Nine Fox Employees walked 3km, helped Studio Hache and did a park fitness session

Thanks for coming along to the first session of four Impact Week 21CF walks/runs!

So a bit about GoodGym, Ivo Gormley founded this wonderful charity nearly nine years ago for people to do good and get fit! Our mission is to help our communities with physical tasks and reduce loneliness through projects with older persons. There are three ways of doing good with us:

1. First way is a group run, which you went on last night. As a group we meet in 45 areas around the UK on a weekly basis, we run to local charity do something physical for 30 minutes and run back.
2. Missions - these are one off and happen with 2-4 people, the idea is to help older persons in their home with something like setting up a hospital bed, moving furniture or gardening.
3. Coach Running - this is where you go visit an old isolated person once a week to have a chat and keep them company.

After the intro we headed towards Shepherds Bush Market along the lovely sunny backstreets of West London. We headed through the historical market to help Studio Hache - an Arts Community Project for 7-16 year olds. On Sunday they are a big family activities day so had plenty for us to backup.

Splitting into pairs we got going with the following tasks:

• Cleaning shelves and then packing up materials to put back on them.
• Taking plastic tap off the glass - apparently very therapeutic!
• Sorting out papper trays and materials to be packed away
• Taking down the wall display and getting the nails out of the wall with a hammer.

Over 30 minutes we got so much done for Hanna and Stuff Hache - approximately 3 hours work - amazing!

GOOD stuff

Next week headed to the local park to do some conditioning exercises. First off we warmed up - loosening our muscles up, next week focused on our balance & calf strength, following this we did a glutes routine and then a game - on the minute for a minute! Nice!

Check out GoodGym Hammersmith and Fulham Group runs that meet on a Tuesday evening.

Enjoy the runs over the next few days.

PB out