Stephanie Stevenson


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Gardening at St Barnabas Church in Southfields
🗓Saturday 9:15am

📍St Barnabas Church SW18 5EP

This mission will make a community garden an even more pleasant spot

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Mon 31st Mar at 6:45pm

I only have eyes (chits) for you, my sweet potato.

Wandsworth Report written by Stephanie Stevenson

It's potato planting time! And who knew all your needed was some potatoes and elbow grease! A group of us planted a load of potatoes at the GG garden in Clapham - which we'll harvest later this year and donate.

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Sat 5th Apr at 9:15am

Gardening at St Barnabas Church in Southfields

This mission will make a community garden an even more pleasant spot

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Stephanie Stevenson signed up to a community mission.

Sat 26th Apr at 10:00am

WWF x GoodGym Wandsworth: Gardening at Coronation Garden, Southfields

This local small park is totally community run and a hub for families using the local schools and nursery.

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Mon 31st Mar at 6:45pm

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Mon 10th Mar at 6:30pm

P-ain’t no stopping us now!

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

What a session! A big warm welcome to Hollie , who bravely joined us for her first ever GoodGym session and we also had the pleasure of welcoming Michael from Tower Hamlets, who joined us for his first group run in Wandsworth. Lovely to have you both with us.

We had a new task for the evening, one that was short in distance but big on impact. Wandsworth Bereavement Services provide invaluable support to people coping with grief, offering a compassionate space for those navigating difficult times through free counselling. With a paint job last done over 30 years ago, they asked for with some much-needed painting and decorating.

We jumped straight into the task with typical GG energy – tackling the rooms named August, Summer, and Winter. Armed with tape and rollers, we delved into the technical jargon of the painting world. Words like "cutting in" were casually thrown around as if we were all seasoned pros even if the techniques were slightly more mixed.

There was some debate over whether we were getting more paint on ourselves or the walls, but I think we all know the answer – it was a bit of both. By the end of the session, however, we could all agree that the rooms were looking much fresher, and progress had definitely been made.

Next week, we’ll be back to finish what we started and finish giving the place a great facelift for the service users. If you're in the mood for some more fun this Saturday, join Jason at Age UK Wandsworth where we'll be washing buses and tackling a few other bits and bobs. It’s a task that's definitely cleaner than painting. Fingers crossed.

Thanks again to everyone for your hard work and enthusiasm for a massive task, hope to see you all for the big finish next week!

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Mon 10th Mar at 6:30pm

Painting the treatment rooms at Wandsworth Bereavement Services

Support this free counseling service for Wandsworth residents

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Stephanie Stevenson went on a group run

Mon 3rd Mar at 6:30pm

To have and to (squat)hold, for batter or for worse, in quizness and in health

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

We were a lovely big group last night, which was brilliant as we had a lot to celebrate!

We got to welcome G to GoodGym for the first time - great to have you join us! It was also lovely to have some visitors from Merton - hello Rachael and Jade, and welcome!

Perhaps the good turnout had something to do with our very own Catherine leading the session to become a fully fledged run leader? Catherine absolutely smashed it all, taking us seamlessly from warm up to stretches with a killer fitness session in between. Give her a big cheer!

It might have also had something to do with the double social night - we had not one, but two fantastic social options to choose from. It was our regular monthly pub quiz as usual, but as it was Shrove Tuesday there was also the choice of going for pancakes. What a decision!

We kicked off the night with some great warm ups, and the question of the week was suitably themed. What is your favourite pancake filling? Answers ranged from savoury to sweet, from the classic sugar and lemon to the more avant garde biscoff and nutella!

We set off for Doddington, where we met up with the rest of the team and set about doing various jobs. There is always loads to do at this community garden, which has been transformed from a derelict space on top of a multi story carpark to a thriving area which local residents use for growing food, educating children about nature and composting.

We were tasked with all sorts of jobs, from pruning to digging trenches, to cardboard laying and transporting strawberries, to dispatching a Christmas tree!

