This Thursday, Cambridge GoodGymers helped deliver donations to Cambridge City Foodbank through Greens Organise Cambridge's mutual aid initiative 🍞🥫🍫🧃

Catherine, Caroline, Scott and Christopher met for a bouncy warm-up and a jog along the river, working up a sweat in the evening heat. Eva joined the group to collect the donations and between them, the team loaded 5 crates of items into their backpacks! It was a rather weighted walk to the foodbank but all the donations were happily received, and the team felt very proud of their efforts 🏋

Practically skipping back with their bags now emptied, the group got some more steps in on the 2.5km walk across to Thirsty for this month's social. Nick joined and everyone raised a glass to all the good deeds achieved this month 🍻

Over the next few hours, the team relaxed with plenty of laughter, chats about superconductors and property law, tricky beer decisions, shared pet photos and some impressive multitasking by Eva with a beautiful embroidery piece 🪡

Apparently keen to get even more steps in, some of the gang succumbed to the temptation of Jack's and jogged into town for some late-night gelato. Double (double) tinies all round! 🍦

What a fabulous evening and a fantastic way to bring together members of the GoodGym Cambridge team. We're looking forward to next month's social already, and all the good deeds in between!

We were back at the Definitely Real Build site clearing a large wood pile to make space for the Green Trail project launch event next week.

After a run to Arbury from town we had a warm welcome onto site, serenaded by 2 very tuneful dogs. We soon got stuck in with Beth and I sorting and shifting the wood, and Scott sawing larger pieces down to size. It was a warm one, and after a pretty sweaty hour, we had the wood store full.

Sawing techniques were sometimes questionable, but it got the job done and we all left unharmed (largely thanks to Scott's inherent carpentry expertise). We can't guarantee the same for a spider and slug who we found having a standoff on one of the logs.

The task prompted us to reminisce about the heady days of school woodwork classes, carefully (yet badly) crafting bird boxes.

As any good session should, we ended with more fuss of adorable dogs before running back to town.

We'll be back for more with Sin Cru next month 🙌