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GoodGym runner update June 2020

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We're back, and there are lots of community missions for you to get involved with.

This month so far, there have been over 200 community missions, and even more are being listed daily. We've been able to do tasks for community projects again, such as schools, parks, food banks, charities and community groups with a wider range of tasks, many of whom need our help more than ever.

There is lots to get involved with. Find your motivation to run, walk or cycle by joining a community mission near you.

Find a community mission

Meet friends at a community mission

Sandy from GoodGym Slough met up with 8 others to help to turnover five allotment plots at Wexham Park Hospital, in order for them to be used as therapy gardens for expectant mums.

Help to restore your community

Steven helped to do some gardening in Lambeth for a community garden that had not been tended to for 3 months during lockdown.

Support community organisations and initiatives

In Newcastle, Louise lent a hand to East End Women, packing up 40 toiletry bags and ambient food parcels for their volunteer delivery drivers to distribute throughout the city.

Do you care about the isolation of older people and want to make a difference with your work? We''re recruiting for a temporary coordinator for a three month post. Find out more here.

Shindig 2020 - save the date

Shindig, an annual gathering of GoodGym runners where we discuss and plan our next steps, sadly had to be cancelled earlier this year. The good news is we''re bringing it back in digital form. Expect the usual mix of fitness, fun and discussion over the weekend of the 7th of August. To make the most of the digital format this will be more flexible than usual, join for a much or as little as you like or submit contributions online. Find out more and register here.

Set a fitness goal on the GoodGym website, and run, cycle, or walk to your next GoodGym task and be encouraged by the GoodGym community.

Set a fitness goal

Good Deeds

Counts all coach visits, community missions and missions.

1	Dom Tooze	44
2	Melanie Young	40
3	Nat Gabrielle	37
4	Nick Moore	32
5	Peter Van Tongeren	30
6	David Ewens	24
7	Matthew	22
8	Anita	21
8	Lenka	21
8	Sam Lefevre	21

Distance Covered

Distance logged this month, you must do at least one good deed in the last 30 days to appear here.

1	Richard Breakspear	632.89km
2	Simon Fitzmaurice	530.99km
3	Paul Becker	515.18km
4	Ercole Marco Lugari	491.35km
5	Mike Jones	459.74km
6	Alison Davidson	397.32km
7	Russ Cahill	382.52km
8	Pascale Maroney	338.53km
9	James Murray	332.45km
10	Danica Priest	330.19km

Cheered

Counts how many times each person has been cheered.

1	Sam Lefevre	463
2	Dom Tooze	440
3	Abi Perrin	413
4	Lenka	355
5	Liv Parker-Scott	330
6	Peter Van Tongeren	316
7	JP	311
8	Michelle	307
8	Pauline Harrison	307
10	David Ewens	291

Cheers

Counts how many cheers each person has given the community.

1	Pauline Harrison	1620
2	Peter Van Tongeren	1482
3	John Hayes	1334
4	JP	940
5	Dharmesh Tailor	826
6	Conroy	577
7	Jenna Barun	566
8	Belinda Robinson	546
9	Nurjehan	533
10	John Bourton	507

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GoodGym runner update Oct 2020

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GoodGym continues during second lockdown

As we head into a second lockdown we''ve put in place guidance to make it possible for us to continue running GoodGym activity safely. We will be making ourselves available to the organisations and individuals who most need our assistance at this time, and so we feel sure that there will be plenty for you to get involved with, that will keep you active, safe and useful in the days ahead.

Community missions
Community missions will focus on essential relief effort only, including food and medicine distribution and supporting foodbanks and homeless charities. Runners are encouraged to self-log any good deed completed personally away from hosted sessions.

Supporting older people

We will continue to run missions to provide essential food shopping and prescription deliveries, hospital discharge tasks and urgent household safety tasks. Coach visits will continue by phone.

Read the full guidance here

How you can stay safe

To keep you safe on community missions we have put guidance in place.

- Face coverings will be mandatory indoors
- Tools will not be shared and will be cleaned in between uses
- The amount of people able to attend a session will be capped on a case-by-case basis depending on whether the working space allows people to remain socially distanced
- Runners should bring their own gloves suitable for the task

Find a session near you

Update your settings

The pandemic means that for some of us our situations have changed and we''ve moved back home or to somewhere new.
Don''t forget to update your missions preferences to make sure you''re available to help with all the places you''ll be in over the Winter and keep your eyes peeled for upcoming essential missions.

Group sessions update
Over the past two months we''ve been working on how we sustain and grow our community missions and group sessions in the long term. Last week, GoodGym''s trustees met to review the notes from the workshops, surveys and research. The central team are working on our lockdown response this week and next, will be reviewing the trustees feedback and providing a further update as soon as possible. Thanks to everyone for their support and input with this so far.

GoodGym Haringey win heroes award

A huge congratulations to everyone at GoodGym Haringey, who just won the Haringey Heroes award presented to them by Sheila Peacock, Mayor of Haringey, recognising the work runners do in the community. Give them a cheer here.

We are excited to welcome lots of amazing new area activators to the GoodGym family across the country. Please give a cheer to Michael Owens to Cardiff, Gemma Bridge to Leeds, Sian Dobson Hughes to Stockport, Julia Shmotkina to Redbridge, Russell Cowell to Chelmsford, Mel Young to Bristol, Michal Czekajlo to York, Rachel Henry to Greenwich, David Stoker to Waltham Forest and Alan Bowley to Ipswich. Support them on the GoodGym website here.