Become A Force For Change
Build community and wellbeing in your area by becoming GoodGym Taskforce
Friday 21st June 2024
Story written by Jacob Harriss (He/Him)
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GoodGym is a community of people who get fit by doing good.
Join GoodGym's Taskforce to grow a community providing practical help to important projects in your area.
Get help for the projects you care about
Enable hundreds of people to volunteer on issues you care about, be that food poverty, the environment, or community projects.
Learn new skills
Learn important transferable skills including community building, tech, and volunteer management. Build your CV and connect with many projects and organisations.
Build your community
Be part of a group of positive people who build community and get things done.Being TaskForce means taking the initiative to bring people together, get volunteers to where they are needed and to celebrate success.
What is TaskForce?
TaskForce are volunteer community leaders who setup and support practical tasks and who build community.
As a TaskForce member you will:
- Organise and support sessions helping community projects.
- Welcome and invite new people into GoodGym
- Create reports for the website, social media and press.
- Build relationships with projects and community groups.
- Arrange social events and collaborations
What’s the commitment?
Once you’re trained, we ask that TaskForce contribute to their area once every two months, either by organising a session or by doing one of the other things listed above. GoodGym can fit around your schedule. Most sessions happen outside working hours.
What you'll make happen
You’ll enable hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of support for projects you care about, this might be
- Shovelling compost in a school allotment to enable children to grow food
- Sorting donations at a food bank to make sure food can be distributed to those who need it
- Planting trees in a park to increase green space and biodiversity
How you'll change the world
- You will reduce mental distress and increase well-being of people in your area.
- You will enable hundreds of hours of voluntary support to your chosen community projects.
- You will improve the environment and biodiversity by helping green spaces.
Get started now
Complete a short online learning and attend a group video call to become GoodGym TaskForce. It takes less than 3 hours in total.
Have more than 10 good deeds? Join TaskForce in less than 60 mins
You can join TaskForce in less than 60 minutes by simply completing the self-guided modules here.
