Martin Rogers

This week we'll be heading to Stopsley, where the Baptist Church's GreenHouse (Not an actual greenhouse!) needs a lick of paint to freshen it up.

The office space here is used by GreenHouse Mentoring to help young people get a decent start in life as well as other community focused groups.

The building is undergoing a big change this winter to introduce a cafe and we'll help it through to an exciting, fresh, clean new start in the new year when it will really become a vibrant community hub.

You may get painty so don't wear anything you'd be horrified to get paint on! Paint splatters on your GoodGym shirt are essentially distinguished service medals!

The team at Penrose Roots to Recovery really appreciated our first visit and there's still plenty to do there so we are heading back.

Much like last time we will head down and finish off preparing the beds. There's hedges that need trimming and I'm sure plenty more to do as well.

On the way back we will stop for a bit of fitness in Wardown park.

We'll have a group doing a walk-jog to the task if you aren't sure you will be able to run the whole way, you can jog as much as you're able and walk as much as you need to.

The Five Springs area of Leagrave Park is in need of a bit of attention, so we're going to help our very own Martin and his Friends of Leagrave Park reclaim a patch from an invasion of the brambles.

Just by the Five Springs carpark there's an information board but you wouldn't know it, it's been completely covered by brambles! The task is to cut this back to the hedgerow and reveal the info board that lies beneath.

With a few of us we can make quick work of this job and make this entrance to the park much more welcoming and informative!

The river through Manor park was recently re-naturalised from its former concrete banks. While nature gets itself re-established we're going to give it a guiding hand and remove the undesirable plants that have moved in under the instruction of Trevor the council's ecologist.

Expect nettles, long sleeves will be a good idea!

Everyone loves a Parkrun, but who really warms up properly? GoodGymmers do!

We'll meet up at the boathouse by the lake before the race and shake off the sleep and wake up our muscles ready to take on the Parkrun in peak performance.

If you've never been to a parkrun before you'll need to register on the parkrun website and get your barcode, bring it to the run otherwise your time won't be recorded!

This week we'll be heading off to Wigmore to help in a a bulb planting campaign to inject some colour into the parks and grass verges around Wigmore.

We'll be running the 4km distance to the grass verges outside the Tui building, where local volunteer Peter will kit us out with bulbs and tools, and we'll pop as many in the ground as we can before we head back into town.