It was great to welcome Phil and Helen to the GG pack.

Big thanks to Annie for welcoming everyone before dashing to Theatre practice and then the family meal! Busy lady!

We headed down to the start of Gerry's section of the Transpenine Trail to meet her and William and get tooled up ready for litter picking.

We got to it heading out of the city the opposite way to last time. On the whole things were looking fairly clear with some hot spots along the way.

Once done, Gerry talked us through the Fix My Street app and how to report various concerns to the council via the app. Very modern.

Until next time. Happy running! :)

I took advantage of a lovely sunny day when I was going to be passing by the area anyway to fit in a mission for Mrs M. She has dementia and has struggled to take care of her garden since her husband died last year.

She kept apologising for the state, but I assured her I've seen much worse. The main job was mowing the lawn. I also cut a few overhanging branches, weeded between paving, put away tools that had been left out rusting and cleared some rubbish.

A good honest hour's work and Mrs M and her daughter in law were both very grateful ☺️

This week we were spreading the word for our local youth housing charity.

Roundabout have some fantastic fund raising events coming up to help them fund the fantastic work they do, so our task tonight was to help spread the word locally to try and get more people aware of the events and get involved!

We started at our home of The Showroom Cinema and met Mhairi who gave us the low down on the upcoming events.

We spent 5mins or so sorting the leaflets out into easy to deliver stacks and then headed off up to Park Hill where we knew we could get a lot delivered in a small space of time!

Annie had some other engagements but still came down and grabbed leaflets and covered her more local area of:

• East grove Road
• Broomgrove Road
• Clarke grove Road
• Botanical Road
• Dover Road.

And didn't we just, the plan was to try and deliver leaflets to as many flats as possible, but we were out by the time we reached the second floor! Still there was plenty of time for window shopping skyline searching!

We finished off with some view finding over the city skyline before calling it a night.

Until next time, happy running :)

Well this was an interesting one!

We met with Claire the Vicar on site at St Mary's church and got tooled up with spades and ho's to starting the turning over of a piece of land on the graveyard ready for planting of wild flowers.

It was really tough going but we gave it our best and turned over a good section of grass on the site ready for future planting.

St Mary's church behind us was beautifully lit and provided a wonderful backdrop for the evening.

We were visited by a couple of local Bobby's on bikes who at first must have thought we were grave robbers but soon realized we were up to good and not no good.

Until next time, happy running! :)

It was indeed an upward journey from The Showroom this eve, but we got there.

An excellent effort from Monika who had already done a gym class during the day and to Amelia who in her own words normally only runs when she's late for something!

We met Adrian at the task location. Adrian was already hard at work when we arrived, he must have saw us coming as he was cutting down some planter to size.

After saying hello to Angela and co and being offered biscuits we got to work with various tasks including:

• Looping back willow which would be used in various on site tasks
• Moving heavy pots
• More cutting back

Although it was dark and we couldn't see all the grounds it was great to contribute to this space which has so much love put into it for the children and the surrounding community. We'll be back!

Four fantastic GoodGymers ran a short distance to help at Common Thread this evening. We met lovely Fran and Jess inside their building where they were ready and waiting for us. There were already many other volunteers scurrying around inside. We received a quick briefing of our tasks for the night, which included sorting bags of donations into categories, bagging them up, labeling them and taking them to be stored in the cellar. Amelia was given the very special task of designing and making a placard saying Jeans World (a reference to the Wayne's World films). What a fantastic job she did too!

After a solid hour of sifting and sorting we said our goodbyes and headed out into the night.

There was one last thing for us to do before stretching at The Showroom, a set of exercises at the amphitheatre near SHU. Using the concrete seats we did push-ups and tricep dips.

A fun evening was had by all!