Goodgym Slough are now 8 weeks into running and doing good deeds... Each week new runners join us and this week it was Meera who took the plunge to run and do good with us...A warm welcome to you

Before we headed out to help ** The Parvaaz Project** we were joined briefly by Fiona Perry, Healthwatch Officer from The Healthwatch Slough. She gave us a brief overview of what they do as an independent national champion for Slough people who use health, social care services.

More about Healthwatch can be found on their website www.healthwatchslough.co.uk

Thank you for visiting us and the free pens

We did a couple of warm up games before heading out on our run... which dare I say it... confused the runners.. Mental note on a more simpler warm up next time... Thanks to Darren, Chrissy and Keira for back marking today

Raison D'etre

On arrival at the centre, Alex, our task owner, who is visibly so passionate about the centre and the work they do, showed us some photos of the centre users and how it has impacted their lives.

Hearing the stories was heart warming and is great to hear the difference our good deeds make

Skip it out

Our main task today was to clear out the bin store area and empty everything into the skip

Michelle, Chrissy, Ashu, Darren, Rachel and Keira jumped straight into this task! Keira literally jumped into the bin store and Darren actually jumped into a full skip... Never seen so many happy runners with their hands in soggy bin bags

Great job though Team Gloves

Another Brick In The Wall

Ricky and Dan Our tools men needed little persuasion to don the gloves and the mask and got straight to work on scrubbing off the peeling paint from the brick wall

Don't stop be-leafing

The rest of the team cleared away bags of Autumn leaves and public litter from the car park areas.

Once again, so great to see how 30 minutes of our voluntary work has on the task owners premises..

Thank you team Goodgym Slough for such a great effort again.

To Plank or Not to Plank..

Meera said Not! so after one round of plank vs run, we let our newest runner decide for us ( much to the relief of everyone else)

Missions Are Go!

Pleased to report that we are getting some Mission referrals on the system and GoodGym central are busy pairing verified runners with missions

If I have checked your docs and they have been approved then please double check your settings (via profile pic) and make sure you click 'mission' under settings

Chris and I look forward to doing the first mission in a few weeks

Slight change to next weeks task. Claire from WWT has asked if we could help label pavement drains with Yellow Fish Plagues rather than cutting back the brambles around the stream. More details under Group Runs

Social!

Michelle suggested we have our first social! Everyone unanimously agreed.. so lets get a date in the diary..

I've set up a what's app group.. to join it just send me a message (07718 905 286)

We can use this group to agree tasks, training runs, put forward any suggestions... and book the odd social...

Thanks again to everyone who came this evening

Manjit