If that wasn't enough of a workout, little did we know Catherine had even more in store for us. A fiendishly inventive Shrove themed circuits challenge, complete with star jumps, high knees, repeater lunges, oblique crunches, vertical jumps and explosive squats. See what she did there?! The result was a great all over workout.

Then came the big decision of the night - quiz or pancakes? The majority came down on the seasonal side of things, and had a lovely time eating the sweet treats. Meanwhile a smaller group hit up the pub, and managed a place on the podium in second position! A good time was had by all.

There is lot of fun stuff coming up, including this international women's day run on Saturday - all welcome! Next weekend there is a lovely community mission to help spruce up an day care facility while Monday's group run is a painting job at Wandsworth bereavement services. Hope to see you there! And once again - congratulations to run super leader Catherine.

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Mon 24th Feb at 6:30pm

A change for the letter

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

This week's run was part two of a massive job we started last Monday, so it was great to find a group of happy smiling GGers ready to tackle the challenge at the BAC last night!

A big welcome to Tekeste who joined for the first time - lovely to have you with us!

The task was for an intergenerational charity called Sparkle, which aims to bring together the youngest and oldest in our community to prevent loneliness, share skills and have fun. They wanted to spread the word about their weekly clubs which happen locally, and to get as many people as possible involved.

Last week we addressed, stuffed and sealed over 1000 envelopes, and last night it was time to deliver them!

So after a good run to the church where the boxes were waiting for us, we divided up into teams, each captained by a task force leader, and took a road each.

Armed with an armful of envelopes the delivery was swift and efficient, and before long we were all reunited in the church hall to get a few more envelopes ready to go.

There was just time to squeeze in a tough fitness session outside. Featuring sprints, jacks, plank and wall sits, all our major muscle groups were given a good work out - and hopefully not too much of it was caught on all the ring doorbells!

Next week we're back for our monthly run to Doddington roof garden followed by a social and we have a fun community mission coming up in March helping sort the outside area of a day centre for the elderly.

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Jack Da Silva

Thu 27th Feb at 10:07am

great task!

Tekeste Ghebremariam

Tue 25th Mar at 9:11am

Yh it was incredibly fun to run and post

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Mon 24th Feb at 6:30pm

Deliver letters for Sparkle intergenerational charity

Second part of the job we started the week before!

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Mon 17th Feb at 6:30pm

Pushing the envelope? We totally mailed it!

Wandsworth Report written by Anastasia Hancock (she/her)

We've gardened in freezing rain, scraped graffiti in sub zero temps, even pulled weeds with the threat of snow - and finally, the evening came. An indoor task! Perfect timing as well, as it was pretty nippy out there last night.

Our job for the evening was to address and stuff envelopes for a charity called Sparkle which runs an intergenerational centre. It brings together elderly people who might be facing loneliness with young ones who can benefit from their experience. A brilliant idea! They just need some help spreading the word about their amazing offering.

So we met at St Michael's church, where some of the activities including gentle exercise, arts and singing are held. It may have been a toasty inside task, but it was no less of a challenge as we found we had no fewer than 1700 envelopes to fill!

Wasting no time we formed an efficient production line, some of us writing, some stuffing and some sealing. While we worked the conversation was certainly wide ranging, from the merits of singing butlers to the best parkrun breakfasts, the joy of sleeper trains and what exactly is meant by 'vibe merchants'.

No wonder then that some of us may have got a little distracted and 'Dear Neighbour' became 'Dear Envelope'! Mentioning no names but a certain glossy beard might be a good disguise?

After a good solid session working away, we had a final count and managed a grand total of over 1000 envelopes - amazing! Next week we'll take on the job of delivering them - hope to see as many of you as possible there to get the word out far and wide!

We had got so used to the comfy warm room that our planned session on agility and balance morphed into a cosy strength and conditioning session. But that didn't mean that there was less, ahem, vocal feedback. Still, hopefully Pritesh didn't pull every single muscle in his body and Steph's hip flexors survived the journey home!

Great work everybody. Join us next week for the second part of the task or check out this week's community missions.

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