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23 Goodgymers helped their local community in Camden
Pritesh Mistry
Paul Bown
John Shirley
Frances Powrie
Steve Lee
Elizabeth Pang
Hayley Oberlander
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Rosie Ashworth
Katherine Holdstock
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Flora McWilliam
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Elizabeth
Abi Perrin
Molly Bridge
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Thomas Saitta
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Camden

Wednesday 16th January 2019

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Pritesh Mistry
Pritesh Mistry

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Paul Bown
Paul Bown

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Frances Powrie
Frances Powrie

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23 Goodgymers ran 5-7km to help Cecil Sharp House and Sheltered housing!

Thank you very much for the kind words, cheers, cake and the card! It's been an absolute pleasure to lead you wonderful people over the last three years - you are amazing!

Welcome along to the newbies this week - Tom, Molly, Flora and Frances etc - thanks for coming!

In the news this week:

  1. Come join us for Sofia Races in May! Full details here.
  2. Check out all the raceteam events here - lots happening :)
  3. Goodgymers are doing Finsbury Parkrun and then the Islington Starter Session on Saturday 26th January - come join.

Sheltered Housing - Ashdown Crescent:

Frances led a team of 8 people to help Sheltered Housing up in Kentish Town. This is a fantastic charity that helps care for older people. The 50+ residents use the garden regularly during the day so our help in very valuable.

The group completed a 7km run overall, helped plant some winter plants/bulbs and sweeping up leaves and debris.

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Cecil Sharp House:

The rest of us headed to Cecil Sharp House, the home of English Folk Song and Dance. We split into three teams:

  • Gravel Team emptied 10 bags of gravel along the edge of the front garden/driveway.
  • A team collected up the last of the leaves around the car park and backgarden.
  • Another group collected stigs, branches and twigs up from the back garden lawn.

Once team gravel was done they helped everyone else collect up leaves, weed and move bags of leaves to either Susannah's car or the coincidental recycling truck that arrived.

After a group photo we headed to Primrose Hill for some shuttle runs and calf raises before heading home to the pub.

Sign up for next week here when we'll be making beds for the homeless!

Cheers PB out


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English folk music and dance arts centre and venue staging live shows, with an archive and library. We help to maintain the garden space.

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