On a muggy Sheffield eve the GG SHF team assembled at The Showroom Cinema for another group run.

It was great to welcome Shahram who joined us fresh from the Future Leaders session in Manchester and was full of enthusiasm on his first GG SHF run! We hope to see more of you Shahram.

After quick intros we headed off to meet Karen of Pitsmoor Pickers and get tooled up!

I think our numbers were a shock to Karen and we even had too many people for the pickers she had so some of us got gloved up and picked up the bigger bits.

Cans were collected for future weighing in and everything else was bagged up and/or moved to a nearby public bin ready for collection by the council after Karen had reported it to them.

Adrian even found a knife which was carefully moved and reported to Police by Karen and has now been collected by Police to be destroyed.

It was a good haul and a number of us headed into The Showroom for drinks and bites to eat before heading home.

A good job by all and thanks to everyone for coming out.

Hope to see you all on the next one. Happy running :)

We brought a real CAN do attitude to our task last night.

It was an uphill journey with some real unique city sites along the way!

On a hot and humid Sheffield eve some sensible GG folk decided to meet us at the task due to the hills, heat, injury or other and the rest of us slogged it up the hill from The Showroom to Arbourthorne primary school to meet Angela at this fantastic garden space used at the school.

The order of the eve was all about watering the trees and plants on site as everything was sooooo dry!

It was a great task with a very definitive aim of getting as much water onto the plants as possible in the time we had. We used watering cans and water harvesting tanks as well as hoses to get as much water into the plants as possible as they were looking very dry.

We were rewarded in our efforts by Angela who provided biscuits and water at the end before we headed back to The Showroom for a stretch off. Celine even went blackberry picking on her way home!

Until next week, happy running :)

💥 GOODGYM FUTURE LEADER NORTHERN COHORT LAUNCHES

After a brilliant Future Leader southern cohort launch last month in London, this month was the exciting launch of the Future Leader northern cohort in Manchester.

Future Leaders are young people that will be building leadership skills and care about their community, fitness and social impact - so amazing to have you all join!

To launch the Northern cohort of Future Leader we supported May from Plant MCR with the task to remove some stubborn overgrown weeds from the NOMA garden to ensure the rosemary plants, golden privet and cotton lavender can thrive. This contributed to a larger planting project Plant MCR will be doing in the autumn.

🌿 What even is a weed anyway?!
A weed is simply any plant growing where it is not wanted - there were A LOT of these.

Weeds are typically resilient, fast-spreading plants that compete with flowers or vegetables for space, water, sunlight, and nutrients.

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🏃🚶 How we got there
Denzel led a group of runners on a loop of roughly 1.3km with Jack leading the group of walkers, with photographer Ahmani capturing some brilliant shots of our active travel and task (excited to see the photos!).

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🤩 May: "The fastest bed I've ever seen cleared by a group of volunteers"
May was impressed with the groups speedy efforts at removing all the weeds (check those before and afters!) and said it was the fastest bed she'd ever seen cleared by a group of volunteers, we'll take that.

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🙌 Thank you Jane!
We also had a very special guest speaker - we are so appreciative of Jane Dennison, Founder and CEO of MileShy Club who came in to share her inspiring story and provide some really useful insights and advice on the future of community and sport. Thank you so much for coming!

❤ Why this is so important
We supported Plant Co-operative CIC - a multi award-winning not-for-profit urban gardening collective formed in the spring of 2021. They specialise in transforming and managing public spaces in Manchester, bringing the community together through gardening.

They showcase the benefits that can be shared by all involved in community gardening, increased biodiversity, improved social connection and mental health, and ultimately creating a city of gardeners helping to create and maintain more public green spaces.

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👏 Good deeds galore

Huge well done and congrats on your 1st, speedy good deed Muhammad, Nour, Jasmine, Maya, Polly, Shahram, Archer, Evgeniia, Theo, Kaichao and Megan.

Congrats to Amelia on your 17th good deed!

Such great work everyone 🙌🙌🙌

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Both Southern and Northern Future Leader cohorts are now LAUNCHED - this so exciting and it was so great to meet you all in London and Manchester - I'm already inspired by your energy, thoughts and ideas and so excited to see what you all make happen.

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Final thank you to Altogether Collective for hosting us for the day.

We welcome Ernest to our Goodgym group. thank you all for attending. It was fairly a hot day but 7 of us ran from The Showroom Cinema to Union Street, to Common Threads We were made very welcome with orange squash and loads if fruits too. Jess gave us a briefing and explained our tasks. We were all impressed with the 'Money Plants' at the entrance and a lovely photo was taken. We worked in pairs sorting from Baby clothes to adults and placing them in appropriate signage bags . There was also a 'Sports Bag' and we were given first choice to take what we want Not everyone is as lucky as Michelle who managed some lively sporty stuff for herself . We were also given bananas, water melons, plums and other treats. Thank you for your generous amount of treats. All in all the task was carried out with the help of other volunteers too.