan (he/him)
We headed up to the Kathy Dolan Centre to help tidy up the cupboards of their kitchen.
We found a number of wonders, including a number of CDs and Western tapes.
Thanks so much for coming!
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