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64 Month Streak
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📍Post Office/Londis NE12 8HJ
Spread the word about fabulous four legged friends
Mon 8th Apr at 6:15pm
Come for a social walk with us and donate to a local foodbank
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Mon 25th Mar at 6:15pm
Newcastle Report written by Anji Andrews (she/her)
It was our last “normal” Monday session for a couple of weeks due to the Easter holidays bringing a bit of disruption and yet this wasn’t exactly a normal one in the truest sense. First of all it was a short one- partly due to only having 50 leaflets left to deliver and partly due to utterly awful weather conditions. (Come on, Spring, hurry along now, there’s a good season!). It rained relentlessly and was freezing tonight leading to my Heaton/temperature related pun.
In the absence of a run leader we gathered for a walking session tonight and caught up on the weekend’s community missions. I was dying to know whether Lucy’s Mum was available to commission birthday cakes for the upcoming GG Newcastle sixth birthday next month as her cake creations at yesterday’s big Urban Green Century celebration looked divine! The answer was, thankfully, yes. Woop.
Thankfully the first part of this route is all up hill which helped to get the blood pumping and keep us warm as we headed into Heaton for the final part of the leaflet drive we’ve done for our friends at East End Women.
I’m not joking when I say this was one of the quickest tasks ever with leaflets completed in about 4 minutes, leaving us plenty of time to have a proper life catch up and forget about the rain, a great start to the week.
If leaflets are your thing, or if dogs are your thing, or if combining both is your thing, then get involved with another flyer session this Thursday where so far only Louise is spreading the word for Guide Dogs in Benton. Please help if you can!
Keep an eye on session listings over the next few weeks and read them carefully, there’s lots going on but sometimes with unusual days and meeting points! Hope to see you soon.
Sun 24th Mar at 10:00am
Newcastle Report written by Krishti
It was urbangreen's 100th task and we all showed up to Hodgkin park pretty excited and prepared with some surprises. Mike was there on a purely volunteer role but he shared lovely stories about the park as usual. Today's job was to take down the Ivy that had covered a massive section of the wall. It looked pretty satisfying at first. Taking down entire sections of Ivy. But we had to drag it uphill, so it was out of the way and we were all sweaty and out of breath in no time! Our tea/coffee break was extra special as Mike had brought in a chocolate cake and Lucy's mum baked us some lovely cupcakes to celebrate the occasion. We managed to clear off quite a lot of Ivy. All in all a very exciting task and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Mon 25th Mar at 6:15pm
NB: WALKING SESSION ONLY!
Read moreSun 24th Mar at 10:00am
Mon 18th Mar at 6:15pm
Newcastle Report written by Anji Andrews (she/her)
It’s been a glorious day in Newcastle today with the feeling that spring has finally sprung, and with a sprung spring in our steps, four of us headed out this evening on a group session to support our friends at East End Women. While most of the work we’ve done with this amazing charity is to support their foodbank, they also host a variety of brilliant classes and sessions at their Walker base, and tonight we were flyering to let Heaton residents know about what’s on offer. It was also FINALLY a chance to see Lucy sporting the golden wings after hitting her 100th good deed a few sessions back- and my subsequent regular forgetting to bring the wings along. We salute you (again) on your 100th time of being awesome.
While I’m suffering with an ongoing dodgy ankle, Louise and Aimee ran up the hill to Heaton and Lucy and I met at our frequent meeting point Heaton Perk. Side note: I’d love to actually go there when it’s open! We’d made light work of this task a few months back so I also brought along some litter pickers so we could get tidying at the same time. We caught up on life lately (and the new Pepsi logo) and I thought about how good leafleting sessions are for not only step counts but also the opportunity to keep in touch with each other in this way. Before long we’d posted all 100 leaflets and got cracking with the litter picking.
As it was a small group tonight there was no opportunity for a huge game so we did a quick round of Copy Cats and practised some fancy (and not so fancy) footwork in a short drills and strides fitness session.
Big thanks again to Louise for stepping in to run lead this evening.
There’s a daytime session on Thursday this week as we help to launch the Tiny Forest in Bensham if you’re around to help it looks like a lovely session! If not, there are loads of other opportunities to do good stuff coming. Hope to see you soon.
Sun 17th Mar at 10:00am
Newcastle Report written by Aimee (she/her)
Two GoodGymers helped Urban Green in Exhibition Park on a spring Sunday morning. I had volenteered at Mowbray junior parkrun before hand and Lucy had also volunteered at Town Moor junior parkrun.
Along with rangers Mike and Rhian we were weeding, turning over and mulching a flower bed full of ornamental grasses outside Wylam Brewery. This was important to get rid of the weeds, try to suppress the weeds growing back to give the grasses more of a chance to thrive and make the flower bed look tidy and more appealing.
We had a tea break half way though and discussed the romantic life of the local swans and even saw some mating behavior so look out for cygnets in the future. A St Patrick's Day run ran past us and Mike tried to collar the organisers for charging people to use the park setting off glitter canons without permission. The organiser was uncontactable so it will need to be chased up later, but it was some sight to have all these runners running around the lake towards us to with music, green smoke and green glitter bombs.
After the break we continued on with the flower bed. It was large so we only got the first third done, but we made a big difference - cheak out the before and after pictures!
If you want to help out with Urban Green Newcastle we are back next week with Kenton Park on Saturday and Hodgkin Park on Sunday which is our 100th session with Urban Green!
Sun 17th Mar at 8:45am
Newcastle Report written by Richard Borrowdale
Four GoodGymers volunteered at Mowbray Park junior parkrun on a surprisingly mild Sunday morning in Sunderland. They really made a difference today in the absence of several of the event's regular volunteers.
Aimee successfully navigated timekeeping, while Debbie and Tanya masterfully deployed their 'caution runners' signs near their marshal points. Richard just about managed to run direct without anything going horribly wrong!
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