Six Goodgymmers, Emma, Sophie, James, Daryl, Keith and Lea, turned up at the Dorset Children’s Foundation hub to help Patsy with some chores that would take a lot longer for her on her own! Recycled ceiling panels, dustier than dusty, had to be swept with a brush, a task taken on lefthanded by Lea, then taken to the painting team, consisting of Sophie, Emma and James. What about Keith and Daryl though?! Well, a kitchen that was covered in dust, because of work done in the building, was waiting to be cleaned from ceiling to floor. When Lea returned from the DCF charity shop with some jigsaws that had to be counted (yikes, 1000 pieces?!, and some smaller ones) Lea set to counting to 1000, later on joined by Keith and Daryl who took the smaller jigsaws. When the floor was covered with the ceiling panels, having turned from a dusty grey into beautiful black, the kitchen sparkling clean, and the jigsaws counted, we called it a day! With Patsy, as ever, very grateful again for all our hard work. And Chloe very happy indeed with a few more jigsaws counted! Hopefully there will be a next episode soon.

It's that time again! Our favourite task of the month, GoodGym's Quiz at Abbeyfield Retirement Home!

Tonight was a good turn out. We had James, Chloe, Eleanor and Luke on the ladies team "Loose Women" and Janet, Daryl,Ross and Paul joining team "The Seagulls."

Caprice this week was quiz master giving a tricky quiz of four rounds. The four rounds included; Geography, History&Politics, The Arts and good old General Knowledge. The Arts Round again proved to be the most challenging with some really tricky questions, it really got them thinking! This week's winners smashed it with a respectable 28/40 "The Seagulls" Well done to them, what a cracking score!! "The Loose Women" scored a well earned 21/40.

It was tough tonight, the quiz had some tricky questions We will return next month this time with a music and a picture round! We hope to see you there!

Three and a half Goodgymmers, Roger, Daryl, Keith, and Lea with an injured shoulder, hence only one useful arm, went to Bearwood School. Guess what: the area a few Goodgymmers had cleared a few months ago was again full of stuff… two classrooms had flooded over the holidays, cleared out and all the rubbish thrown out. Including two rabbit hutches; no rabbits though! The big skip was waiting to be filled and did we fill it!! Keith and Daryl had a great time attacking huge slabs of wood, using a jemmy and kicking boards loose. Together they were also dismantling a gate when David, the caretaker, said: “oh, I wanted to keep that!” Too late! All in bits and in the skip with it. luckily he was joking… I hope. Roger, as usual, was a great asset, strong as he is. Even the one-armed Goodgymmer, Lea, managed to toss some stuff in the skip. Her other important task was supervising the men, talking to a lonely Santa in the skip, as well as taking all the photographs to show the good work we were doing. David was certainly very, very pleased again with our efficient and hardworking Goodgym team! Thanks everyone for your hard work.

Nine Goodgymmers, Chloe, James, Luke, Millie, Sophie, Eleanor, Daryl, Keith and Lea, were ready and raring to go walk leading the Walk for Wards at 9 o’clock this morning…. Eh, well, the organisers had failed to mention that the actual walks didn’t start till 11 o’clock! Goodgymmers being Goodgymmers filled the time with reading about the queen, about rocks and minerals, and happily chatting away, admiring the bubble machine and getting some faces painted. The Star studded lawn, with Captain America, Mary Poppins, the Incredible Hulk, Resident Evil (eh who?!?!), Snowwhite, Sulley, Ghostbusters …. added a bit more entertainment, although Millie, Sophie, Luke and Eleanor were nearly drawn to “The Dark Side”! Nope, didn’t happen: ready for the off first were Sophie, Millie, Eleanor and Luke, leading the 10k walk. Closely followed by Daryl and Lea walk leading the 5k with Keith as a backmarker. Last but not least Chloe and James set off to lead the 3k walk. My oh my, was it sloooow going! What didn’t help was a lady thinking she was walking the 3k , but she was in the 10k group. Luckily we managed to point her to the right group. And there were many people of such varying abilities. Kudos to the old guy in the 5k pushing a lady in a wheelchair all the way round! Seeing why and who people were walking for was really impressive. The 10k walk all the way to the Asda roundabout and back got a little “long in the tooth” and James not getting through to the organisers emergency numbers were a tad tedious (read: annoying/frightening)! But with the weather Gods providing us with bluer than blue skies, we were all happy to have completed another Goodgym task! Thanks everyone!

I runner made it mak to St Georges Church Boscombe Pantry for a final clean and touch up where needed I must say a big thank you to all that made it to St Georges this week this could not of been completed without your help and enthusiasm Thank you

Milly,Sophie,Mohammed,and Daryl meet at St Georges Church Boscombe for day three of painting the Pantry today we were joined by Chris who is one of the Volunteers at Grounded Community. Milly,Sophie, Mohammed, And Daryl set to work cleaning and painting a small room which is going to be a office whilst Chris went round touching up area's that needed it . We managed to get a lot done thank you all for your work this week The Pantry is looking so much brighter.