Three GoodGymers helped out at Stepney Bank Stables on a very pleasant Monday evening. The tasks tonight involved unloading hay bales from the horse box and then sweeping it out, before trying to remove the weeds from between the cobbles in the yard. A random oasser-by even offered to assist at one point!

Firstly, a big welcome to L on her first Goodgym session.

After a couple of weeks away in our second home, we were back at Stepney Bank Stables base and were tasked with freshing up the bedding for our hoofed friends.

We didn't have any time to horse around as we had to fill up a few wheelbarrows full of hay from the top stables all the way down to the bottom one.

A few of the horses were over the bale with excitement when they heard us approaching, which made it interesting when we had to get in with them to deliver their fresh ware.

After a quick reload of fresh stuff, and making sure the top stables were all spruced up, we dropped off the last of the new ground cover (which Bob the horse took great pleasure in doing his custom wee on!). And hopefully we will have straw-ted out a good night's sleep for our equine pals!

On a serene Monday evening two GoodGymers completed two tasks; cleaning the boards around the edge of the arena and picking some of the horses' favourite weeds and nettles.

The boards needed to be clean ahead of an event at the stables on Saturday and hopefully a big difference was made. Two large baskets were filled with horse snacks, which will likely be well-received.

Welcome Anjali to your first goodgym mission.

Anjali and I got to work on sorting the riding boots, Anna sorted the riding hats and Scott, Aimee and Max sorted the riding lanes.

We all came together at the end to sweep the stable paths.

During tonights photography shoot, a hat was temporarily stolen. The hat was soon retrieved directly from the culprit.

Photo credits go to Aimee and Anna.

Have a good week everyone!

Tonight's task was a special one! Back to Stepney Bank Stables and our fabulous host had some great tasks for us including cleaning the bridles, grooming and massaging the horses, preparing snacks for their supper and giving their home an early spring clean. Pampered ponies - you wouldn't get a better, more relaxing, spa experience at a Champneys!

We had 3 new people tonight - Weronika, Iline and Elena joined us for their first ever mission and Tom made the switch from Greenwich to Newcastle, joining us for his first Toon-based task! It was great to welcome so many new people.

Special shout out to Tom, Jack and David who got themselves ready for their close up with ITV news who were filming us tonight - fingers crossed our fellas get their 15 minutes!

Blue Monday? Not for these GoodGymmers!

Today's task involved another trip to our Ouseburn homebase to help out at Stepney Bank Stables. This time we were in for a bit of early Spring cleaning and divided into two teams to tackle the tasks!

Scott and I were on Team Cobweb and we needed some real elbow grease to get the safety gates looking fresh! Scott taking some before and afters and really giving those webs what for!

And as for Team Quadbike, they got to work on levelling out the mosh pit that had appeared to keep the lovely Stepney steeds safe. To finish off the job, Aimee and Max took turns on the quadbike - total pros! And thanks to Aimee for the pics of a few of our lovely hosts!

Always a great session at Stepney and a really satisfying task!