Under April Skies - sun grows cold, sky gets black

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Brighton
Michael
Sarah Katharine
Juliet O'Brien
Pippa A
Nicola Thomas
Angela Mynott
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Brighton

Saturday 27th April

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Six Good Gym runners helped local volunteers with setting up and running Spring in the Patch community festival. It was luckily mainly a dry April day for set-up until about half way through the event when it started raining unfortunately. Juliet (who is also a Patch volunteer committee member) ran the community mission. Sarah and Pippa helped with set-up which involved putting up tents, carrying boxes from the container, setting up the bar and tea tent. Sarah came back for another volunteer shift later collecting donations on the gate, the innovation of being able to now take card donations has really helped. Nikki and Michael joined later too for different shifts, both on the tea tent serving tea, coffee, cold drinks and a range of home-made delicious cakes. The event attracted about 300 people and had four bands, bar, tea tent, a range of stalls including craft, hair braiding, face painting, Green party, Labour party and activities such as yoga and archery. We event had a potential MP volunteering on the bar! It was a very successful event, despite the rain and the Good Gym volunteers made a big difference.


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A community group which aims to promote and protect 'the Patch', a cosy small park located in Hanover / Elm Grove Area of Brighton, as a wildlife friendly green

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