On a cooler sunny evening, 7 GoodGymer's ran, walked or cycled to Douro Place.

This small green space is managed by Grapes Hill Community Garden, and we were met by 3 of their members providing tools and instructions.

The area had become overgrown with thistles recently, and weeds spreading out over pavement. So our first task was pulling it all out, cutting back the grass and edging. When 2 large sacks were filled, we tended to the shrubs and hollyhocks that have thrived here. After more planting and litter picking, the hour was up - it was great to see the difference we made!

Well done team!

Elizabeth, Stephen and Master Reed arrived at the task to find ourselves locked out! A Goodgymer never gives up, after wondering if we could sent Reed the younger over the fence, we received the code for the gate. Flyers found we set off together to find some letter box’s . A solid hour of leafleting and we headed back to Grapes Hill. Thank you Master Reed for helping Dad and I tonight you were a big help.

Steven, Elizabeth, Mark and Jess delivered several hundred leaflets for Grapes Hill Community Garden ahead of their garden event.

As always, Elizabeth was on the hunt for (door) knockers haha.

Jonathan, Melanie, Penny and I met Rosie at the Grapes Hill Community Garden to pick up leaflets to drop round to the local residents. We managed to (mostly!) dodge the rain, and got lots of leaflets delivered to people letting them know about the webinars the garden are running.

The community garden is such a great place for local residents and I hope we'll be able to go back to help them soon!

6 GoodGymers visited Grapes Hill Community Garden, the first organisation we ever visted over 3 years ago on our first group run.

The main task was to create some stepping stones what will create a new path to attract more families and young people to the garden.

A good start was that none of us new how to mix cement haha, but luckily Jo, the gardener roughly knew the sand to cement ration, so we gave it a whirl!

We all took it in turns to mix some up, while Elizabeth and Penny also did a bit of sweeping.

Once it was mixed and poured into containers to set, it was then our job to decorate them with pebbles, shells etc. before they set. Penny did a wonderful job in creating a 'GoodGym' stepping stone to leave our mark.

We will return again to place them in the ground.

On a cold evening in Norwich, Grapes Hill Community Garden required the help of brave volunteers to distribute leaflets to local residents and promote an upcoming 'Nature in the Garden' event. It was important to promote the event soon with it taking place in nine days. Who would be brave enough to accept this challenge? Two Goodgymers rose to the challenge... Step forward Jonathan and Kathryn.

Rosie was there to greet the two Goodgymers. Whilst waiting to see if any other Goodgymers were joining, we were lucky to be given an intimate tour of the garden. Rosie shared her raised bed with us, proudly showing off her tomatoes and butternut squash. Rosie was also kind enough to offer raspberries as well as any other fruits in the garden for the two Goodgymers to take with them on their journey/run back home. One highlight of the tour was being shown an unusual plant in the garden, otherwise known by the nickname of 'Monkey Butt'. It was easy to see why it was given that name by it's appearance.

With the tour over, Kathryn was keen to crack on with the task, and with that we were given the flyers and were off! Tactics were discussed to tackle the task, however it was settled that both stick together. One local resident was sceptical of us delivering flyers to houses, concerned that we were trying to sell something, however after describing what the 'Nature in the Garden' event was about, he suddenly seemed quite intrigued, even wanting a few flyers himself to distribute to his neighbours.

With all the flyers distributed, the evening getting darker and managing to avoid injury from a few snappy and sharp letter plates, the task was completed. Hopefully many residents will visit the garden event as it certainly sounds amazing!

Credit to Kathryn who suggested the pun title!