What a day to be stuck indoors. The sun was shining and it was so inviting to be outside, but the three of us had made a commitment to help with the jobs fair. After helping get the furniture laid out we found a good excuse to get outside by offering to help exhibitors get there resources to the centre from the cars. After that we were only too haply to lurk in the sunshine while approaching customers leaving the event to ask them to complete the feedback surveys. It was lovely to catch up with some familiar faces from the council and to help with closing down the event too. And great to bump into Faith, one of our group, and hear the news of her baby who she is expecting in July! Great work Musa and Neill and as always your professionalism and great communication with the attendees was much appreciated by Matt and the LBC team.

Some of Luton Goodgym's finest came out this weekend to support the Friends of Leagrave Park with their monthly litterpick.
The task was made all the more enjoyable with the sun shining 🌞. The team collected the equivalent of 26 bags of rubbish. Great work team 👏 👍🏻 💪 👌 🙌

Just the one Goodgymer at this task but three others from the Friends of Winsdon Hill and Dallow Downs took to the hill and picked until their bags were bulging.

It's been a long slog over the last few months clearing a massive buildup of litter but it feels like we're getting on top of it now and going deeper into the woods to find litter, though there's still plenty left for sure.

It was Earth Day, a day to celebrate nature and consider what we can do to help and protect it.

Our task at the Lea Vale Community Garden was to help get some unruly vegetable beds in order with a good digging over and building some new wooden frames around them. This will allow the gardens users to focus on making contact with nature by growing vegetables in the garden and enjoying the peace of this secluded green space.

As always it was a steep run up to Farley Hill that got our legs pumping hard and burning loads of calories. After the task we did a nice core conditioning workout on the lawn before heading back down the hill.

We had a good team out to support with Parkrun and although it was sunny there was a definite chill in the air. Dani had the auspicious role of funnel manager and di her best to keep Gill and Duncan in check as they tried not to mess up the timekeeping (which Gill failed to do). Sam and Prashant had already set up the course and were ready to take down at the end of the run while Lee had been a motivational marshal - cheering every runner on as they passed his post and making sure all were safe. Great way to start the weekend, team!

4 Goodgymers joined today Gill helped her hubby on food collection but had to dash off to another commitment. Dani joined the cooking team with her well deserved Brighton marathon medal 🏅. Well done 👏👏👏 Neill was busy preparing food parcels and serving food with the hosting team Lucie was on the soup duty

This evening we served 34guests plus takeaways .

On today’s menu was: Starter Carrot 🥣 soup with bread 🍞 Main Chilli , baked potato 🥔 and slaw Dessert Yoghurt fruit salad with 🧁 cakes