What a beautiful evening to celebrate GoodGym Bournemouth's 7th birthday. Our first ever good deed was a beach clean so to celebrate, the GoodGymers performed a litter-pick at gloriously sunny Durley Chine beach. Daryl, Neil, Janet and Caprice met newbies Lucy and Louis for a short Group Run to the Beach. Welcome Lucy and Louis! They certainly looked the part by wearing red T-Shirts (hopefully it won't take long for their shirts to arrive) Once at the beach they met Hannah, Sue, Paul, Katie and Katie's mum Jill. It was Jill's first time at GoodGym, she is smashing her C25K so hopefully next time we will see her at our Group Runs! The beach was still quite busy so the group started their litter pick by whizzing around the car-park and up onto the cliff-top. It was slim pickings to start with but the bags just kept getting heavier. We were soon joined by Lea and Keith who had spent the day volunteering on Brownsea Island. They were both knackered but still managed to join us with their grabbers and bin bags. We love you guys! After a successful session the group then hit the beach for celebratory drinks and snacks. What a great bunch, it was so nice to see so many faces! Here's to another seven years and more!! Cheers! 🥂🎉

Quiz time again and what a cracking turnout from both GoodGymers and residents. Four teams were made with Daryl joining 'The Castaways.' Katie and Ross joining 'GoodGym Guys.' Sue joining 'Vicky's Wine Club' and Hannah and Neil joining 'Abbeyfield A-Team.'

Quiz master Caprice put them through their paces with four tough rounds.. Round 1 - General Knowledge, Round two - True or False (with fun facts about broccoli) , Round 3 - Cheese or Service Station? (some tricky ones but they all sounded like cheese to me!) And finally a little twist on the music Round with Round 4 - Name The Year Of The Song.

All teams did well but 'Vicky's Wine Club' smashed it again with 30/50! They obviously know their cheeses from their service stations!!

Next week GoodGym Bournemouth will be celebrating their 7 year anniversary. To celebrate the team will be meeting for a Group Run to Durley Chine to perform a litter pick followed by beach party fun and games!! We hope to see you there!

Today's mission was to help paint a playground wall ready for a new mural. The rain clouds couldn't deter these GoodGymers from their Misson to help Neil at Bishop's Aldhelm's School. Daryl got to work cutting back the hedge, Hannah sweeping up the mess and Caprice helped Neil brush the wall ready for the first coat of paint. Once the wall was prepped, everyone got to work painting and it didn't take long until the wall was covered. A very grateful Neil thanked the gang and they then headed home. I'm sure that GoodGym will be back to help him with some other projects so watch this space.

Five GoodGymers joined the residents at Abbeyfield Wessex Society Care home for GoodGym's monthly quiz. The quiz was very musical this month as a special request from one of the residents. Daryl and Ross joining the 'mens' team The Untouchables. Sue joining the team Loose Women and Hannah joining another team which also named themselves The Loose Women! Caprice being the quiz master put them through their paces. After three tricky music rounds the teams fought it out with Loose Women (Sue's team!) getting an amazing 31 1/2 out of 43.

We look forward to another quiz next month, please see the dates on our website. The run is also less than one mile each way for those who would like to join us for a shorter run. It's a great starter session for those new to running.

See you there next month!