A brisk November evening saw 4 GoodGym-ers on a bracing run up the hill to Dee's Childcare in Woolwich, a lovely children's daycare centre with a huge outdoor space perfect for adventures.

Those adventures include small people learning how to cycle, hence things can get a bit congested...! So the plan is to create a traffic-controlling roundabout, which is where we come in. Our ongoing mission is to level the area for this to happen, separating the stones from the soil, both to be used in other areas. With the help of a pickaxe and some shovels we loaded up several wheelbarrels-worth of material, re-purposing plastic veg boxes as sieves to separate the soil for the vegetable patch and stones for the pathway. A busy evening warmed us up brilliantly, and we made great progress before running out of time - then it was all downhill from here (well, back to Woolwich town centre anyway!)

Thanks & have a great week all 🙂

A chill but dry Wednesday evening in November saw 6 GoodGym-ers meet at Charlton House for a gardening task at Charlton United Reformed Church.

After a quick warm up & a biscuit-related ice breaker we were a-wafer a run to the Church garden to meet our host for the task.

This involved lots of weeding as the beds, grass and gravel pathways had become fairly overgrown; helpfully we were well-prepared with trowels, forks etc so made good progress, leaving the area tidier & ready for winter. We had great advice from the team at the garden who assured we were clearing weeds only and none of the pre-planted flowers in the beds.

Great work team - until next week for making short(bread) work of the next task! (no more biscuit puns I promise....)

Tonight, the mission of 7 GoodGym-ers was delivering flyers through letterboxes, for Woolwich Food Cycle, a project helping volunteers turn food donated by local shops & businesses into delicious healthy meals for those in the community who most need them.

Special shout out to Calvin who did his first good deed this evening - it was great to have you with us Calvin and hope you'll be back soon!

We started with a wistful discussion over our favourite holiday destinations before making our way through Charlton Park and on to the Woolwich Common estate, where our task began. Our tag delivery teams quickly ran out of leaflets, admiring the houses along the way (GoodGym is great for discovering new places on your doorstep!). As always we were ready for further adventures so completed the task with a quick litter pick (thanks to Rachel for bringing the litter pick stash!).

Hope to see you all soon - next week we're teaming up with Bexley 😊

This week we gathered at the Old Royal Naval College and shared stories of our worst jobs before a run up maze hill towards the lovely St Richard's Centre in Charlton.

This was our first task at the church and there's loads we can help out with here, from weeding and painting to sanding and varnishing the lovely old doors.

Owen met us with tools at the ready and the rain held off right to the end of our task which was a nice bonus. The task tonight was weeding down the side of the church, a spot that needs a bit of tlc to make sure people stop dumping rubbish there! 7 hands make light if not prickly work with some hidden brambles - our head torches came in handy. We made it quite a way up the path and will continue at our next session.

Next week we're leafleting for the Woolwich foodcycle: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/group-run-fun-session-tbc

Until next time!

This was an extra special group run because it was Sarah Wren's first time leading a session to get signed off as a run leader for Bexley!

And beautifully done it was, with a nice warm up whilst discussing our favourite sandwich fillings. Nothing particularly strange to report on this one although I do find Jenny's love of blue cheese disconcerting 🤢 After a gentle run through the parks, with a loo stop mid way, we arrived bang on time at the Woolwich Common Litter Pick where we battled with our bags and hoops and got to work. Unfortunately there was lots of rubbish left by the last travellers and we were kept very busy picking up all sorts of rubbish, sadly including quite a lot of soaked through nappies. Which will still be here in about 400 years. Well, yes they will most likely outlast humankind then won't they? Ah, this is jolly ain't it? Let's change the tone.

After an hour the common looked much cleaner and we hauled our bags over to the collection point and greeted two potential new Bexley members, come on Bexley! Then there was time for more coffee and onto the rest of our Sundays. Excellent work team and well done to those of you who double deeded with Junior Parkrun this morning!💪🏻

Well done to Sarah, you definitely passed with flying colours and will be a brilliant run leader in Bexley. The first group run is set for the 30th October !

Our next wednesday group run is TBC but will be posted up in the next few days. Until next time!