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Getting lost in South Norwich whilst looking for Fine City Neighbours!

7 Goodgymers helped their local community in Norwich

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Norwich

Wednesday 16th June 2021

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Bobby B

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Six runners gathered on a balmy early mid summer evening at Eaton Park by the bandstand. Whilst we gathered and chatted we were privy to a soothing gospel choir practicing in the background.

We welcomed new runner Sussana on her first run.

The task was to deliver information in the form of a poster to households to advertise online support services for their community. After recieving instructions from Steve, we embarked on our mission and struck off across Eaton Park.

It was a hot sunny evening and quite difficult to run so we went around as a group delivering our public service broadcast information. Lots of people were out and about so it was nice to engage with the local community and there were lots of smiles.

We had a successful mission - the only hiccup when we realised one of the roads was located in Pensylvania, USA. We considered running dowen to Heathrow to catch a flight but then decided against it as we thought Steve would probably not be impressed.

After we finally found the missing Norvic Drive (meant getting a bit lost!!) we completed our task delivery and ran/walked back to the bandstand to cycle home.

Well done everyone who took part!!

This task supported

Fine City Neighbours

Encouraging neighbourliness and social solidarity in Norwich

Fine City Neighbours is a campaign to inspire Norwich residents to build relationships with their neighbours. The aim is to help build informal neighbourhood groups during the pandemic and celebrate those that came about during the last lockdown and those that existed beforehand. This is a project about deepening the fabric of social solidarity for the COVID recovery and beyond. We are producing a website and a postcard to be delivered to houses across the city. The materials we produce will provide advice, guidance and inspiration for street level community building as well as links to more direct support. Fine City Neighbours is about building relationships with people before you need them and they need you.