GoodGym helps you get fit by doing good. We’re a group of runners and walkers that love to help our communities.

GoodGym is a not-for-profit organisation that was born in 2009 out of frustration with normal gyms being a waste of energy – energy that could be used to help people in our communities. By developing a new model of voluntary action that combined running/ walking and volunteering, the GoodGym team made it easier to commit to both for the longer term.

Since the organisation was born, GoodGym has spread far and wide! As of 2020, GoodGym is in 58 areas across the UK, with people of all ages and abilities taking part every week. Leeds GoodGym is one of the most recent additions to the GoodGym family – launching in 2019.

GoodGym Leeds now have over 100 members who have completed over 900 ‘good deeds’ and have run and walked hundreds of km’s.

GoodGym offers volunteering help in 3 ways:

1. Community missions – group tasks completed for local community projects (e.g. litter picks, gardening, planting trees, painting)
2. Missions – pairs of runners go to help older people with one-off practical tasks that they are no longer able to do on their own (e.g. changing light bulbs, delivering food parcels, helping to set up computers)
3. Coach runs – single runners go to chat with an older person as part of their weekly run (i.e. run there, have a chat, run back)

As Leeds is still a relatively new GoodGym area, we are on the lookout for new organisations to help. You can request our help via the GoodGym website!

We are also keen to welcome new members. You can find out more about how to join GoodGym HERE.

If you have any questions – please reach out to the Leeds GoodGym Area Activator, Gemma (gemmabridge@goodgym.org)

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