Dried off from flyering we were joined by six other goodgymers for an indoor session as the weather was too treacherous for goat mountain escapades.

It was lovely to also welcome Bethan for the first time this evening!

We were tasked with doing something very unique this evening, making seed bombs out of clay, mud and soil for the farm to distribute at a community event.

A small group ventured into the woods to retrieve some soil before heading in. We then had to remove twigs and worms from the soil before mixing the soil with clay and water and eventually the seeds.

We then rolled these into small ping pong sized balls before removing them for safe keeping.

We were tasked with making 60 but Abby counted 217!!

Definitely a unique task and we were even rewarded with cake 🍰

Tamara, from the Rose Road Association activities team, was there to greet us and explain the task in hand. The loft needed a good sort out as lots of the toys, puzzles and games were in a muddle after being well used by the children and young people. We set to work pulling boxes off the shelves to check the contents. Some of us focused on finding the illusive missing puzzle pieces while others tried to categorise an assortment of sensory toys and questionable plastic items which must have a purpose - hopefully one day we will find out! The time absolutely flew by and we found ourselves having to pack up before we had made it through all the boxes. We quickly divided into “sorted” and “miscellaneous not sorted” boxes leaving the loft much tidier. Stay tuned for round two of the great loft clean!

Goodgym Southampton is one year old today!! 🎉🎂

To celebrate we went to city farm with an army of goodgymers ready and eager to help with whatever task Tom may have had in mind for us. We were pretty sure it was going to be more goat mountain shenanigans but were shocked when farm volunteer Danni mentioned that this evening we would be helping put all the animals to bed and meeting them all by means of celebration and thankyou.

We were thoroughly spoilt - getting to feed the sheep and goats, getting walked by the new pygmy boys, putting the chickens and ducks to bed and meeting all the reptiles from the blue tongued skink to the gecko and giant african land snail.

After our tour of the farm we were kindly given use of the community room to celebrate our birthday with cake and drinks kindly supplied by Energise Me and Ellie.

We were also delighted to see Paul and Simon back with us after last weeks litter pick and to welcome Aimee for her first goodgym task.

Its been an incredible year with 157 tasks(!!!). Heres to seeing what year two brings!

Before birthday celebrations could commence at the farm this evening we were back to work delivering the 10,000 leaflets alloted to us to deliver.

We had 8 super helpers this evening and it really did prove that 8 and not 3 is the magic leafleting number! We even held a guard of welcome honour for Leszek who found us.

we very quickly got through 200 leaflets with some time for frolics thrown in before heading back to the farm. Great job team!

Wow what an evening!

We had a gap in the diary this evening with no community organisation based tasks so decided to do our first litter pick.

Living directly behind an alley which is regularly frequented with litter that solo attempts make little difference to i was keen to get it sorted for a task.

We were joined this evening by two lovely newbies Simon and Paul who forgo both climbing and the pub to join us!

Its fair to say we were kept busy for the full hour. We had separate bags for recycling cans (which ellie is going to take to the air ambulance collection) general waste and glass.

We filled several very big bags and had a great time chatting along the way. A real noticeable difference has been made to the local community, well done team!