Grab a pew & welcome to this week's run report! Greenwich GoodGym sprung into February with the second week of our 2-part task at St Luke's Church in Charlton Village.

An ice-breaker discussion on the joys of those first flower shoots peeking out as spring approaches ,followed by short but sweet run around the periphery of Charlton Park meant we were energised and ready to go as we met Liz, Church Rector, to update us with this evening's to do list.

From bubble-wrapping the lovely hand-carved nativity set, vacuuming the aisle and pews, to filing the hymn numbers, we had plenty to keep us busy. The DIY experts in the group dismantled a table, while some of us got to polishing the brass in the church (of which there's lots!) including plaques dedicated to local figures with possibly record-breakingly long names.

A polished performance GoodGym-ers!

Next week we're painting at the Montessori School And we're litter picking in Charlton on Sunday

Until next time!

Everyone loves a new GoodGym Task, and this week's did not disappoint!

With a starting point of The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, a slightly hilly run led this evening's team to St Luke's Church in Charlton Village. This beautiful building, with plenty of history, (some of it slightly spooky with the UK's only assassinated Prime Minister being buried in the crypt below...) is a key part of the village, used by many community groups. If you've ever run the London Marathon you may have been greeted by the Chariots of Fire theme expertly played on the church bells...! We therefore had lots to keep us busy, from cleaning candle wax off various surfaces, cleaning chairs and pews, to sorting educational stationery (testing colouring pens & bible quiz sheets). It helped that we had a printed to-do list to refer to as well as lots to talk about, hence the time passed quickly. I'm sure there will be lots more to do at our next task here next week!

Amazing work on the January Challenge & hope to see you all soon!

It was brutally cold this morning as 8 of us arrived at St Richards. Special welcome to Viktor for his first good deed with us, and shout out for bringing four more members of your family to help out! We were out in force today and we had plenty of jobs to keep us all busy. 💪

Julian was a smooth lopper-ator*, lopping all the the branches he could reach off the trees, or should I say, pollarding lime trees as I learned it was called today!

Jenny and Marta worked up a sweat sanding down the lovely wooden door and giving it a fresh coat of varnish - what a difference it has made! And Khai, Cat, Linda and Viktor gained some ground in the war of the weeds out front and back. In fact, Viktor's family practically excavated half the back garden in very little time. A great effort in our mission to clear all the weeds and get the garden ready for planting. 🌻

An hour and a half later and we were ready to warm up with a nice coffee before heading home for some lunch.

Great job team. On Wednesday we're back at Dee's Nursery , continuing to create a roundabout for the kids in the garden!

Until next time 👋

*Credit to Khai, the GoodGym Greenwich Pun King