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This morning Wayne & Priya met Richard at Brookwood Memorial Halls to assist the All Aboard Club with building the big train track for the SEN kids to enjoy 😀

Along with Goodgym volunteers we were joined by young DofE volunteers were volunteering for their awards.

It was great seeing Priya again at a task and was great to catch up. First thing we had to do was place about 20 chairs around the hall for the parents to sit and chat while the kids played.

With so many helpers in no time the train track was taking shape & was looking great, lots of twists and turns, every time we build the track it looks different 😲

Just as the last track was placed in position the kids were coming in to have a fun playful morning 🚂💨

The aim of every All Aboard Club task is to create something complicated by beginning with lots of simple pieces. It's always interesting to see the end result from the creativity of all of the volunteers and today was no different.

There was a big group today to complete the build and they included Siobhan who was at an All Aboard Club task for the first time and her son, Laurence, who Siobhan had recruited for his first GoodGym task. They'd both been on London Transport Museum Depot tours in the past and were excited to get involved with the task. Welcome Laurence! 👏🎉

Through the session, the track flowed outwards to fill the whole of the mezzanine. Challenging junctions were put in to cause the attendees to interact and loose ends were tied up. Most loose ends, anyway. Ten minutes before the children were due to arrive, there were 7 parallel tracks that didn't connect to anything. Sevan foresaw a Junction of Doom ™️.

"We've run out of track" - All Aboard Club volunteer
"There's plenty of track, it's how you use it" - Sevan
"You must be a management consultant" - Richard, task owner

Sevan went to scavenge some useful track pieces from around the floor, then helped the AAC volunteer come up with a plan. The volunteer managed to complete the track before any children showed up. Phew!

Siobhan, Laurence and Sevan set some trains zooming around the track as the first children arrived and watched how the attendees interacted with the track that the volunteers had created. There was even enough time at the end for Siobhan and Richard to chat about groups that All Aboard Club could reach out to, based on Siobhan's local knowledge.

Finishing early? That's unheard of!

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This mornings task at the All Aboard Club there was a major milestone. It was Nadia 50th good deed 🎉. Nadia joined Woking GG In April 2024 & over the last 10 months has got to her 50th total in double quick time. During this time Nadia has sometimes done 3 good deeds in a day, 😲 Amazing stuff and also in that period Nadia running has improved so much and long may it continue 🏃🏼‍♀️. Hopefully on the next task Nadia will be showing off her new black GG shirt 😀. We will also try to arrange a social get together to celebrate.

Wayne & Nadia came straight from volunteering at junior park run and were met by Lauren. There were also a few new faces from another charity to help us build the giant train track for the kids to enjoy 😀.

Once again we were welcomed by Richard our expert train track builder 🚂💨.

First task was to get 30 chairs and place them around the hall for the parents to sit on, once this was done we all picked a corner and started to build. It was great catching up with Lauren who has recently got into hiking and was telling us about her latest walk in the mountains in South Wales 🗻 and her up coming expeditions in the lake district, hopefully eventually doing all of UK's highest peaks 🥾

This mornings train track when completed looked amazing full of twists and turns and plenty of ups and downs the kids were really going to enjoy it. 😀

A great morning of volunteering, hope you all have a great rest of the weekend and see you all soon. 💫

Wayne, Charlotte and Nadia were this month’s volunteers for the set up of the All Aboard Club’s train set for children’s playtime. The organisation supports children with ADHD and SEN.

Wayne and Nadia had been to Junior Parkrun beforehand so today was a double day for them. They arrived early and had a good chance to catch up. 💬

Soon after all the other volunteers arrived and we were joined by Charlotte who was telling us of her busy morning managing her household! It was great to see Charlotte again. 👋🏼

We have a few seasoned train track builders now so the team have more intuition on how to choo choo choose and place the tracks. It was an interesting configuration again and as always we were excited to do the final step of placing the choo choo trains on the tracks. 🚂

Some early arrivals jumped straight in which was a delight to see.

Great job everyone on a happy Sunday!

All Aboard Club

This morning we were back in Brookwood at the All Aboard Club helping set up a big train track for kids to enjoy. 😀

We welcomed Charlotte who is a Member of Goodgym Richmond. Charlotte has met some of our Woking GG members at the Martian Race a few years ago. Charlotte has recently moved to the area so hopefully we will be seeing more of her 😀 It was also great to see Claire back and what a great task to come back to. Wayne was pretty tired after completing a 10k run this morning but along with Richard (Mr All Aboard) and the group got stuck in. We all took up positions in different areas of the hall and started to lay the tracks. We were also joined by other volunteers doing their DofE which was fantastic.

In no time we had between us all made a very complex looking track with many twists and turns 🚂 which i am sure the kids will love.

Another great morning. Hope to see you all on Wednesday when we will be doing a leaflet drop for Sam Beare Hospice...😀

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NEWS

A massive shout out & good luck to Maya who is in Chicago to do the Marathon at some point today, will be keeping an 👀 on Strava.

A big welcome to Agathe who joined us today for her first task. Agathe heard about Goodgym while she was in London and is looking forward to join the Woking team 😀

Anne ran to the task this morning and in total did a distance of 15k this morning (She is a Machine 😀)

Wayne & Lauren came straight from this mornings junior park run. Once at the venue we met up with Richard and a few other volunteers to build the train track. First thing we had to do was take out 16 chairs and place them around the hall for the parents to sit. Then the fun stuff began.

We are started at different areas in the hall and started to build the tracks towards each other hoping that they would all connect.

Lauren & Agathe were very creative giving the train track an extra dimension 🤣

Anne was letting Agathe know what Woking GG were all about and that we were having our 7th birthday celebrations next week hopefully Agathe will come along and meet the rest of the crew.

In no time we had finished just in time as the kids were arriving to enjoy the train track 🚂

Well done everyone great job this morning see you all next week. 😀