Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️ and we're happy again ☔

Tonight we were helping Braywood CE First School in Oakley Green, Windsor.

Of course it’s half term so the weather wasn’t being kind ☔️ so no painting outdoors for us so tidying the small area in front of the school gates was our task instead.

Jen made her way on foot from The Greene Oak pub but Sue, Devon and Adam met at the task greeted by task owner, Head Teacher Susan. Mandy joined the task half way through as the rain was causing other issues as well 💧🪣 Huge thank you to Jen for stepping in as task force for the first part 👏🏻♥️

The front of the school had got a bit over grown so we wanted to create an area that maybe could have some planting added at a later date and give a bit more space as access to the parents and children.

Setting to work weeding and pulling up ivy, cutting back over grown hedgerow so the path has more space for when the children return next week.

We chatted about our week and touched briefly on the election but no heated debates were had! Devon took it all very well 😃 and had a break from knocking on doors.

Adam had a great technique playing leaf golf with a stick as part of the clear up at the end. Sue as always brought her mobile tool shed.

Lots of black bags were filled and put aside ready to go in the skip.

After the group photo we said our goodbyes , did the Windsor curtsy and made our way home.

As always thank you all for coming 👑😃👏🏻

Photos by Jen and Mandy

Thursday at 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Tonight we were at Windsor and Eton FC CIC to due to the weather to instead help in the clubhouse removing some paint that had not been applied properly and was easily coming away. Was lovely to see the tables we had sanded at previous sessions all smooth and painted ♥️

Zoe, Devon and Mandy had a social run from The Binoy to the task and Jen, Brenda and Caroline met us there.

It’s was Brenda’s first Thursday session and it was her 10th 👏🏻 Goodgym task so huge well done Brenda!

We were met by task owners and given the indoor task due to the incoming rain. Zoe picked some 80s tunes and we were supplied with scrapers to get all the paint off the wall panels. It was very satisfying watching the paint just peeling off. Then a sand down was required to ensure the surface was ready for painting. It was one of those tasks where it looks like we made it worse 🤣 but it needed to be done. Then we tidied up and gave it a quick vacuum.

We just about scraped through 🤣 one wall so we may have to finish the others another time.

Mandy insisted on a bit of footy action ⚽️ (there was no e-scraping it) with the sponge ball at the end although I don’t thing any of us will be asked to sign up for the team 😬

A quick curtsy and bow 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️and we made our way back.

Thank you as always for attending 👏🏻

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Tonight we were doing a double bill with not one but two acts of kindness 👏🏻 💪🏻

Helen ( who had just run the London Marathon 🏃🏻‍♀️ 👏🏻🎖️), Devon and Mandy met at The Binoy for a social run and Sue, Adam and Margaret (her debut GoodGym session 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻) met us at the task.

Then the show began …. Or was it a circus 🤣

For our first act we met our task owner Anne at Busy Buttons (St Agnes Church) and Anne kindly showed us the church garden. We de-weeded the gravel drains, broke down and moved some old wooden furniture and other rubbish to the front of the church to be collected and swept/made tidy. Devon even did a bit of guttering clearance !

After the interval (as in us hot footing to the pathway near the church with our belongings) we got to work for our second task. We had done some work here in the dark but we had not quite finished it so we did that tonight. Devon and Adam had a great technique and were very neat and precise and polished. Mandy less so 🤣 she kept getting her lines all wrong 🤣 although Helen did keep her in check. Sue and Margaret attached the brambles. We filled three bags which is amazing in the time we had.

Soon it was time for the final curtain and we took a bow, gave ourselves an huge round of applause and made our way home.

Thank you all as always Windsor GGs 👑 ♥️👏🏻

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Tonight we were helping the Achieving for Children - Family Hub Service improve the aesthetics of their entrance way.

This was a community mission so we met at the The Binoy for a social walk with some tools and other items we needed for the task.

We were met by task owner Daniel and a Spanish Storm called Nelson! They both introduced themselves 🤣 Nelson was particularly forceful! 💨💦

We put on the 70s music to drown out the wind and have a sing/dance to as Jen, Didem, Devon, Sue and Mandy set about the weeding, ripping up the old weed-proof lining, removing leaves and litter.

Nearly lost the dust pan a few times in the air and everything was flapping about. But the we kept going in true GG spirit.

Once the main weeding was completed we did our very best to brush away the mud and debris but this was made difficult by the rain so we improvised with a bucket and old kettle to try and swilll some of the mud away. We also gave the inside a hoover at the end to get rid of any mud.

We then took the bags over to the bin area with Daniel.

Sadly it was too wet and windy for Easter games 🐰🐣( maybe next week?) or to paint the bench but we will try and go back for that another time. Sue will also go back and scatter some grass seed 🌱on the cultivated earth in the next few days 👏🏻♥️ when the wind has died down.

Thank you all as always for coming especially given the conditions 👏🏻♥️

Photos by Mandy