It was a pretty cold Monday night task, setting out from Stepney Bank Stables to deliver our own GoodGym Newcastle leaflets around the Shieldfield area of Newcastle. It's been quite a while since we've done this sort of self-promotion!

Onyinye joined us for the very first time! Welcome to GoodGym and well done on your first good deed. Old hands Scott and Richard revisited some familiar streets to help spread the word about GoodGym.

The forecast rain didn't arrive and hopefully we have helped recruit some GoodGymers, so it was a successful evening!

I was the run director at whitley bay junior parkrun on a very windy mother's day! The young runner weren't put of my the strong winds with a quarter of the young runners achieved a person best! A great time was had by all!

On a pleasant Monday evening, three GoodGym litter pickers headed out up Stepney Bank towards New Bridge Street. It's not an area we have litter picked in often and it was certainly needed. The main road into the city centre from Byker, New Bridge Street had mountains of litter, particularly around its bus stops. It's hard to understand how it ends up like this as there are numerous bins around the bus stops.

We had several people stopping to thank us and asking what GoodGym was. We did our best to explain and told people to look us up. If you were one of those people and are reading this, please sign up and come join us on a Monday night soon!

It was a new community mission for us today on a very foggy Sunday morning. The weather didn’t put off six excellent GoodGymers from showing up and busting some grease!

The kitchen definitely wasn’t the worst we’ve ever seen but there was still some TLC needed. The biggest improvement we made today was the fryer – see the pics for the before and after. Louise shifted a serious amount of grease out of that fryer!

Charlotte and Liz paired up to tackle the oven while Katy and Ross tag teamed washing up and hot water distributing. I celebrated my 50th good deed today by Marie Kondo-ing the utensil drawers – everything needs a home. We wrapped up with a quick break for tea, which Liz kindly made for us, before all grabbing a mop and making the floor sparkle!

Thank you to everyone for coming, you make the world a better place! The next community mission is on Tuesday where Katy will be leading a library tidy, sign up here!

The rain may have subsided but it was still a chilly night out there on Westgate road, so a huge thanks to everyone who came along tonight!

It ended up being a super productive night of leaflet delivering! I estimate that we might just have delivered over 1000 leaflets, which is an amazing effort! If you, like I, prefer to count your leaflets in inches - we started with around 8 inches of leaflets and managed to deliver a whole 4.7 inch stack of leaflets, leaving only just over three inches remaining (another day perhaps?)

Doing our best group run impression we tried our hardest to stay together up the monster that is Westgate road before coming to a stop at the Baptist Church, where the FoodCycle kitchen is. We stopped for a photo in front of the church where we had our photos taken by a generous passerby who went to extreme lengths to get the shot just right!

The task owner from FoodCycle had asked us to keep track of where we had been, so we split into team and each team received their own uniquely coloured highlighter which they used to fill in where they had been on the map. It was a busy night with many people out on the streets - we ended up giving a lot of leaflets to people asking what we were up to. I gave many leaflets to a group of boys who wanted to take home an extra leaflet for their parents so they could convince them to go to FoodCycle with them!

We made our way back to the hotel winding through the streets while delivering more leaflets. Dan was there to congratulate us at our return to the Hotel but unfortunately that wasn't enough to earn him a good deed!

Huge thanks again to everyone for coming and battling the cold and the hills just to be nice people!

The rain held off this morning for a sunny session of leaflet delivering. Today, we were delivering leaflets for FoodCycle Monkchester that are offering the community a free meal in Byker every week!

At the meeting point our eye was drawn by a poster outside Harbottle park advertising their volunteering sessions with a picture of Miranda, Paul and Aimee from a previous mission! See the picture above - everyone in Byker has!

Liz achieved her 46th good deed today! We will be seeing her in her black shirt very soon!

We delivered a few hundred leaflets in half an hour and called it a day. We met a few people a long the way who already knew about FoodCycle and even a lady who had delivered the same leaflets we had!

Three more good deed added to the GoodGym Newcastle total which puts us on 1903 in total. 1903 was the year Orville Wright flew an aircraft in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight. But, more importantly, we're about to hit 2000!

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