Ivo, Ivo, it’s off to Catton Grove we go

13 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich
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Norwich

Monday 14th August 2023

Report written by Steven Hitcham

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We were blessed with the presence of GoodGym Founder & CEO, Sir Ivo Gormley (well he's a Sir in my opinion), alongside his partner Jess, who both joined us on this evening's session. They said its the first session they have attended together for about 10 years, so we were very privileged.

The task was to do some cutting back at Catton Grove Community Centre, which is always fun as we have no restrictions and can just chop everything back as much as we like, which had overgrown a lot over these last 2 months. Firstly though, we had to jog 2.75km from The Forum to get there, on a warm and muggy evening.

As you can see from the photos, the pile of cuttings was huge and will be chipped so it can be reused (not eaten - different type of chips!).

It was lovely to see Ivo and Jess. I'm not one for brown-nosing or earning brownie points with the boss as thats not my style, but everyone would agree with me that he is so down to earth, a really approachable person and just wanted to get stuck into the task, one of the reasons he started GoodGym, and that really reflects in the GoodGym ethos that he has created.


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Attendees
Sarah
Rose Copland
Sam
Maddy Nutile
Alina
Woody
Jonathan
Stephen Reed
Elizabeth H
Robert Organ
Steven Hitcham
Penny Coombes
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Ivo (he/him)

Tue 15th Aug 2023 at 3:12pm

🤣 not sure about all that but v nice of you to say Steven! - thanks for having us on the run really enjoyed it - a very satisfying bit of chopping  😁

Bobby B

Sat 19th Aug 2023 at 1:37pm

great work gang !!! x