This week, GoodGym Brighton returned for our annual visit to the Brighton Youth Centre to help them prepare for B'fest, continuing our commitment to youth-led creativity, collaboration, and cultural expression across the city.

Yesterday’s fast and furious GoodGym session saw 10 GoodGymers bring plenty of energy and joy to the festival prep. We moved panels, heavy poles, and bamboo canes, stacked up seating, and weeded the yard to get everything looking tidy and ready for the young crowds visiting the venue soon.

We always love visiting the Brighton Youth Centre. As one of Brighton & Hove’s longest-running and most popular youth services, it helps young people thrive through everything from skateboarding and stand-up comedy to dance, D&D, street art, radio, music, and theatre. Run by and for young people aged 13–19, B'fest is the ultimate Brighton Youth Arts Festival. The doors open this Saturday 24th October and run until the 30th of October during half-term, bringing together young creatives from across the South East.

GoodGym is so inspired by what you do! We left the building full of good vibes and are ready to spread the word through leafleting.

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Another mild evening greeted nine GoodGym Brighton runners as they returned to action. This time, we visited the Change Grow Live (CGL) Brighton and Hove Recovery Service at Richmond House, which offers a safe, non-judgemental space for drug and alcohol recovery. Our host, Rita, has been instrumental in creating a green oasis here, and GoodGym was ready to lend a helping hand.

This Tuesday’s mission was to tackle the overgrown bushes in the front parking area. Armed with loppers and GoodGym-hand pruners 😊, we got to work cutting down top branches and pruning them back. To speed things up, we formed an efficient GoodGym "human chain," passing the green garden waste down the line. We were even illuminated by professional studio LED lights—usually used by CGL for video and photography—making it look like a live-streamed production of doing good and getting fit!

After sweeping up the final leaves, Rita invited us to the opening of the "Three Frames" (Object. Person. Place.) photography exhibition. Organized by CGL as part of Photo Fringe 2026, it runs every Saturday in October at Richmond House. The exhibition showcases powerful work produced entirely by service users exploring their personal recovery stories.

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From our occasional meeting point at the Peace Statue, it was a short and sweet 300m trek for seven Brightonian GoodGymers to Waterloo Street Community Garden, including newbie Chris - welcome!

Once there, we got stuck into some enthusiastic bulb planting, putting down the groundwork now for a colourful spring display.

We had a friendly black cat keeping a close eye on proceedings. But further investigation revealed that said cat is the reason the garden doesn’t have any bird feeders: our feline friend enjoys playing with them (the local birds, that is, not the feeding devices).

With all the bulbs planted across big pots, little pots, round pots and long pots, it was time to head to nearby Bottoms Rest for a well-earned drink, post-run recovery and a chit chat.

What a purr-fect evening.