Today at Foodcycle, Luton Goodgymers flexed by covering all 4 of the roles that need covering this week. Gill led the way, collecting food surplus from a local supermarket. Which I used to help the kitchen team to create a fantastic 3 course meal for over 30 guests. Samantha was next to join the ranks as she took on the pot washing task in her extremely efficient way whilst also helping to take the shells of several eggs. Darshini arrived to support the hosting team and did a fantastic job as the team were a little short of volunteers this evening. Tonights menu had an Egg Salad starter, main of vegetable curry with onion rice and naan, and dessert was fruit salad and a selection of cake. Everyone from the Goodgym team helped in different ways this evening showing again the positive impact Luton Goodgym have on our town. Fantastic job today team l, you smashed it

On this warm and sunny Sunday morning a team of three from GoodGym joined a couple of local residents and Kevin from ABCD to tackle an overgrown alleyway connecting Montrose Avenue to Carlton Crescent.

The alleyway was closing up with the ivy on the fences closing in and the weeds in the sides growing unchecked. But with an hour's effort from the collective of volunteers, spurred on by the thanks of passing residents, we soon got it all cleared clean with a transformed view through to the other end.

Building connection meeting new people growing stronger Inside and out improving fitness while making real difference

6 of the Luton Goodgym faithful got stuck in at the last of 6 cooking sessions at the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara, where the Aunties at the temple were holding cooking classes with other community organisations. Our troops got stuck in with the washing up as huge pans were coming from the stove to the sinks. Others were helping to make roti and Cooke the curry. As always Goodgymers are made to feel at home at the temple with a sample of the delights cooked that evening. Everyone enjoyed themselves and we made friends with the Someries Rotary Club, an organisation we may be able to collaborate with in the future. Great work on this task 👏 👍🏻 👌

This evening 5 Luton Goodgymers supported the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat temple with the 5 instalment of their cooking classes, helping the Gudwara to bring communities together and teach new friends, new skills. There was lots of cooking, scrubbing, serving, tidying and a little bit of community interaction as we tasted the delights that were prepared. Well done team, great effort as ever 👏 👍🏻 👌 💪

Another fun afternoon and evening at FoodCycle today - and it was Faith's first time helping at this project. We hope she enjoyed the session as much as the three regulars did.

Gill was on the early shift as she had helped with the food collection and was on hand to open up the hall and get things started. With lots of part baked bread and frozen pastry she started on prepping the crostini for some crispy bruschetta and then got busy rolling out the pastry for 5 large quiches.

Next on the scene was Martin, who joined in the kitchen team alongside the other FoodCycle regulars and there was soon a hive of industry to prepare the tomatoes and salad for the starter, and the roasted veg for the couscous accompaniment to the quiche.

Omar, who had answered a late call for additional volunteers to host the session arrived, and was a whiz at serving the volunteers with pre-service fruit snacks before getting joining the other hosts with serving our guests and clearing up afterwards.

Finally, Faith arrived and was soon elbow deep in a sink full of suds as she had offered to take on the vital role of pot washer today, and was an absolute godsend as she cleaned up the cooking posts and all the dishes and cutlery from the meal. "It was my first time at FoodCycle and I really enjoyed it." she said.

There was lots of positive feedback again from the guests who really enjoyed the meal. Well done team. Another fabulous meal.