Leaflet Drop For Sam Beare Hospice

On this cold freezing night 9 GG members met to deliver leaflets for Sam Beare Hospice.

A big welcome to Viktoriia who we met at the volunteer for Woking event while she was there representing another charity. Viktoriia also happened to be a friend of Agathe 😀

Wayne, Adam, Katie, Alys, Agathe, Kirsty, Nadia, & Rebecca met at Woking leisure center all wrapped up 🥶

It was great seeing Rebecca who walked over to collect some leaflets to deliver, not quite ready to run as of yet after her surgery but not long now 😀.

After a warm up session by Adam which Quinn also got involved in 🐶 we headed out of the park towards Mount Hermon to hit the houses there we split up into two groups one on each side 🏃🏻‍♂️ including the Cul-du-Sacs.

It was so cold even with gloves it was very difficult & Wayne & Adam had shorts on the nutters 😮

Unfortunately we did not manage to do as many roads of we had planned due to the weather, but GG members between them will take leaflets and deliver them locally throughout the week and will also be handing them out on the weekend park runs until they have all gone 😀.

Junior Park Run

On this cold chilly morning 3 GG members got out of their warm beds to carry out various volunteering roles at Junior Park Run 🏃🏻‍♂️

Wayne, Alys, & James were at the park to help, cheer and support the runners around the 2k course.

Wayne & Alys were marshals around the course while James was supporting the runners through the final tunnel 😀

In total this morning 92 young runners braved the cold with the fastest time being a fantastic 07:41 👏 There were also 23 PB's great running by everyone.

This afternoon Woking GG did a rare Saturday task at the Church Of St John's The Baptist in West Byfleet. ⛪

Since the volunteer for Woking event we have had so much interest that we are now pretty much full until the New Year 😀

So today Wayne, Nadia, Anne, & Alys met at the church. Anne ran along the canal with Alys on her bike setting the pace, in total Anne ran 10k 👟

We met Neil who is the church warden and he was very grateful. He told us that normally members of the congregation help out but in recent months this has been happening less and was very interested about Woking GG. The grounds of the church were quite big so with rakes, and bags in hands we started in a particular corner and got cracking, there was also an Xmas fate at the church today so it was quite busy but we had many people come to us to say thank you for what we were doing.

Nadia called her dad who was coming to the area and asked him to bring his leaf blower which made work much easier. 🍁

We got talking about how many members of Woking GG are loving running at the moment and are getting great times. Alys did a PB this morning at Brooklands park run, while Nadia is also getting great times when running.

Neil after filling up 5 bags Neil came out with hot beverages, bacon rolls, and a warm tomato soup for Nadia, which was very tasty. 😋

After filling up another 5 bags we could finally see the grass, it was a great team effort this morning and I'm sure we will be back as the church has many things that GG can help with.

After a solid hour of work we packed away the tools, put the bags of leaves in one corner of the ground to be collected and said our goodbyes.

Have a great Saturday Everyone.

After meeting some of the Woking Rotary club members at the working together for Woking event, three GoodGym members attended the Woking firework extravaganza to help out as marshals. 🎆🎇 Following a safety briefing, which was very well organised, everybody was given their jobs. Some needed a bit of energy in the form of chips and we were given hot drinks too. ☕ 🍟 Alys and Nadia were on gate duty and Anne was on patrol in the park. 🔦 We learned that this year was a record-breaking year for pre-booked tickets 🎟️ so congratulations to the Rotary club for doing such a great marketing campaign. All of a sudden guests started filtering in and before we knew it the firework display started. What a spectacular sight, especially the grand finale!
Great work team 🤩 Lots more tasks coming up in these winter months which the team is looking forward to!