Our welcome speech this week had lots of news. Including Tom, Catriona & Bex have joined Sarah, Ellie, Justine & Jason on our taskforce. Give them a cheer! A bunch of us are heading to White Star Running on the bank holiday in August along with lots of other goodgymers - will you join us? And the last bit of news was Age UK in Kensington & Chelsea are putting on a football event this Sunday and are looking for volunteers to help out serving drinks and chatting with the older people 12-3pm. More info here.

Our task for the evening was to help at Maystar Estate. It was a 1.5km run for us and we were met there by the lovely Pauline, a Residents Association volunteer who always organises our visit. This time she asked if we could help plant out some plants in the raised beds and around the play area, plus water everywhere throughly. There was a slight hold up when we arrived because the lock on their tool shed had jammed and wouldn’t open. The team started using the few available tools and their hands to start planting, whilst Jason and Catriona worked on the lock. They eventually Catriona it open and then everybody had enough tools. With time to spare at the end, one group weeded the pavement around the garden and another few people filled up the water butts so the garden was easier to water after our visit.

Once we’d finished all the tasked we headed back to base. Catriona and Andrew went a fast, long route via the river and the rest of us went a shorter route one.

Everyone’s reward at the end was a tasty carrot cake at the gym afterward to celebrating Alice and my birthdays and the new recruits to taskforce.

Tasty stuff!

20 wonderful running fans turned up to DO GOOD and GET FIT - running 5.4km in total.

The summer evenings are bringing us bigger numbers lately and on this occasion 4 brand new to GoodGym runners. Welcome Catherine, Leanne, Jade & Lorna - plus Kerri joined us from Newham. We started our night off gathered in the Better gym to chat over the night’s task and session ahead. Bex and Catriona shared their experience of doing one of their first mission at the weekend.

Then we headed off to toward Sun Road to meet Pauline at Maystar Estates. They’d asked us to come back for the next two weeks to help out in their community hall and garden. Our small Goodgym army was tasked with weeding estate flower beds, planting and watering some new plants in the raised garden beds, cleaning the community hall windows and helping out in two older residents gardens.

After our time was up, the sun had come out and we headed back to base via the river, stopping for a group photo(shoot) by Hammersmith Bridge.

Lovely stuff!