38 very hardy young people splashing around 2k at Waterloo Park junior Parkrun while us Volunteers battled the elements. So worth it to see them enjoying the great outdoors

Tonight 7 GoodGymer's ran or cycled 6km to support John Grooms Court, a residential home for adults with physical and intellectual disabilities.

The task was to paint the outdoor decking and fences, an area that had been neglected but is the only outdoor space available to the residents.

We were given a large pot of 'Duck's back' paint (hence the pun) and shared it out between us to cover as much of the area as possible.

The weather wasn't kind to us - low temperatures & increasing rain! But we stuck to the task until the paint was gone.. then it really was time to say goodbye, dry off and warm up!

Amazing effort team.

Post Parkrun (of course) 3 GoodGymer's cycled over to Catton Grove allotments, in quite frankly, pretty grim weather !

We met the lovely Karen on site and she explained we were there to help clear a large overgrown allotment patch. As its going to be a community garden.

Armed with loppers we set to work earnestly. The rain relented through the morning and we made good progress clearing the site of potential hazards, chatting with Matt a friendly local volunteer who taught us all about competitive Scrabble!

At midday we had a lovely break of coffee and jaffa cakes and John kindly donated us some allotment produce !

Jonathan and I also got an allotment tour and got shown a good dead hedge!

Well done everyone.

I marshalled at Eaton Junior Parkrun on a very wet morning. Despite that quite a few turned out to run. Some of the smaller runners were really enjoying splashing through the many puddles.

Tonight 12 GoodGymer's ran or cycled 6km to Norwich Foodbank to help pack donations.

It was a cold night so everyone kept busy by splitting into groups to form a GoodGym production line - beginning with unpacking boxes of mash & juice, placing the items in plastic crates, taking the crates to be weighed before piling up crates in a corner of the warehouse.

At the same time another group broke down the left over plastic and cardboard, and pushed it on trolley to the recycling area.

In the midst of it all we had Joshua attending his 1st Good Deed, and founding member Steven celebrating his 400th with a special balloon!!

After 45 minutes the task was complete so we headed out into the cold to return home.

Thanks Woody for the pun!

Today 7 GoodGymers ran 4km to join local residents and volunteers at Edmund Bacon Close.

The venue had been supplied with tools, bulbs and trees to be planted including Acers, Prurius, Viburnham and Jasmine by local community group Green Hearts. Thankfully the rain had stopped but the ground was soft so we got to work digging and planting in different areas of the grounds.

After an hour we had planted the trees and clusters of daffodills, snowdrops, bluebells and crocus.

We love forward to returning in the spring to see what has grown!