This evening we met with Amy who gave us lots of lovely fliers to deliver round the Stirch streetz. A massive welcome to our new member Abigail, who joined us from Bristol! We hope to have you back soon!

After a good 45 mins of leafletting we went on a 4k run on the river rea with Laura cycling alongside and Chris taking the opportunity for a walk.

All in all a great time with some much needed refreshments in the pub afterwards!

Three GoodGym volunteers (Amy, Morwenna and Laura) helped set up the Stirchley Community Spring Market.

We helping bring down items from storage in the old swimming bath lockers and put up bunting outside.

The weather held up and it was a lovely day!

On a cold Spring night 6 GoodGymers set out in Stirchley to do a litter pick!

With no run on the agenda the exercise was to walk the streets and sweep up any litter.

Overall in 30 minutes we collected three bags of rubbish and earned a well deserved drink in the pub afterwards.

Special shout out to Richard for being Miriam for the day and bringing the litter pickers and hoops!!

On a cold Winter's night 5 GoodGymers set out in Stirchley to do a litter pick! With no run on the agenda the exercise was to walk the streets and sweep up any litter. Overall in 30 minutes we collected three bags of rubbish and earned a well deserved drink in the pub afterwards.

Tonight the fearless five headed out on our traditional festive run in Bournville taking in the famous Christmas tree! This year however it was quite frankly disgusting weather! Very heavy rain and squelchy feet didn't stop us doing a 6km run around Bournville culminating in the famous tree.

Well done to John for his longest run!

We also took in the neighbourhood lights and the air ambulance tree which is up every year to raise money.

Well deserved pints and burgers were needed as we evaporated.

We had a lovely time delivering leaflets to support a community event in Stirchley. Our wonderful Amy is now on the comittee for Stirchley Community Market, volunteering her time to organise the market. It is on the 7th December and you can sign up to volunteer!

Special well done to Eve and Liam who ran around 5k to get to the task!

We did several streets, Amy and Chris did loads of businesses too. Afterwards we all went to the pub for well deserved drinks!

Tonight GG Brum had the Euros get together, but first we had some litter picking to do.

Yep, we headed to the canal towpath for the first time in months! Therefore it goes without saying there was quite a bit of litter!

Steve, James and Jonny were armed with the litter pickers and Laura and Morwenna were ready with the bags. Once they were full we headed for a run back along the canal with all of us noticing what a difference we had made in a short space of time :)

Once back at 1000 Trades we headed upstairs to watch the football. The first half was pretty turgid stuff to say the least! It did improve a little in the 2nd half, but hardly great!

Oh well, the draw seems to have opened up for England with Spain, Germany, France and Portugal being on the other side to England, but they'll definitely have to improve if they want to get to the final!

Is it coming home?? I'll let you decide..........

On a beautifully sunny Sunday morning, we were allowed access to a secret garden: Edgbaston Guinea Gardens Allotments.

As the last remaining example of groups of detached rented gardens which once encircled 18th century Birmingham, this magical green space is a really special part of Birmingham's history. Every garden is private – with many hidden behind mysterious doors – and each previously had a bothy where gardeners could have a cuppa and a rest.

New GoodGymer Steve walked from Moseley, while Laura ran from Stirchley and I strolled over from Cannon Hill Park, meaning everyone was nicely warmed up to join the gardening party. One of the allotments is used by the Garden Club at the nearby Edgbaston High School for Girls, where the pupils learn about horticulture and develop woodworking skills – and of course eat the fruits of their labour.

Sabreena and Steve from the allotments put us to work transferring matured compost into sacks ready to use on the Edgbaston High School plot, via sieves to remove sticks and other materials. It was a hard job that would have taken one person most of a day, but between the three of us we made a sizeable dent in a couple of hours. Meanwhile, the school pupils, parents and teachers got stuck in on the vegetable plots.

After refreshments and cakes (made by the talented pupils) in the bothy – reconstructed on the site of the original, after all these one-room huts were demolished in the last century – we managed to fill another sack of compost before finishing up. Thanks to everyone from Guinea Gardens for having us!

Tonight GoodGym Brum completed a trio of missions! Firstly we cleaned up at Dad's Lane/Pineapple House...are you ready for this list? We cleaned all the kitchen cabinets, the skirting boards, the walls, the chairs, the toys...we swept and scrubbed. It wasn't long before we got a call from BBC Radio WM who had been in touch earlier that day to arrange a chat, it felt so good telling them about what we do at GoodGym Brum!

After this we went on a run delivering leaflets for Moseley In Bloom. Thank you so much to Liam for arranging this, and prepping a wonderful run in the sun going from community notice board to notice board!

What a wonderful trio of good deeds! We headed back to the pub to enjoy the snacks Sarah @ Dad's Lane/Pineapple House had prepared for us, and even enjoyed a drink with the head honcho Steve down at the pub!

On an unexpectedly rainy eve we headed out on a 5km run and delivered an entire roads worth of leaflets for Change Kitchen.

An adorable cat followed me and Morwenna down the road 🥰

It was quite dark and rainy so we didn't have time for a photo! We'll be out again to deliver more leaflets next time.