As our first experiment in recruiting new members, Saturday morning’s mission was a good start. We were blessed with fine weather and the location was ideal for the morning walkers by the river (thanks to Trevor for letting us use the Sea Scouts archway).

Adam and Chris came via JP’s home to collect and help carry the roller banners and table. We set these up and stood ready to talk to passers-by about the wonderful thing that is GoodGym in Richmond.

We spent an hour - it’s difficult to keep energy high when trying to stop people to talk to them! - and managed to get a good list of emails from people keen to know more about what we do. Hopefully a few others will have noted the signs and will find us on their own. And we picked up a few ideas for how to improve the exercise next time. All in all a worthwhile exercise and one to be repeated!

What a lovely evening over the river at Marble Hill Play Centres. GoodGym Richmond haven't been there since before COVID and most of us hadn't been there at all, so it was a lovely surprise to discover this large play area in Marble Hill Park. Especially so given that trustees Steph and Kelly were there to meet us and made us feel so welcome immediately!

A huge hello to Danielle and Basia who joined us for their first ever GoodGym task and got stuck straight in with helping to rake bark, litter pick and weed thistles and saplings across the play area.

At the end of our time, we took a step back to take a photo and could really see the result of many hands at work. We worked out that the session would be equal to a full day of non-stop work for one energetic person, what a great example of what GoodGym can help to achieve in just 45 minutes!

We will be back there soon, keep an eye on listings. Thank you Marble Hill Play Centres!