On Saturday, seventh of February, I set off to Kersley Village to help out the Coventrians FC. Weather was grim at first, rain pelting down as I made way. Lucky for me, clouds cleared right when I arrived up at the football ground. Beautiful pitches, a bit waterlogged though—some games had been called off! I met up with Jane, John and the friendly dogs, energetic Lillie and Derek a bit older so not quite as spritely as Lillie! We started off with a coffee ☕️😍 before rolling up the sleeves to get stuck in. Today's job helping with the fencing which has taken a few months to do so far. John and I started loading out the fencing ready to be nailed on, and then Paul arrived and we cracked on to get quite a lot done, working well together. Between us three, the fencing job nearly completed and John was planning to finish the gate on Sunday. As well we had the fearless Lillie bounding around non-stop, dropping the ball for you to throw here there and everywhere—it was a joy to see. A good couple of hours work and the first task completed for Coventrians FC.

Fantastic evening at the Vision Hub having another go at Showdown! With our very own Claire currently ranked 2nd in the country — what an achievement!

Everyone had a great time getting involved. We played singles matches as well as a team game that stayed incredibly close from start to finish, with Claire’s team just edging ahead at the very end.

Thank you Chris and Claire for hosting and thanks all for a fun night!

Well done to everyone involved! 3722 Christmas trees collected in total which will be chipped and sent to biomass to create electricity.

The collection raised over £70000 raised which is amazing!

BRILLIANT work everyone x

Myself, James and Esther's team of volunteers joined together on a dryish Sunday morning,to complete several tasks, including digging out a path and laying bark to assist in the drainage. Digging out shrubs and replacing with soil. Lessons in pruning apple tree's 🍎 👌 We had a visit from our local cat 🐈 😻 2 dogs 🐕, plenty of bird song and found a couple of frog's 🐸 resting underneath rubble sacks The session finished off with a chat, hot drinks, 🍵 ☕️ 🫖 🧋 biscuits and cake. Looking forward to returning in February to continue our fruitful work 😀

[ ] Our monthly visit to the carriers of hope , 7 Goodgymers rolled up to Charities of Hope and met Hamed who was there to greet us ! Upstairs. Laura and Lucy armed themselves with baby-grows and tiny socks and teddies ! Crates wedged together like they'd been glued ! Making a racket trying to get them apart !! took some swearing and shoving. Lucy tugs too hard, nearly ends up , on her bum.!! 🤣 [ ] Downstairs was . Me, Jackie, Marcel, Lillian, Nigel stacking shelfs to the max to create some space for more donations we grabbed duvets, camping gear and clothes, got a couple of shelfs reorganised in half an hour ! All sorted for this month !
[ ] Great work everyone 🙌

Nine GoodGymers visited Carriers of Hope,

We joined Steph, Gloria, and Emmanuel to sort through heaps and heaps of donated toys into neat age groups. From dolls to diggers, board games to books – every donation a perfect gift, with some amazing fun toys for the children to choose from!

It was a great turnout, and everyone pitched in to organise and prepare everything, lightening the load for the Carriers of Hope crew. Good work, everyone! 🙌