Seven lovely GoodGymers made a wonderful difference at Camden's Greenwood Centre :)

Lady Andrea was quick to invite GoodGym to host a stall at St Matthew's community event to celebrate the church's 280th birthday. A lot of people were interested to hear about us, and many took our flyers. I also had a lady from a community organisation asking for our help, so look out for a brand new task on a future Monday night! We also got to sample the buffet, climbed the church tower, listened to a history talk, got a demonstration of the organ, rang the bells and saw the inner workings of the clock

Our only panic came when we emerged from the tower to find our precious GoodGym flag had disappeared! After some detective work, we discovered that Lady Andrea had taken it home for safe keeping. So we got to see the fantastic collection of plants on her balcony!

Great heavens, can you believe it, it's bulb planting time again already!

On Wednesday evening, we were back at our regular haunt, Cecil Sharp House, for our monthly maintenance session.

Our first task was to start getting some new bulbs in the ground, for a bit of extra colour come Spring time. We had a huge bag of daffodil bulbs to plant in all the beds around the front of the building.

As always, we also gave the place a very through sweep and bagged up many fallen leaves to keep the building looking smart for lots of exciting activity they have coming up this autumn!

Lydia did a wonderful job working with our host, Susannah, to replant two big tubs that had been looking very sorry for themselves since the drought. We left the place sparkling, and full of new life!

We were back to one of our regular haunts, Cecil Sharp House, on Wednesday. While their regular gardener is away on a well deserved break, we stepped in to keep everything tidy and well watered for the week.

We split into two groups; Team Watering Can very quickly got stuck in giving the thirsty plants a good drink after so many weeks without rain. This included the greenhouse, and many big planters with new plants around the entrance.

Team Broom were on duty to clear the paths, beds, and lawns of dry leaves. The many weeks of heatwave has bought on an early Autumn for the trees in the garden, which have already started dropping their leaves. While it may not have looked too bad at the start, we quickly gathered about ten very full bags and left the gardens looking a lot neater!

A huge welcome to Maya who joined us for her first GG session - it was wonderful to have you with us :)

Good luck to everyone taking part in the Big Half next weekend - you'll smash it!

New faces at the Strand - Rice to Meet You: Biryani on the Strand. 4 Goodgymers(2 in red and 2 in black) made their way to a busy Strand new Charings Cross. Van unloaded, tables setup, drinks and crisps out ready to be handed out and the most important dish to be handed out: vegetable biryani(freshly cooked). Serving Up Kindness, One Biryani at a Time and in no time the big pot was empty and all the food was handed out. But then Jas brought something extra to go with the rice, crisps and water - brought fresh fruit and biscuits. Then it was time to clean and fold the tables and reload the van. Great work team - Biryani Relief: Powered by GoodGym and Gurseva