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Claire Potter signed up to a community mission.
Sun 26th Mar at 10:00am
An invitation to help this lovely community garden space prepare for the winter months
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Claire Potter went on a group run
Mon 20th Mar at 6:45pm
Islington Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice
Our Goodgym running crew avoided a continuation of the weekend's rain and mud (especially for those running parkrun or travelling to Wales for trail races!), and arrived the The Arsenal Community Hub on a mild spring time evening! Last one before the clocks go forward next weekend. Happy Birthday to Alex on Sunday, welcome back to Claire after her awesome trip to Hawaii, and Monday greetings to Louise after a weekend of completing Goodgym tasks across most of London! One of these being Area Activator Simon's official 500th Good Deed over at Caledonian Park junior parkrun on Sunday morning.
After a short warm-up along the slopes of the Emirates Stadium, we ran the 1.6 mile route along Upper Street in Angel (nice and quiet after a bit of rain) past Compton Square Gardens and down to the lovely ARC Centre on the Packington Estate. Kelly, the local resident and volunteer gardening expert took us over to the newly remodeled Riverside Gardens space, literally next door to Regent's Canal. This was actually part of our Slow Ways running task a few weeks back, so it was wonderful to see the spot being utilised for a new community project!
Between us, we set about digging up two large plots of soil and mulch, clearing the beds of roots, plants, older seeds and bulbs. We successfully pulled up some really quite huge plants, while avoiding our worm, snail and beetle friends, of course! The plan for the space involves re-designing the beds themselves (a carpenter will create some new dovetail joins for the containers on Tuesday), ready to be filled with nutritious plants and green shoots for the local residents (human or otherwise!).
We returned our shovels back to The ARC Centre after about 40 minutes of graft, and ran approximately 2 miles back to The Emirates Stadium, following our lovely Highbury Fields extension by Drayton Park.
Great job everyone! We will be back again next week, same time, same place!
NEWS
Achilles International group run- Now at The Emirates Stadium
Thursday 23rd March, 6pm, Arsenal Tube Station
We will be collaborating with Achilles International for our weekly VI guide running group session at The Emirates Stadium. New and experienced guides encouraged and supported!
Come and join us here:
Camino Ultra London- Lea Valley 50km Goodgym Official Aid Station
Saturday 25th March, Ponder's End Lock, from 10am until approximately 3pm
Area Activator Simon and the team from Camino Ultra will be hosting a special Goodgym aid station (for water, nutrition and support) as part of this classic London ultra running challenge. Your cheers and well wishes could make someone's race!
Sign up here for more information:
https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/camino-ultra-lea-valley-50km-goodgym-aid-station
Penn Road Gardens Open Volunteer Morning
Sunday 26th March, 10am, Penn Road Gardens
The local resident gardeners of Penn Road Gardens have invited fellow green fingered folk to assist with their monthly projects. A perfect post junior parkrun volunteering community mission!
Sign up here:
Claire Potter went on a mission
Sun 19th Mar at 4:00pm
Islington Report written by Claire Potter
After running part of the way and taking public transport part of the way I arrived at the task where I met Kenny, who had cycled there. Mr and Mrs M needed help with their garden, which had become inaccessible due to some vigorous growth of brambles and shrubs. Kenny got to work on the biggest branches with some shears, while I took on the lower brambles with secateurs. With only a few scratches and without trampling too many snails, we were able to clear the space of general rubbish and overgrowth and filled several garden waste bags for collection. Mrs M was very happy with the job we did, though, unfortunately, there were not enough bags to dispose of all of the branches cleared. We sorted the remaining garden waste into a pile and Mrs M hopes to get some more bags to finish this up.
Claire Potter went on a community mission
Sun 19th Mar at 1:00pm
Lambeth Report written by Sam Lefevre (he/him)
Firstly, a very warm welcome to Julia and Ruth who came for their first ever GoodGym session! They both came early as the GROAD volunteers were setting up the main room with tables and clothes rails.
Closer to the start time of 13:00, Claire and Ivar arrived too and helped the team empty Shed 2 and the porch area of all the donations that came last weekend and throughout the week.
Once all the items were in the main room, we started sorting them out into categories. Ruth took on the children's toys, Claire and Ivar hung up men's and women's clothes whilst Julia helped with putting out children's clothes and other assortments. Sam kept the place tidy and took in the new donations that were generously donated by the public. These items were stored away in Shed 2 for next week.
By the hour, we still had a few more boxes and bags to open, so Sam asked kindly to get anyone who could stay to stay an extra half hour to finish off the task.
Kudos to all for coming and volunteering on a Sunday afternoon. Appreciate your time 😊
Claire Potter signed up to a mission.
