Six GoodGymers helped out at the Big Read at Maidenhead Library. New GoodGymers Holly and James braved the cold and welcomed families to the event by giving out event programmes and directing them to the many activities. Tessa helped in the children's corner, answered lots of questions and gave out stickers. Roberta, Christine and Angela helped out with craft activities and encouraged families to enter the treasure hunt and other competitions. The highlight of the session was watching Maidenhead football team join in a session with poet Simon Mole!

We helped the lovely charity Alexander Devine get set for their big spring sale of chocolate stuffed little knitted chicks. The chicks, and some rabbits, llamas, hedgehogs, beetles, and a few other woodland creatures needed tagging.

So we set up a production line of tag builders, taggers and cutters. That lasted all of 5 mins! Soon we had multiple activities happening across the large table, but the speed of work was impressive!

A dozen pair of hands = 500 chicks tagged. Don't we love it when the numbers are so neat!

We finished off with some delicious birthday cupcakes made by our own baker extraordinaire Rachel to celebrate GGWM's 6th birthday. Chatter, laughter, hard work, competition and cake - a perfect GG mission!

Eleven crafty Goodgymers gathered at the Community centre to create colourful bunting. First they carefully drew around the templates to make six triangles on each felt sheet. Next they cut out the triangles and arranged them into a coloured sequence. Finally they were stuck on string in a repeating pattern. The bunting looked amazing and will help decorate the library for Maidenhead's Big Read on 7th and 8th of March.