We are OhSo Sorry to say goodbye to Nipun!

Just about a year ago Nipun moved to Brighton and rightly identified Goodgym as a great way to get to know people, get fit, do good and discover the wonderful city we live in. 36 good deeds and 12 months later, Nipun has become a much loved part of Brighton Goodgym, even being promoted to the dizzy heights of ‘social secretary’. And in her final task in the role she organised her own leaving do where we broke all records with an amazing 18 people staying on to say farewell. Nipun’s career as social secretary has not been entirely plain sailing. Although she does seem to have a great skill of seeking out Brighton’s coolest places to eat and drink she also seems to have an uncanny ability to book places where the chef has already gone home! So tonight 'Ohso Social’ were ‘OhSo sorry’ they missed our booking and sent the chef home early, but it didn’t put any dampers on the evening as we went somewhere else, forgotten the name already!

But before all the social stuff we were delighted to be joined by Laura and Julian for the first time, and also to break 20 good deeders for the first time since early January. Cllr David Gibson was well prepared and deployed most of the group around the ward of Hanover & Elm Grove to paint and spray over graffiti on walls, bins & junction boxes. Our previous painting tasks have been incredibly effective at reducing the amount of scribbling in the area so mostly it was applying the top coat to our previous efforts.

Meanwhile the rest of the group were tasked with litter picking and weeding the planted area in front of the Percy Wagner Almshouses. Again we have made a huge difference here over the year or so we have been coming with the amount of litter greatly reduced so our main effort was on tackling the jungle of bindweed. We pulled the stuff out by the arm full hopefully giving the shrubs underneath a chance to breathe and grow strong through the summer.

Tonight's fitness session took a bit of explaining but we got there in the end! An assembly line of partnered exercises using each other to jump over, dip from and provide resistance.

Just a reminder about The Weakest Link next Wednesday. Full details here, I highly recommend it as a fun night of running and mingling with Brighton’s runners.

So farewell Nipun, it's been great to have you and your positive energy around for the last year. Good luck with your new job and all the best with Goodgym Richmond. Hopefully we'll see you at a social event or race before too long. Oh and anyone want to be our new Social Secretary??!!