A muggy Tuesday evening had us once again at the Kathy Dolan Centre, clearing the alley that loops around the pitch of brambles and collected dirt.

Massive props to Beth and Amy, whose collected efforts made the first part of the alleyway an alleyway to be proud of, not just deweeding but scraping the dirt off the floor.

Meanwhile, myself and Matteo tackled the bramble jungle that had grown up around the back. Whilst the job was not yet done, we made a good dent in their growth; nothing a return journey wouldn't fix!

Thanks to everyone for coming and for everyone's support!

Well done to everyone who came on Tuesday to help us tidy up a local community centre.

After some fumbling with the keys, we gained access to the football pitch and started our sweeping up, ripping up the weeds and odd and ends that had started to infest the corners.

We also welcomed Amy, who was part of Goodgym Liverpool before moving back down to London, hopefully see you again soon!

Thanks to everyone who attended, I'm sure we made a real difference for when the kids make use of this pitch throughout the summer!

This weekend saw another GoodGym visit to the De La Salle School gardening project. The project is aiming to provide training in horticulture and hospitality to pupils and other local young people who might otherwise struggle to gain qualifications, so improving their skills and employment prospects. There's a lot to be done to establish a kitchen garden from scratch, and our two teams of six set to work to shift a huge amount of topsoil for four large vegetable beds, to dig large planting holes (in very stony ground), to plant twelve assorted fruit trees (no Rowan trees though!) in them which will form the framework for the main garden area, and to do some all-important watering of the newly planted trees and bushes. The early team also did a huge amount of litter=picking of the area behind the polytunnels. Welcome to Emily who made this her first GoodGym good deed - we hope to see you again soon! It was also great to see Amy again who has also recruited yet another uni mate Tafwauli into joining GoodGym!

I really should be used to it by now, but I'm always amazed at how much half-a-dozen people can achieve in just an hour or so by working together - such is the power of GoodGym!