PARCS - Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service

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Judy KnappTracey DeanFinnualaVal CameronMaura ColeKatie London

50 Good Weeds!!

Wednesday 30th August 2023

Written by Jen Stoneham

Congratulations to Jane for hitting 50 Good Deeds this evening! Welcome to the realms of GoodGym Royalty.

We had walkers, runners and cyclists this evening heading back to Diana House for some weeding action. Check out Katie's Before and After shots, you can really see the difference.

Judy's passion for mindless finicky weeding really came through tonight so even the tiniest little weeds couldn't escape.

A nest of spiders was also unearthed during our task, it was like a scene from a teeny tiny horror movie. Hopefully nobody took any waifs and strays home with them...

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Harry HenderTony HewettJaneKatie LondonJo KitchingAngela Chick

PARC your garden problems with us

Wednesday 17th May 2023

Written by Katie Carew-Robinson (she/her)

We made it in time (!) and got through to the back garden where we were faced with lots of huge dandelions, weeds covering the path and a willow that had gone beyond weeping and was starting to veer into triffid territory!

We were very pleased to see that Jen's work on the buddleia a few years ago was work done well and there were no signs of it returning!

Katie London did some excellent (and maybe health & safety breaking) compacting of the branches in the brown bin.

Angela made good use of Jo's folding branch saw and took down lots of the willow branches.

Rosie identified the plants vs weeds and Wilson worked so hard that she wore a hole in her glove.

An hour's work and we'd made a huge difference to the garden, it looks much more inviting and hopefully it'll be well used by the clients of PARCS.

Milestones: Tonight was Tony's 200th good deed and we also got to see Dave's new black t-shirt celebrating his 50th good deed last week. Tony's 200th t-shirt will be on display soon...

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Julie BlakeMaura ColeMick HobdayTony HewettLucy BoothToni

Raleigh the troops

Wednesday 19th April 2023

Written by Katie Carew-Robinson (she/her)

We started the evening with some treats from Raleigh to celebrate the new partnership between them and GoodGym and we finished the evening by announcing that Harry has been chosen to be one of the GG / Raleigh ambassadors. Great for them and for us!

We had 3 groups heading to PARCS tonight... "meet you there", "chat pace" and "mid pace".

Unfortunately no-one was there to greet us and let us through to the back garden 😕 but fortunately there was a fair bit of weeding and rubbish clearance to do in the front driveway so we were still able to do them a bit of a favour and also had plenty of opportunity to catch up with each other. Great to see so many faces and also to have some sunshine!

Wilson showed excellent determination in litter retrieval from under the hedges and Mick tried to make his good deeds count as much as his t-shirt suggested by attacking the weeds with vigour! Secateurs were repurposed for digging out weeds and rubbish & the brown bin was pretty full by the time we finished.

I've emailed the person who we arranged this with so so hopefully we will manage to get another date in to get grips with the garden!

Don't forget that it's the London Marathon on Sunday so send all your best running positive thinking to Dave who will be covering the 26.2 miles.

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Katie Carew-RobinsonRachel CutlerJo KitchingRosie SayersJen StonehamTracey Dean

Snailvainian Families 🐌

Wednesday 16th June 2021

Written by Katie Carew-Robinson (she/her)

Lockdowns and warm/wet weather meant that the PARCS garden was in need of a bit of attention.

Who you gonna call? GoodGym Weedbusters!

We quickly filled the brown bin with various greenery, luckily we had Rosie (GG Portsmouth's answer to Monty Don) on hand to help us identify the weeds rather than the plants.

Jo had brought her own secateurs so made short work of the brambles for us.

Rachel braved the compost bin and wrestled off the lid (not too many creepy crawlies) so we had another bin to fill.

Jen made friends with the resident snails and gave us a commentary on what they were up to, including a possible house move (shell swap?) and some 18 rated activities not suitable for the run report!

Tracey unintentionally customised her black GG tshirt with a load of sticky green seeds, once we'd looked we noticed that most of us had also been caught by them.

2 bins and about 6 sacks filled and it was time to head home (via Tesco for 3 of us!), just as the rain started to fall, I'm sure the snails will be pleased!

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Tracey DeanToniMaura ColeTony HewettVal CameronJudy KnappMaxine VSG

Rollering In It!

Tuesday 12th November 2019

Written by Maxine VSG

We've come back to PARCS Diana House for a second coat of paint - read about first round here!

After much struggle last week with too little paint, only one roller and a make shift celebrations box for a paint tray, we were much more prepared this time! The lady from PARCS got us more paint before we could run out and Maura, Val & Judy came prepared with their own trays & rollers!

Paint It White with The Rollering Stones

With so many rollers, we flew through the process this time, covering all areas between Tony & Toni's carefully cut in edges, finishing with plenty of time to clean up and tidy!

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Tony HewettVal CameronMaura Cole
Tracey DeanMaxine VSG

Roller On By

Tuesday 5th November 2019

Written by Maxine VSG

8 Runners made their way through the war zone of Portsmouth's Guy Fawkes fireworks to lend a hand at PARCS Diana House. Originally we came to help give their bathroom a lick of fresh paint, however upon arrival we realised we had a bit more cut out for us!

Maura proved us wrong that it's not always whoever lives the closest that is late, and as payback to our doubts in her, she offered our services to paint the waiting room as well! Which turned out to be a good idea considering 8 people would have had a hard time squishing into the one bathroom - that's the problem when too many people want to do good!

We split up into two groups; Tracey & Maxine in the bathroom while Tony, Toni, Aimee, India, Val and Maura tackled the larger waiting room! Interchanging as we went along and helped each other out :)

Remember Remember To Have Enough Paint

Unfortunately due to our over keenness we quickly ran out of paint! The kind ladies at Diana House had to nip to B & Q for some more so we could wrap up the job. Surprisingly we managed in due time, but will hopefully be going back next week for a second coat! Keep your eyes pealed on the Community Missions list if you'd like to come help on round two!

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