Wow! What a busy morning at our big beginners session with Ouseburn Trust. We welcomed FOUR new GoodGymers to our Saturday bonanza and the sun came out too- eventually!

I did a quick round up and hello to Oliver, Briony, Sam and Suze who joined us for their first good deed before heading off to meet Dave and Dale from Ouseburn Trust. The sun came out as we were given our jobs: path clearing and litter picking around the network of paths around Ouseburn.

It was a real workout today and I bet there will be some aching arms tomorrow as we scraped and cleared the paths and cobbles to make them safe and accessible for the many users who pass through every day. The local humans and animals popped by as you can see from the photos!

Wrapping up the session we finished with a three station fitness session and I treated everyone to my annoying bleepy timer for the running, tricep dipping and star jumping. You are welcome! What a huge effort from everyone today.

There is no Monday session this week but we are back with a brilliant new Community Mission at Summerhill Park next Sunday. See you then!

A super seven GoodGymers got together tonight to run and walk to support a super organisation in Byker.

We caught up on a busy weekend that included a community mission and a social, and looked ahead at a busy couple of weeks coming up then set off to a very nearby task! Just up the hill from our base at Stepney Bank Stables is a cute little community allotment looked after by the brilliant North East Wilds. This is an amazing organisation that gives people with disabilities and other limiting factors to access wellbeing through gardening projects, and tonight was the first of a few visits we have planned with them.

Task owner Bryony was there to meet us and within a few minutes of looking around this fabulous little space, we had our fantastic floodlights set up and got stuck in. We had two jobs to take care of: large wood panels to take apart and move, and paths to clear to make them more accessible. Everyone got stuck in tonight: lifting, shifting, chopping, lopping, clearing and avoiding thousands of creepy crawlies.

"The group will come in tomorrow and they will be blown away by what you've done"

Tools cleared and put back and we headed back to base feeling happy about a job very well done. We can't wait to get back and continue supporting such a great initiative (and they brought chocolates to say thank you!!). We did a tummy-burning core workout to finish off and left with the glow of a Monday night well spent.