Old digs, new tricks
8 GoodGymers made their way 4.0km to help the Old Police Station in Brent.
- Monday, 12th of February 2018
- Led by Pritesh Mistry
GoodGym Brent!
Here we go - the age of Pritesh! Sorry, I'll stop.
It was freezing last night and it only got colder as the night went on but seven brave souls joined me in Brent to help out with the regeneration of the old police station in Willesden Green.
No newbies tonight but welcome back to Samina who had been away for six months or so and welcome back to Danny who was back for the second week in a row.
It was a bit of a topsy turvy night as I got to grips with leading the area and whilst I wouldn't call it a turn for the worse when I proudly proclaimed that we were heading right out of the pub to the police station and everyone told me I meant left I may have been slightly worried!
With Liz leading the way (thank you!), we made short work of the 1k trip to the police station where we met Colin and his friend Adi who had an assortment of jobs for us. The old police station is, well very much the old police station but Colin is working to regenerate the building with areas for arts, refreshing the outside with some new plants, fixing up some space at the back for yoga and even has bee hives and is going to be growing flowers. That is by no means and exhaustive list but working on his own (other than volunteers) and with no budget means it's slow going so any help we give is a great help!
Danny, Liz, Uthman, Kathy and Danny weeded and planted outside the station, whilst Samina, Alex, Amy and myself helped move some wooden boards to be used in what will become the fitness area. We got on with things as quickly as we could as much to keep warm as to get lots done and the time flew by.
With everything done we grouped for a photo and then Kathy (thank you!) led us back to the Queensbury, taking a longer 2.5k route and we stretched before heading home.
Thanks everyone for being so welcoming and helping out too. Look forward to seeing you all next week!
Cheers, Pritesh
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Congrats Pritesh, nice one!!
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