Red phone box fun: protection and quizzing!
Preserving an iconic landmark for both residents and visitors to enjoy.
Red phone box fun: protection and quizzing!
Preserving an iconic landmark for both residents and visitors to enjoy.
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About this session
Box Walks is a charity that utilises Grade 2 listed red phone boxes to share environmental information and encourage people to walk between them on a route.
The task involves: brushing the area near the phone box clean, brushing the inside of the phone box, wiping down the phone box inside and out, cleaning the windows inside and out and finally, using a step ladder to clean the roof of the phone box. This is a light clean to remove solid particles and dust without affecting the paint work and integrity of the phone box.
We will meet at the Tap Tavern to go to the boxes together but please get in contact for the locations if you would rather meet at the task.
To meet at the Box location, head to the box outside The Prince Blucher pub on Twickenham Green for about 7.20pm
This task supports
Restoration of our iconic, red phone boxes with a twist
We restore Richmond's iconic, red phone boxes and use them as destination points on nature-based walks. Each phone box is given a name and a theme. By visiting the phone box you can unlock interactive content which helps you reduce your environmental footprint on your doorstep. We would like to invite our Good Gym runners to use our routes for your runs and to help us keep our phone boxes in good conditions by giving them a good wipe down when you reach each one. We have been able to show that if the phone boxes are kept looking tidy, this reduces vandalism exponentially. Box Walks is a charity organisation which wants to bring our pone boxes out of retirement to do some good for our communities. We would love your help maintaining our phone boxes. You can see our routes and phone boxes on our website: https://boxwalks.com/
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Make sure you've read our general guidelines for safety for taking part in a GoodGym session.
This is a GoodGym group run, with the option of walking too. You'll meet other GoodGymers at the start location and run or walk to the task together. If you're worried about any aspect of the session, contact your area activator Liz (She/her) by email at lizjones@goodgym.org.
Options are available to run between 0km and 5km in total.
Remember that we will be running or walking to and from the task, so you'll only be running or walking for half this distance in one go.
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