Internships at Good Gym

Good Gym is a growing social start up. We make it easy for people to exercise and do good for their community at the same time. The company has been cited as a leading innovator in the area of aging and social care. The Good Gym provides meaningful ways to exercise. It connects people who want to get fit with physical tasks that need to be done, and which benefit the community. We can do anything from shifting rubble, and planting gardens to making deliveries and friendly visits to older people. Group runs: We run regular group runs during which we stop and help local community organisations. Over the past year we’ve cleared land for a community garden, moved rubble, tided up community centres, shifted soil on allotments, helped a school to make a new vegetable patch, moved books around the library and decorated community centres for Christmas. Working with less mobile isolated people: The Good Gym pairs runners with isolated less-mobile people in their area. Runners jog to their house, deliver something nice, have a brief chat and are on their way again.It helps people get fit by providing a good reason to go for a run and it helps the person being visited by providing them with some friendly human contact and a newspaper or piece of fruit. The Good Gym is running in East London, in partnership with the Olympic Park Legacy Company, before launching a version that can be used more broadly.