Support GoodGym
Support us to bring people together across demographic divides to make us all happier and healthier
January 16, 2025
At a time when isolation, loneliness and mental health problems are growing, GoodGym is proven to be extremely effective in increasing connectedness, belonging and reducing loneliness. Research from LSE shows we make a 21% reduction in mental distress.
By supporting GodGym you are:
- providing connection and often hope to thousands of older people who face inescapable isolation.
- Providing thousands of hours of support to essential community projects including foodbanks, clothing banks and care homes.
- Building hundreds of thousands of new connections across demographic divides.
- Improving the wellbeing of thousands of people who participate in GoodGym.
- Making our cities greener and more biodiverse
This work is urgently needed. Your support enables us to connect those who are left out. Connected communities are more caring, more resilient and make better decisions.You can help make sure we don’t retreat into isolation and fragmentation. Help us build real-life community and enable positive collective action today.
Start a monthly donation today
HELP FIGHT DISCONNECTION
Florence in Leicester was referred to GoodGym after the last member of her family sadly passed away. Alone and without anyone to talk to or turn to, she was suffering from loneliness and isolation. This is something faced by over a million older people in the UK today. Thankfully, GoodGym was there and stepped in. GoodGymer Steven, began visiting Florence weekly, offering her companionship and a connection to the outside world. Through sharing stories and spending time together, Steven helped Florence to rediscover happiness in her life.
By supporting GoodGym, you are preventing isolation and loneliness amongst the most lonely; often those who can’t leave home.
In our group sessions tackling tasks together creates real-life, nitty-gritty local community and forms life-long connections between individuals and community groups.
Start a monthly donation today
Where Does Your Money Go?
When you support GoodGym, every pound you donate is invested in coordinating support for community projects and older people.
Last year,your donations enabled us to:
- Assist over 1,500 older people with important tasks
- Make over 120,000 new connections between people
- Provide 2,000 visits to reduce loneliness in older people.
- Improve belonging by an average 27% for thousands of participants
- Reduce mental distress by an average of 21% for thousands of participants
As a registered charity GoodGym spends only on achieving charitable outcomes. We aim to keep costs as low as possible and to impact as many people as possible with each pound. We have no office costs, we negotiate for charity pricing or pro-bono support with all of our suppliers and have managed to reduce our costs to almost solely the crucial safety, operational and staff costs to make sure our work is safe and that our website enables us to keep running consistently and efficiently.
What we spend our money on:
- Equipment and safety: the materials needed for our community projects; first aid kits and DBS checks.
- Website; our web platform enables us to efficiently and safely coordinate thousands of tasks to happen every month.
- Operations and oversight; team salaries to manage safeguarding and contact with older people, group session coordination and to manage our finances and team.
- Area activators; to boost participation, start new areas and help us bring new people into GoodGym.
- Getting new people involved; spreading the word about our sessions and making it easy to for people to find out about what we do.
By contributing to GoodGym, you’re investing in the wellbeing of people, the safeguarding of our environment, and the strength of our communities. Every bit of support helps us continue to build a positive and connected future in cities across the UK.
Monthly Donation
Make a monthly donation of £5 / £10 / £25 / Other Amount Monthly donations give us certainty and dependebility and help us provide reliable long-term support.
One Off Donation
£10 / £25 / £50 / Other Amount.
• £5: Helps fund the essential training for our volunteers, ensuring they can support those in need.
• £10: Contributes to the technology that connects volunteers with local tasks in their area and isolated individuals like Florence.
• £20: Supports the coordination of thousands of community tasks each year, from helping older adults to improving local environments.
• £50: Enables us to train and equip Area Activators and TaskForce Volunteers who help thousands of people get fit while giving back to their communities.
• £100: Powers our work nationwide, supporting environmental projects, community groups, and individuals striving to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
