19 GoodGymers ran 7.5k to help One Big Family helping the homeless charity in Victoria.

Great to have you all along this evening for a fun filled Wednesday run in Westminster!

Weaving a steady 3.5 route South through the bustle of Central London life down to the Ebury Estate in Victoria.

Meeting Mike who set us up with our job for the evening. With more and more being asked of the small Charity, resources are coming in and going out at a crazy rate!

All the clothing we sorted 4 short weeks ago that filled a storage shed have been donated to Westminster’s homeless and vulnerable. It was time for the next influx on donations to come in. But before we could do that space was needed!!

With a flat on the Estate being vacated on Saturday the contents are being donated to the charity so they can give to needing individuals and families.

We had to play Tetris wars cramming 3 storage sheds into 2! Piling boxes and boxes of nappies, bedding, tables and anything else needed while separating the baby food out to be taken to a family day centre on Friday.

35 minutes flashed by and we had successfully completed the task! Allowing vital help to be given in terms of donations to Westminster’s most in need. And clearing the decks so that the now 4 times a week Homeless food run in Victoria to take place smoothly.

Adding a bit of pace into the run on the way back we zipped up to Buckingham Palace before summoning our efforts for speedy dash up the Green Park drag!

Thanks for all your hard work, see you next week for our trip to the Canal and River Trust to maintain our adopted piece of Little Venice Canal.

Have a great week!

Joel

14 GoodGymers ran 5k to help St Andrews Youth Club with a boxing inspired tidy up!

A bright and flowing run through the centre of town got us started off for the evening! Nipping around the majority of the central London foot traffic navigating down to the Oldest Youth Club in the World, St Andrews!!

Meeting the Adrian and Tom who were looking after use tonight we had a quick change of task and got stuck into the intricate tidying of the boxing store cupboard!

Beginning with a very long daisy chain method of removing everything from the chaotic cupboard. We managed to wrestle the room into some order, Archery, music, electrical and boxing sections were now easily accessible and in a precise order!

A splinter group had gone down to the always in need of TLC garage to tidy that and get everything into its rightful place on one of the many makeshift shelves.

The date for the GG vs St Andrews Olympics was set for the 28th of November where we will put our efforts against the mighty superpower that is the St Andrews youth!! The overall score line in 1-1 and we want to take the lead!! Have added a few pictures to show the Kinball match from previous encounters with St Andrew’s!!

Quick as a flash we were away and speeding up the famous Green Park Drag really putting in the hard yards for the evening!!

Great to have our GoodGym first timers along for their maiden voyage with the crew and hope to see you again next time!!

Next week we would love to have you as we do a Treat no Trick Halloween Special!! where we bring along anything we think would be well received by Westminster’s homeless community. Sign Up Here.

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

21 Westminster GoodGymers ran 7k to One Big Family to sort out all the clothing donations from the summer months.

So I was very scared the size of task and the amazing surge in numbers of energetic GoodGymers were not going to marry up but I was very pleased to be proved totally wrong!!

A touristy 3.5k Run South to Victoria lead us to a hidden gem of a charity One Big Family Victoria. With a tiny team of volunteers masterfully helping Westminster’s Homeless with 2 evening meals a week as well as vital clothing and sanitary products.

With the hot food donations this evening already plentiful we didn’t need to do our sandwich production line and instead sorted through 3 sheds full of clothing donations!!

Kids, Women’s and Men’s clothing being speedily and expertly sorted into boxes ready for distribution to local homeless people in the coming weeks. Obviously with night time temperatures dropping this becomes even more critical!!

35 minutes of efficient excellence as we had completed the task perfectly. Easy to access, tidy and ordered boxes complete we zipped back to base with a Spring in our step grabbing a picture with a GG York runner enroute!

Thank you so much for coming along and really hope to see you all again next week when we start our river take over near Little Venice where we will be adopting a section of river to up keep!

Finally a huge thank you and good luck to Westminster GoodGym regular Kate who has been a great GoodGym Westminster Runner!! Probably coming to the most sessions over the last year and us now moving out of London to continue her adventures!!

Have a great week

Smooth Running

Joel

6 Westminster GoodGymers ran 5k (then walked another 3!!) to deliver 300 leaflets for Open Age Charity to promote their upcoming Senior Table Tennis club in the newly refurbished Greenhouse Centre.

Venturing into a new part of Westminster this week! We headed North West to Marylebone to deliver 300 leaflets to help promote a community table tennis club for Westminster’s seniors!

A solid 2.5k run there before we power walked our way around finding as many doors with a letter box, 2 letter boxes or occasionally no letter boxes to deliver to. Post through and sliding under we managed to deliver at a solid rate to houses, flats, community centres and local convince shops.

With the Bat & Chat sessions well promoted and talked about around Marylebone we headed back at a faster pace working up a sweat in the warm October air. Too hot to stretch inside so we looked after our muscles on the very quite Oxford Street.

Hope to see you all next week when we visit One Big Family Homeless Charity to make sandwiches and get there food ready for the Homeless people if Victoria.

Smooth Running

Joel