Blooming 'eck

A beautiful day in Bournemouth enticed 16 of us out on World Running Day to celebrate Volunteers Week!

We welcomed Esther who has run with GoodGym before in York, and is now studying at Bournemouth Uni. We hope to see a lot more of you from now on Esther!

Millie was also nice enough to bring Michele and Mathias along and they did great. Got involved and chatting to people straight away. Just how it's supposed to be.

As our task was very close we extended our run a little and headed to the beach front to dodge all the people going for a walk...Our route back towards the school happened to take us up the Harvester steps of pain....and we all managed to get up them and ruin a couple's photo shoot in the process by repeating it a few times!

It was really warm and we had made up for the short run with increasing the intensity and were happy to make our way to the school. The children had made some great progress with planting certain section up with herbs and adding colour. It looked great compared to last time were there.

We did some weeding,some with gloves, some without, everybody was beavering away!! Laura and Miffy painted the top of some logs a nice red colour, John and Neil loaded up a wheelbarrow with mulch to spread around the flower beds and really we could be hired to work in Japanese gardens, we're that good. We even had time to pose by the basketball courts and look super cool whilst doing it!

Well done to John for running the Half Marathon in Poole last weekend...on a very hot day, and beating his previous PB by 6 minutes! Machine!!!

You guys are great! We'll be back in a couple weeks to finish off the job before the school is visited for their entry to the Bournemouth in Bloom competition. Next week we are visiting the Foodbank at their new location, so very exciting!! Come along!!