Love Dunston

Placing young people at the heart of our community
Love Dunston is dedicated to providing life-changing opportunities to young people and families in Dunston and surrounding areas. The charity manages The Drop In - a youth centre offering services for young people ages 8-25, Dunston Summer Fair, and numerous other community events and volunteering activities in the area.

8 GoodGymers have supported Love Dunston with 4 tasks.


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Newcastle runner
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TaskForce
Aimee
Aimee (she/her)
Anji Andrews
Anji Andrews (she/her)

Upcoming sessions
Deliver leaflets for Dunston Fair

Monday 17th August 2026 6:00pm - 7:45pm


Previous sessions
NewcastleGroup run
Scott McDonald
Aimee

Leaflets, Prayers and Fairs

Monday 10th August

Written by Newcastle runner

GoodGym Newcastle branched out and headed south of the Tyne again to deliver more Dunston Fair leaflets tonight. It was a very pleasant evening for a stroll around the mostly terraced streets we targeted.

In the course of our leafleting we stumbled upon Gateshead Central Baptist Church, which we now know has cycle racks outside it. Then we unexpectedly came across an Eritrean church which we didn't know was there. An interesting route for a walk tonight and many hundreds of leaflets delivered!

We'll be delivering Dunston Fair leaflets for the final Monday next week. Please come and join us, but please read the listing carefully!

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NewcastleCommunity mission
Nour Ali
Aimee
Michael Wisely
Anji Andrews

More leaflets for Dunston - Fair enough!

Wednesday 5th August

Written by Newcastle runner

This was the third of an as yet unknown number of sessions delivering leaflets to support Love Dunston and getting the word out about their summer fair later this month. Five (yes - five - on a Wednesday afternoon!) GoodGymers walked 5.5km and delivered another few hundred leaflets.

We discovered:

  1. Dunston is very hilly in places.
  2. Some houses on hills in Dunston have lots of steep steps up to their letterboxes.
  3. Lots of houses in Dunston have animal themed ornaments in their gardens!

I've included our Strava map for your admiration - it turned out to be quite an efficient coverage of streets quite close to where the fair is going to be held. Plus, as some of you know, I love a leaflet delivery Strava map!

We have at least one more session with these leaflets at our group run on Monday, and possibly more to come. Check out the website!

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NewcastleGroup run
Abbie Tuck

Fair Play in Dunston

Monday 3rd August

Written by Newcastle runner

Three GoodGymers spent Monday evening delivering leaflets for Dunston Fair around the Teams and Dunston area of Gateshead. Abbie, making her GoodGym debut, and Richard ran from Stepney Bank Stables along river, while Louise made her own way to the meeting point.

That area of Gateshead isn't the easiest in which to deliver leaflets, with some interesting street layouts. We've delivered leaflets in the same area numerous times before so are used to it.

Thank you very much to Abbie for coming along from Darlington for the first time and we hope the journey home was smooth!

Please join Louise on Wednesday to deliver some more leaflets!

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NewcastleCommunity mission
Michael Wisely

Drop In Delivery Dropped

Thursday 9th April

Written by Newcastle runner

After a hiatus of a few months I was delighted to be back with GoodGym doing one of my favourite tasks - a leaflet delivery! And also very happy to be accompanied by Newcastle GG AA Richard and long serving Newcastle GoodGymer Michael.

Love Dunston is a new charity for us but task owner Chris was aware of us from his previous post so we were happy to help when he called on us. Chris is well aware of our ability to rapidly deliver leaflets - these ones were to get the word out about a drop in at The Drop In - a centre offering a wide variety of activities for children and young people. I think we surprised even ourselves when we finished the whole box of leaflets that Chris had left for us. The only downside is that Richard will now need to find another task for Monday’s group run!

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