Sun 19th Mar at 4:00pm
Would make a big difference to Mr M and his wife's health and wellbeing to be able to spend times outdoors. Mr M struggles to leave the house due to his impaired vison.
Read moreClaire Potter signed up to a group run.
Mon 20th Mar at 6:45pm
Preparation for Spring in Union Square, Packington Gardens and Riverside Gardens
Read moreClaire Potter signed up to a community mission.
Sun 19th Mar at 1:00pm
Clothes will go to refugees, rough sleepers and vulnerable families
Read moreClaire Potter completed 25 good deeds with GoodGym. 🥳
Monday 20th February
On a roll
Claire Potter completed 25 good deeds with GoodGym.
Claire has already done 25 good deeds with GoodGym. Instead of doing anything else, they've used their run to go and help people that need their help; digging, lifting, scraping, clearing, planting and weeding. Stuff that makes this a better place to be.
Claire Potter went on a group run
Mon 20th Feb at 6:45pm
Islington Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice
On Monday evening, Area Activator Simon was joined by a top crew of Goodgym runners from all across the London boroughs (including Matthew who had just run all the way from Wandsworth as part of his half marathon training- great job!) for our slightly quirky group run with Slow Ways.
The Slow Ways virtual mapping database is an interactive guide for safe pedestrianised walking across the entirety of the UK (started during the 2020 pandemic). Other mapping programs prioritise quick point-to-point journeys, avoiding note-worthy routes within your local community. Anyone can suggest a walking route or verify a course for others, and the whole project only works with the help of fellow walkers, runners and cyclists.
After dropping off our bags at The Arsenal Community hub on Benwell Road, we ran together towards Angel Station to start our Slow Ways survey as a group. Our plan is to run the "Angel to Dalston" route together during the hours of darkness (approx 2 miles in total), and to check on any important information that we can feed back to the website. As we began our run, we jogged together down to Colebrooke Gardens (just near the entrance to the east side of Regent's Canal), while following a GPX file on OS Maps.
Next stop was to wiggle down some lovely quiet residential streets down towards the Packington Estate (and past one of our favourite task locations- The ARC Centre, still serving coffee at 7.30pm!). This was about half way through our journey, and all is going well (Toffee the dog was still trotting along with no sign of stopping!). Our next diversion lead us to The Regent's Canal tow path, over to De Beauvoir - a section that lacked wheelchair access and proved to be quite dark at this time in the evening- important things to note for our route verification exercise!
We ran parallel to a busy Kingsland Road, following the quieter residential streets instead (and passing a very tame fox, who was not bothered by our presence in the slightest) up to our final location- the intersection between Dalston Junction and Dalston Kingsland stations. Slow Ways completed!
Emily and Louise took the opportunity to hop on a tube back home at this point, while the rest of our crew continued our run back the Emirates Stadium via Mildmay Grove, Canonbury, Highbury Fields and down Whistler Street and Drayton Park. After a solid 10km of total running, we celebrated with a chat and a few refreshments at The Highbury Library. Wonderful running everyone!
View our Slow Ways Review for Angel - Dalston Route 2 (AngDal2) here:
https://beta.slowways.org/Route/Angdal/9131
NEWS
Penn Road Gardens volunteer open morning
Sunday 26th February - 10am
Our friends at Penn Road Gardens will be hosting their monthly open gardening session on Sunday morning. Plenty of composting, mulch making and bulb planting planned. A great way to spent a Sunday morning, along with coffee provided by the neighbours!
Sign up here:
Track Attack Time Trial- Victoria Park
Sunday 26th February- 11am
Our monthly social time trial event returns for our February edition- back to Victoria Park Track.
Area Activator Simon will be hosting a friendly and non-competitive 1 mile and 5km time trial on the former Victoria Park Harriers cinder track, accessible for all park users. Great fun!
Always followed by coffee and light breakfast over at The Hub Café.
Sign up here: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/track-attack-february-2023-victoria-park
Goodgym Islington Group Run and Social!
Monday 27th February - 6.45pm
Next Monday evening, we will be running over to Thornhill Square Gardens to help the lovely resident gardeners which preparing one of the largest community green spaces in Islington for spring planting.
Sign up here: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/group-run-thornhill-square-garden-food-for-flowers
And afterwards, we will jog together to the lovely Tofu Vegan on Upper Street for some delicious Chinese cuisine and refreshments!
Sign up here:
https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/february-social-tofu-vegan-upper-street
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Tue 21st Feb at 10:32am
You did Louise a disservice, she ran all the way home to Newham! I'm the only one who resorted the public transport 😃
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