Seven Goodgymmers, Caprice, Millie, Sophie, Eleanor, Janet, Keith and Lea joined Ruth inside St Augustin’s church tonight. The planned work outside wasn’t going to happen with buckets (of rain) coming down! No washing walls this time but scraping pillars… the peeling paint as well as salt crystals needed to be removed, so that the pillars will dry out better. Then they can be painted at a later stage. Lots of scraping meant lots of dust…. James to the rescue. Eh what? James could unfortunately not make it, so when Eleanor heard Lea say: “Well done James”, she got a bit confused. Turned out Lea was praising Henry’s cousin James, also in the hoovering business! Eh, right 🤔🤣! And then Caprice and James joined forces to attack more dust… Anyway, with dust collected as well as spiders webs, lots of leaves and a pine cone (?), but no mice running around this time, the church and Ruth are happily awaiting our return as there is lots more to do for the hardworking Goodgymmers group!! Thanks everyone for your hard work.

This was mission #2 in helping Sendisass4bcp distribute their flyers to schools and GPs in the local area. Daryl, Eleanor, Chloe and Caprice didn't let the rain put them off. They met at King's Park and then hit the streets. This was an epic running mission where the GoodGymers ran a total of 10K whilst weaving through the streets of Pokesdown and Southbourne. They even managed to squeeze in a mini Graffiti tour finishing on the mighty Boscombe Owl 🦉 Once all the locations had been delivered to the group ran back to King's Park.

This Thursday Caprice helped our good friend Kelly at 'We Do Ethical' at this weeks Outreach in Bournemouth. Kelly for the past four years has been providing the homeless with a constant supply of toiletries, from shampoo to Bamboo Toothbrushes. Caprice and Kelly firstly did a shop to stock up on supplies. They then made their way to The Bournemouth Outreach Project and joined Hope For Food in supporting Bournemouth's homeless. This week 'We Do Ethical' had some very special helpers to hand, Frankie and Boris, Kelly's little fur-family. They really loved saying hi to everyone. It was busy at the Outreach, they were cleared out of wet wipes, body spray and shaving foam and everyone was loving the razors. Some of the boxes were almost empty at the end of the session. I'm sure it was Frankie and Boris who did all the hard work!!

Tonight's session was to help our friends at Hope Housing. Daryl and Caprice ran to the session where they were joined by Milly, Sophie, Emma and Eleanor. With summer just around the corner it was time for their charity shop to swap from winter stock to summer collection. The group got to work sorting bags of donations, placing summer clothing into their labeled box. The group agreed it was a very satisfying task, seeing the boxes fill in no time at all. Women's tops and dresses seemed to be the most popular donation. Once all the bags were distributed between the large plastic boxes the GoodGymers said their goodbyes. Hope Housing have asked for our help with some gardening and some point so watch this space for more details!