22 Goodgymers ran 4-6km to leaflet for Green Gym and sweep leaves for Castlehaven!

Welcome along to Miki, whose first time it was last night! Lovely to have you along.

In the news this week:

1. Well done to John who hit 200 Good Deeds last night - big numbers!
2. Welcome to Abi Perrin, Liz Mills and Katie Roberts to the Camden Taskforce, they are joining Kat and John.
3. Many thanks to Katherine and Rosie who have been part of taskforce for the last 18 months and have now stepped down.

It was a bit chiller than predicted but we were still out there doing good and getting fit - nice!

Green Gym Leafleting:

Chris and Frances led a group each to leaflet for the wonderful Green Gym, a group that organises monthly outdoor tasks in the community, a bit like us but no running.

Leaflet fun!

Frances' group headed to Kentish Town and Tufnell Park area to circulate around 150 leaflets, meanwhile Chris' team headed to Primrose Hill area to deliver there's. The most exciting thing that happened was a passerby telling Steve he has nice legs!

Castlehaven Community Centre:

The rest of us headed to Castlehaven to finish off a task we started three weeks ago. This fantastic community centre have big plans for their Nature Area, but before they can get started they need all the leaves cleared from the compost area (where they put all the leaves in Autumn from the two parks).

Armed with rakes, grabbers and big sacks we got to work collecting all the leaves up and then dragging the sacks to area for recycling. Good work! We then headed along the canal for a run back to base - lovely jubbley.

Sign up for next here where we have a new task helping Age UK and we'll be back making beds for the homeless.

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20 Goodgymers ran 3-6km to help Scope Charity Shop and C4WS!

Thanks for coming along guys, nice to have two indoor tasks (lucky it didn't rain until the end).

In the news this week:

1. A massive well done to Liz who just hit 100 Good Deeds - amazing work in 9 months! Liz has been doing missions, group runs and more all across London.
2. Also a huge well done to Abi whose hit 50 good deeds, she has been a committed Camden Group Run member and she does missions all over the place.
3. Come along to the social tonight in Old Street - puns, pints and Pritesh!

Scope Task:

10 of us headed 1km to Camden High Street to help the wonderful Scope Charity Shop, over 40 minutes we did the following:

• Clean windows
• Dusting lights
• Gift aid sorting
• Hoovering and cleaning office & kitchen
• Sorting clothes - keep or recycle
• Labelling clothes

As always Helen appreciated our hark work, we left for a 2km run home knowing we'd helped our community.

C4WS led by Chris:

Chris the cracking leader took the other group of 10 people to help our weekly winter task at the American International Church. This was week three of our us helping the C4WS volunteers at the homeless shelter, as ever we were quick, efficient and appreciated by Jonathan and his team.

Once the 18 beds were made, Chris took the group off for a 4km run before heading back to base to stretch.

Sign up for next week here.

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24 Goodgymers ran between 3-7km to stack logs for Skip Garden and garden for Belsize Community Library!

Welcome along to Elize who was on tour from Lambeth! No newbies last night but plenty of regulars, always lovely to see you. Please do sign up for group runs so I can plan tasks accordingly.

In the news this week:

1. The GG Christmas Party is on Saturday 1st December near Elephant and Castle - dress as something beginning with C for Camden like Clint Eastwood, Cat Woman or a the Canal! - full details here.
2. Frances is leading a 16km long run this Saturday along the Southwark Circle - sign up here.
3. Plus there is a Community Mission helping Crouch End Open Spaces on Sunday, free picnic to finish!

After our introductions we warmed up and split into two groups:

Skip Garden Report:

Frances led a team of 11 to help Skip Garden, managed by Global Generation this amazing charity in the heart of St Pancras puts on educational programmes and activities for children and adults.

The task this time was to stack up tons and tons of logs which will be used to make pizza's in the kitchen, which in turn funds the charities activities.

After the task was done the guys enjoyed a progression run around Granary Square and an early finish to the pub.

Belsize Community Library Report:

A team of 13 of us headed up, up, up the hill to a new task - Belsize Community Library is a charity and community run centre of learning that puts on lots of meeting and activities on top of the obvious quality book borrowing.

The Hills Have GOOD!

We met Emma, the Business Manager, who tasked us with sawing away a tree, sweeping up and weeding. We split into teams of 3-4's and got to work. Weeders weeded planters and pots, sweepers swept leaves and rubbish and sawers tidied up an overgrown tree. We made sure most people had a go with the sawing - nice!

After 30 minutes we'd collected up 6 bags of leaves, weeds and tree that will hopefully be composted by our friends at Antrim Allotments. On our way home we went via Primrose Hill and learnt how to effectively run down hill - flying!!!

Well done all! Sign up for next week here.

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27 Goodgymers ran 5km to help Kentish Town City Farm prepare for their Apple Day!

Welcome along to Alexis whose first time it was last night.

In the news this week:

1. The GoodGym Christmas Party is on 1st December down in Burgess Park, GG Camden is very good at socialising so we want a big group representing. Theme - come as something beginning with the first letter of your area - aka Cheerleader for Camden.
2. Well done to Hayley who completed her first half at the Royal Parks Half Marathon last weekend and Steve Lee who did Yorkshire Marathon! Of course well done to everyone whose raced recently!
3. The GG Monthly Social is in Bethnal Green on 8th November and Frances is leading a long run on 16th November.

After we'd warmed up Rosie led the way to Kentish Town City Farm, where this Sunday they have their Apple Day aka Harvest Festival. It's a brilliant day of fun for all the family! Our task was to put up not one but two gazebos - KTCF has got one but they also borrowed another from Frelighters City Farm in Islington.

Once we were up on the top field we split into two teams of 15 and 11, thinking that the KTCF gazebo was bigger but actually the small gazebo team became the bigger team once we realised that the Frelighters gazebo was huge! It's like David and Golaith... maybe..

Team + Work = Goat Hugs

Using astute team work skills and communication the teams got to work placing the A, B and C poles in postition for lift off. Once parts were ajoined it started looking like a gazebo. On both occasions once the canvas was fitted their were shouts for TOGGLES, TOGGLES PLEASE, TOGGLES NEEDED HERE! Everyone essentially got thoroughly excited by the word toggle(s), it's fair play it is a brilliant word to shout.

Once the legs were up we were in business, however on the bigger gazebo we were lacking a leg! At one point it looked like Hanry was going to have to stay their all night... dont worrt it got sorted (probably). Next up came the poop, why poo you say? Well the big bags of muck are needed to weigh down the legs and keep them in place.

Once we were packed up we did some goat hugging with Rosie the baby goat, Rosie even met Rosie - it was such fun :)

Thanks for coming guys - next week are going back to the farm to take down the gazebos! Sign up here.

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