GoodGym

GoodGym Do Good. Get Fit. Join a free workout that helps the environment and your community

Run🏃, walk 🚶 & cycle 🚴 - all abilities welcome

Join us at www.goodgym.org

We are a community of walkers, runners and cyclists that combine getting fit by doing good. We do this in four ways:

1. Group Runs
2. Community missions
2. Coach visits
3. Missions

Group runs
Group runs are sessions in which a group of people run or walk to assist a community group or charity with a physical task. Group runs have a start location where everyone meets before heading off to r...

Community missions
Community missions are sessions in which a group of people support a community group or charity with a physical task. GoodGym gets asked to do a huge variety of tasks for many different organisations ...

Coach visits
Coach visits are regular runs, walks or cycles to visit an isolated older person. We ask you to commit to a weekly social visit to an older person for a minimum of six months. We call the older person...

Missions
A mission is a one-off practical task to help an older person over 50 in their home or garden. Missions aim to enable older people to remain safe and independent at home. We help out with a whole rang...

Join us at www.goodgym.org.

What a pleasure to help Mrs J begin using a laptop 💻It’s easy to take for granted what technology unlocks for us, and th...
05/10/2026

What a pleasure to help Mrs J begin using a laptop 💻

It’s easy to take for granted what technology unlocks for us, and the knowledge of how to use it. GoodGymer Tatielly spent a short time going through the basics:
♥️ Checking emails
♥️ Browsing the internet
♥️ Using notepad so Mrs J could write and store her poetry

GoodGym boosts life satisfaction, says London School of Economics!New research from the London School of Economics (LSE)...
02/10/2026

GoodGym boosts life satisfaction, says London School of Economics!

New research from the London School of Economics (LSE) found that combining exercise with volunteering through GoodGym delivers a meaningful and lasting boost to mental health, with benefits still measurable more than six months after a participant's last session.

In short:

- Taking part in GoodGym boosts life satisfaction considerably. It is equivalent to 63% of the wellbeing boost of being employed, compared to having no job, and 73% the wellbeing boost of having a partner, compared to being single.

- Mental health, loneliness, belonging, connectedness, and trust all improved significantly among participants compared with people who signed up but never took part.

- These benefits remain detectable more than six months after someone's last session.

- The estimated wellbeing benefits generated by GoodGym are more than 40 times greater than the cost of running the programme.

This research is a continuation of ongoing research into the benefits of GoodGym on wellbeing. Previous studies have reported significant boosts to feelings of belonging, connectedness, and reductions in mental distress and loneliness.

Having the data to prove what GoodGymers already know, that GoodGym makes us feel great, can only mean one thing. We need to reach more people, and more communities 🚀

GoodGym Exeter joined DIY SOS for a week 😮The magic of the show comes from the quick turnaround of people's homes. That ...
02/10/2026

GoodGym Exeter joined DIY SOS for a week 😮

The magic of the show comes from the quick turnaround of people's homes. That magic is provided, in part, by volunteers. When DIY SOS came to film in Exeter, GoodGym jumped at the opportunity!

GoodGymers are featured throughout the programme doing everything from demolition prep, garden landscaping, building furniture and so so much more 🙌

Today marks the start of Black History Month, and this year’s theme couldn’t resonate more closely with what we do: Hono...
01/10/2026

Today marks the start of Black History Month, and this year’s theme couldn’t resonate more closely with what we do: Honouring Our Communities.

It’s a moment to celebrate the everyday leaders, local volunteers, and grassroots organisers who sustain neighbourhoods up and down the country.

Connected communities aren’t built by chance - they thrive because people show up for the organisations and people trying to help ♥️

Join the GoodGym team as our new Head of Business Development 🚨This is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to take...
30/09/2026

Join the GoodGym team as our new Head of Business Development 🚨

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to take responsibility for income generation at GoodGym.

We're at an exciting stage of growth and expansion across the UK, and this role is key to continuing this trajectory and as part of our senior leadership team.

If you're looking for a role that has impact up to it's eyeballs, national scale and a team you look forward to seeing every day - this is for you.

Apply on the GoodGym website 🚀

Move for 10 by This Girl Can invites women to find 10 minutes, 10 times a month to get active. Aimed at women who strugg...
28/09/2026

Move for 10 by This Girl Can invites women to find 10 minutes, 10 times a month to get active. Aimed at women who struggle to find the time amidst busy lives.

To celebrate the Move for 10 campaign, GoodGym sessions across the UK have hosted short warm up and exercise sessions to show the power of just 10 minutes of movement 💪

24/09/2026

Library of Things ❤️

Shout out to organisations bringing communities together, reducing waste and teaching us to share 🙌

GoodGymer George was thrilled to help Miss S reclaim her garden from the wilderness 🌳Overloaded caring for her severely ...
23/09/2026

GoodGymer George was thrilled to help Miss S reclaim her garden from the wilderness 🌳

Overloaded caring for her severely autistic son, the garden became overgrown and unusable. Yet in less than an hour George cut away brambles, ivy and weeds, and regained access to the trampoline - clearing a whole half of the garden.

There’s more to do for Miss S, and many more Missions like this, that GoodGymers help with in their communities every week. If you’re someone who wants to make a difference in your area, come and get involved!

GoodGym Ealing won a Team of the Year award at the Southall Community Awards 2026.Area Activator Kash and TaskForce Seva...
21/09/2026

GoodGym Ealing won a Team of the Year award at the Southall Community Awards 2026.

Area Activator Kash and TaskForce Sevan attended the awards evening as team representatives on Friday 11th September, where they were thrilled to find out that GoodGym Ealing was recognised in the team category.

The award recognises the contribution GoodGymers have made through volunteering sessions across Southall, working alongside local communities.

The award was presented by Southall Community Alliance (SCA) Trustee Jaskaran Singh. GoodGym Ealing received congratulations from the SCA Chair Jags Sanghera (a secret GoodGymer himself!), the SCA Director Janpal Basran (the host of the wonderful Western Road Urban Garden group sessions), and Cllr Bassam Mahfouz (who joined one of our group runs last year).

When GoodGym paired Maya with a mentor in Bradford, nobody expected the name on the email to be one she already knew.May...
18/09/2026

When GoodGym paired Maya with a mentor in Bradford, nobody expected the name on the email to be one she already knew.

Maya is a marketing apprentice with a longstanding interest in community work. Now part of GoodGym's Future Leader programme, she led her first session and has been creating content to educate and inspire more people like her to get involved.

What Maya didn't know was that her mentor would turn out to be Lucy - her old RE teacher from secondary school! For Maya, the coincidence made everything easier. "It's kind of nice to have that connection again," she says, "and the same mindset of helping out in the community."

"The creativity that goes into those reels and that ability to communicate with young people... I think we'll make a great team, because I know how to lead a group of young people, but Maya will bring a load of skills to the table that I just don't have." - Lucy

Find out more about Maya's story: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/stories/small-world-how-maya-s-old-re-teacher-became-her-goodgym-mentor

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