Many Hands Make Lights Work - That Takes the Biscuit!

13 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ipswich
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Ipswich

Monday 5th August 2019

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After a few weeks celebrating a run of 50 good deed milestones, we had a quieter night welcoming THREE people making their Goodgym debut and there were biscuits to celebrate my 100th Goodgym deed!

WelcomeRebecca, Miranda and Ayse

Tonight's task was just a short run to Brickmakers Wood where Rob met us and was eager to get going on a fairly significant task.

Brickmakers Wood has a gigantic indoor warehouse area and the electrics had malfunctioned leaving virtually no lighting. An electrician would repair the lights but needed a scaffold tower to reach each of the lightin units. However all along the path the scaffold tower needed were huge amounts of wood scrap metal and various other treasures being stored.

Rob needed a clear runway created so the electrician could move from unit to unit, This did look like a big job..... but in Goodgym style the team got stuck in moving everything from furniture to iron fencing and celotex boards to logs and pallets.

The runway was created in super quick time with Rob phoning the electrician while we were finishing off to tell him to come tomorrow! Rob estimated it would have take more than a day to complete and Goodgym sorted it in less than 30 minutes including time to eat the celebration biscuits!

With the job complete we had a quick tour to revisit areas we had worked on previously inculding the pond and ampitheatre area - really beautiful on a lovely sunny evening.

We then headed into Alexandra Park for some relay intervals on the flat and with a a few hill efforts too - oh how we all laughed!!

Then a short run back to base for a quick stretch - another top night with GG Ipswich.

Next week we are helping Ipswich Soup Kitchen - find out more and sign up HERE


This task supported
Eden Rose Coppice Trust
The Woodland Retreat

Eden-Rose Coppice Trust who manage Brickmakers Wood is a registered charity that restores neglected urban woodlands in order to provide effective restorative specific environments for cancer care. To get to the stage of a beautiful, tranquil woodland, they invite vulnerable children and adults, local businesses and the local community to be a part of restoration process.

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Attendees
Nicola Stevenson
Robin Harper
Steve Ager
Cleola Van Eijl
Elizabeth Barker
Kerry Buckley
Tom Selby
Keith Borrett
Rebecca Rolston
Miranda
Ayse Yildit
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