Our June Monday visit to our sponsored riverside plot and we were blessed with a lovely still evening after heavy rain. Chelsea met us at the Tap to run with GoodGym for the very first time, welcome Chelsea! A good stretch and an intro later, we headed off to the riverside with a steady jog towards our lock-up at the arcade.

The grass was dry enough to use for our fitness session: a mix of squats, kicks, walk out push-ups and lunges; a bit of extra oomph before getting stuck into weeding and dusting the arcade, finishing off with a run back into Richmond and a final push up the hill!

We will be back next month for more summer care of the area, and our big 10th birthday!

We made great progress at the 3 Pigeons Plot. It was amazing to see how much had changed since our last visit just a month ago, with lots more plants now in flower.

We got stuck into weeding, both in the borders and the lawn, and we also did a bit of litter picking to help keep everything looking its best.

It was also great to welcome Helen to her first task with us. Her plant knowledge was much appreciated and definitely came in handy!

We'll be back at the 3P’s again on Monday to carry on with a few more jobs. Please come along and join us if you’re free!

Second Monday of the month means GoodGym Richmond Signature task! Starting at the Tap Tavern and giving a very warm welcome to Sam and Kayley joining for the first time, we had a proper warm-up, preparing for this month's fitness session.

Following a run along the river (accompanied by a ridiculous number of gnats!) the group got into some squats, jumps, lunges, pike reach throughs and flutter kicks before getting stuck into the tasks.

Between us we managed to turn the compost, sweep the arcade, dust cobwebs, water the Three Pigeons plot, cut back the pampas, pull out a lot of the riverside weeds, dead head and rake up! There is always more to do at such a lovely spot, and we had some very welcome thanks from passers-by too 😍

The evening finished with drinks and a chat at the White Cross, what a way to start the week!

On a gorgeous sunny Bank Holiday Saturday five GGer's attended our monthly visit to the Three Ps .
We welcomed first timer Manuela for her first ever Good Gym task, while Rory came back for his second having impressively completed his first ever Richmond park run. After Jp had welcomed everyone, we set up about weeding and general tidy up of the Three Ps plot, Jenna successfully helped with weeding it easy. Overall a job well done and we certainly weed better together!

April's Monday trip to our sponsored riverside plot and there is always a lot to do in spring. Following a fitness session and a big congratulations to Susannah for reaching 200 tasks (clapped on by thousands of gnats swarming around the river!), we tackled the following jobs:

🌷 Dead-heading the tulips 🌿 Raking the cut grass from Buccleuch Gardens to leave the lawn looking great and the previous patches growing well where we put new seed down last year 🪑 Weeding and clearing around the benches 🍃 Weeding the Three Pigeons plot and sweeping up all of the sides

We can already see lots of jobs to do next month, join us on the first Saturday and/or the second Monday too to get involved!

Our April Saturday trip to our sponsored riverside plot at Buccleuch Gardens, led by Susannah. This time the area was really showing the joys of spring with everything in abundance, including a variety of weeds! Lots to do for our group of happy chatty GoodGymmers for the long Easter bank holiday weekend, including first timers Rory and Jenna, welcome!

Leaves were removed from the lawn, beds were weeded, saplings pulled and the beautiful tulips were given space to breathe, an excellent impact all before midday on a Saturday! 🐣🐰