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!