Seven GoodGymers congregated at Watermans Park in Brentford with one mission: to transform the park into the hottest music venue in town for the Friends of Watermans Park’s Summer Bandstand Concert.

This free community event brings together local musicians, singers and DJs every saturday in July, and before the first note could be played, there was plenty of behind-the-scenes Goodgym helping hands to make it all happen.

Sevan and Maxime decided there is no such thing as too much bunting. Fence? Decorated. Another fence? Decorated. Pagoda? Obviously decorated.

Meanwhile, Kash somehow managed to squeeze a workout in while decorating yet more bunting on yet another pagoda.

Breda, Michelle, Kymm and Jacqui became unexpected experts in the delicate art of gazebo construction. Thanks to a combination of shifting plans, strategic repositioning and the occasional “mind your fingers”, they successfully assembled gazebos… not once… not twice… but three times! If there's such a thing as a world gazebo assembly championships they would stand every chance of making it through to the knockout stages.

The goodgym crew made such quick work of set up this week that it meant more time for ice lollies before the concert got underway. No goodgymers performed this week, so the local community may have missed out on pitch perfect singing from the backing singers in red t shirts

On Friday night, Brenda Jacqui and I went to meet Hannah at Mint Street Park to help set up for the festival which was happening the next day. The task was to pick up some tables and chairs from Trinity square near by, and wheel them back to the park. This took two trips in the heatwave heat.

Duckling watch for Goodgymers - a quacking good mission. Goodgymers swapped their running shoes to ducking views. Duck, duck and done.

Paul watched two broods - one an experienced mother who was surrogate to a dozen mallard ducklings. She really struggled and lost all but three, but was brilliant with those three, perhaps slightly over protective. They are all now grown up and part of a bigger group of adolescent mallards.

The other group was a shambles. There were seven ducklings. The male disappeared in week two and for several weeks, I saw no more than one or two at a time and never with the mother. I assumed the worst. But last week I saw the mother with five of them and yesterday with seven! She’s grown into the role!

Jacqui struggled to find any mallard ducklings but persevered and eventually, after numerous visits to lakes, ponds and rivers, found a family.

Sally watched 3 ducklings who were abandoned at around 2-3 weeks old and despite the odds being stacked against them with predators incl american mink, foxes and herons in the area, they are still going strong 9 weeks later and now feel like part of the family. Another group didnt fare so well and all 4 ducklings disappeared over a few days.

We were very pleased to be back here!

Our first task was to rescue a bench that had been gnawed by an over-enthusiastic resident; after a bit of sanding and a lick of paint it was looking almost as good as new!

We also fought the very thorny brambles and weeds on the main pathway. This involved multiple wheelbarrow trips to the composting area where we discovered large sand dunes.

After parkrun, we gave Great Salterns a bit of a clean up.

We welcomed Goodgym tourist Jacqui from Barnet and Rebecca's friend also called Rebecca from Southampton.

Among the usual finds, we found a particularly memorable find: part of a man's pants... always keeping things classy on a Goodgym task! On a more tasteful note, we also found a frisbee still in good shape, so we hung it on a low branch as a lucky gift for a passing dog!

This special and hardy group made a real difference on Wednesday!

Battling the rain and chill, they dropped their usual dose of altruistic magic off at the communal garden in Barnes House Estate!

Thank you, everyone!