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! 🙌

Seven Goodgymers walked, cycled and swam our way to Coffee Tots at The Wave to do the opposite of what we did in December - take down all of the Christmas decorations - just in time for twelfth night!

We made swift progress with the decorations, trying to make sure the lights don't get tangled, wrapping up the stockings and carefully packing away the Christmas village until December 2026. After we finished, we had time for a new year catch up and enjoyed some yummy snacks cooked by Nigel, roasties, sausage rolls and parsnip and apple soup!

Same time next week?