It was just Jonny at today's run club and litter pick so he decided to bike to the session and do his run later, but still enjoyed the sunshine whilst picking some litter :)

Amy, Sofeen, Christina and Laura helped set up the Stirchley Community Market on Saturday morning for their spring community day! We even had a lovely visit from Josie and her new arrival to boost morale!

Table were arranged, bunting was put up and posters were hung!

We headed to St. Patrick’s Church on the Dudley Road to meet Nancy, fellow Goodgymer and hosting the evening’s session. The warm welcome was especially appreciated by those of us caught in the horizontal rain and strong winds!

It was great to welcome Thea to Goodgym for the first time and together with Nancy, Amy, Miriam & myself, we all made for a great decluttering team! With a mix of sorting items to be donated, ordering things by theme, and labelling to some beautiful music playing (thanks to Nancy for DJ-ing!) we were all in the zone and soon made a lot of progress. We were all super happy with the corridor now clear and the items nicely boxed up in the porch with full inventories!

And not to forget… lots of recyclables, so we all did the big bin jobs together, cold and dark by this point, but with us all mucking in, it took just a few minutes! We can’t wait to return to St. Patrick’s and continue helping with jobs like this and huge thanks again to Nancy for facilitating. 😊

This morning Narendra joined the Friends of Perry Common Meadow for their monthly litter pick.

It was a lovely morning with lots of litter picked and then Narendra ran a nice 2k in the sunshine :)

On quite a dreary but dry Tuesday evening the fab 4 headed to Stirchley to deliver leaflets and inform the locals of the fab free community event!

After following Amy's instructions Laura, Rich and I completed a 4k run.

Big catch ups, high on community spirit and adding miles to the tally ✅️✅️✅️ Excellent effort and well done all!

Tonight we welcomed Hannah to GoodGym for first time and we also had Joanne come along who was visiting from GG Exeter.

Four of the group ran to the task from the Good Intent and the others met us at the session. Laura warmly greeted us and it was on with the task.

We had to fill wooden frames with compost then cover the area around them with woodchipping, hence the pun thought up by James. Well actually we didn't just 'chip away' at the task in the end, we completed the whole thing! It was a really great job done which Laura more than appreciated :)

Once done it was time for a group photo then the group scattered, some running and some walking.