This months Park Run takeover, was given a little bit of extra sparkle ✨️ as Dani and Duncan not only came to help with set up, as part of the takeover, but they also both achieved to milestone of running their 50th Park Run. Gail and Sam joined them to get the event set up, an early start thats not for everyone, but they always do a fantastic job. Martin was marshalling and enjoyed cheering 👏 on all the runners 🏃‍♂️ as they passed him in the delightful April sunshine 🌞. After finishing their milestone run, Dani and Duncan 🎃 walked round the whole course again to share brownies with all the marshal's. Well done team on another successful takeover and well done to Milestone duo on the achievement.

Tonight at the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara, 4 Luton Goodgymers helped the Temples Aunties cook, wash up and host members of the Roma trust and the Link Centre. We helped to cook vegetable rice, dad and rice pudding. Derrick was hooked and took notes whilst stirring the pot and adding spices to the delicious meal. It was great to see the Aunties sharing there tips and tricks with the guests, explaining about spices and giving everyone a chance to taste them and learn the flavours. Duncan got stuck in with some heavy lifting, when the rice needed draining before adding it to the spice mix. There was a minor spillage but we soon cleared it up. It was great to have Musa back after a short break over Ramadan, and he got stuck in with the cooking as soon as he arrived. We all got to taste the finished dishes, then all chipped on with washing up and tidying away. The Aunties were greatly appreciative. Great session team. Well done

Tonight, 5 of Luton's finest met at the Greenhouse Community Hub in Stopsley to help with some painting in the new space they have, which will soon be a community cafe. 4 of the team set out from town and ran just shy of 3 km to our task, where we meeting Rebeccawho was walking to the task. On our run to Stopsley we passed Kevin from ABCD-IN-LUTON, it was lovely to see him and we look forward to teaming up with him again soon. After arriving, we set about our task. We were giving the toilets its first coat on new plaster. We did this with a water/pva glue solution, which went on quite nicely. Lizzy nearly blinded herself painting the ceiling and Duncangot to grips with all the high areas. Ella dealt with all the fiddly bits and I took some photos, climbed a ladder and misbehaved. We had fun and after washing up our brushes and rollers, we set off back to our starting points. I'm sure there'll be lots more to do at this project and we look forward to helping out in the near future. Well done team

4 Goodgymers made their way up to Warden Hills Community Centre on Sunday morning to scope out the allotment worked on last year for Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat.

The plot was in pretty good shape and we set to work turning over and tidying up the central section ready for planting out.

2 rows of shallots and 1 row of onions later and things were taking shape nicely. Jingo meanwhile sorted out some existing shallots which had sprung to life in early spring - clearing the weeds and giving them space and light to thrive.

Tigger and Martin assessed the remaining areas and plans are afoot to get potatoes, kale and other vegetable goodies planted out - future Goodgym tasks so watch this space!

All were very good and didn't end up in the pub next door - there's always next time though!