Five GoodGymers left the Showroom on another glorious Monday night with half an idea of where we were going! After finding Sustrans Simon and the other Sustrans volunteers, we found Curly Cat too. Armed with litter pickers, shovels, snippers and brooms we spent 45 minutes clearing up an overgrown section of the cycle network. We snipped picked, brushed and scraped at the vegetation that was narrowing the path and cleared up around the benches and stairs to make the area more appealing for both foot and bike passengers.

As ever, there were some excellent finds including a duvet! We dragged out a load of Himalayan Balsam and stinging nettles. We also saw a beautiful flock of geese land themselves in the river.

By the time we left, this area of the cycle network which it very widely used was much more inviting for the public and as we were working, lots of the users thanked us which is always lovely to hear!

Another great job for the GoodGymers.

Looks like the evenings are drawing in us again and so from next week, it is probably time to dig out those head torches!

On a hot muggy evenings, 6 stoic GoodGymmers met with Brilliant Ben from Roundabout to spread the word about the upcoming fundraiser for this vital charity: Roundabout is South Yorkshire’s local youth homeless charity providing shelter, support and life skills to young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

And back to the fundraiser that we were promoting: the Yorkshire Chocolate Festival is back in Sheffield on Saturday 19th October! Well worth shouting out about!

So, armed with wooden spoons - or former bamboo toothbrushes - the dauntless 6 split into 2 teams to cover the "Groves" and the "Botanical" streets; we braved the hills, the heat and the vicious postboxes and after one hour we had delivered flyers on no less than 11 streets. Way to go team!

We'll finish spreading the word and chocolate love on 9th September - sign up now!