On Monday evening Goodgym Brent met in Willesden , ready to return to one of our favourite tasks , Clitterhouse Farm House . We warmed up with a short round of dynamic exercises , then set of for a 2.3km run . Josh led the group , with Samina keeping up the pace. Anne Marie and Hannah supported eachother along the way, and Pete and Tabitha dragged along at the back. It was a rollercoaster ride but we made it in one piece , with red faces to match our t shirts .

Anika was eagerly awaiting our arrival , and had a choice of tasks waiting: weeding , pruning rosemary, spreading woodchip, breaking down cuttings for compost and cleaning the greenhouse windows .

We split the tasks and got to it , shortly joined by Kat and Lee who got stuck in immediately

We worked away until we began to lose daylight , stopped for a photo then jogged or walked back

We ended with a drink in Beer & burger and some more chips ... the edible kind

great job everyone !

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https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/goodgym-celebration-in-tottenham-court-road

First group met at Beer & Burger including Tabitha, Pete, Hannah, Josh and Samina. Shaking off the long weekend slumps, the journey to Kingsgate began.

A little sweaty and out of breath, the team meets Ajay at the task location, with Beatriz and Lee also joining.

After a short walk and instruction the gardening team got to work, pruning, sculpting, weeding, and creatively building a floral masterpiece in the garden plots. The end result being so perfect local residents came outside to enquire and offered to water them moving forward.

Feeling fulfilled and content the team started the uphill climb back to consume a well deserved drink and chip or two!

On Monday evening Meg, Tabitha and Pete met in Willesden , and ran to Brent Mencap, where we were joined by Anne Mari and Tania. Brent Mencap is dedicated to supporting Brent residents with learning disabilities, and they have a beautiful garden for its service users, but the tool shed was in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint.

Our task for the day was painting this shed white. We started off with a quick sweep of the shed with the brooms, then poured out the white paint and got to work with our paintbrushes and rollers. We worked well as a team, and it was a very satisfying task to watch the shed transform before our eyes. We had almost finished and the rain decided to join us!

This made us more determined to complete the job and in no time at all, the shed was sparkling white and we packed up ready to go!

Great work everyone

5 of us went to Mora Primary school to paint. Karen, Pete and Hannah met at Beer n Burger. It was Hannah's very first Goodgym session so a warm welcome Hannah. We did a short warm-up then jogged 2km to Mora Primary school. We took out the mats and paint / brushes which had been left for us. Hannah and Karen proceeded to roller and paint the first corridor wall that we had been assigned while Pete took photos, arranged for more brushes and looked out for Lee and Tania. They both joined shortly after and got stuck in. We painted the corridor walls outside the classrooms in the main hall a lovely magnolia. All very satisfactory. We then cleared up, put our tools away and took a quick group selfie. Tania then went to hers, Lee walked and Karen Hannah and Pete jogged back to B & B. We did a short cool down then stopped for a drink at B & B. Well done everyone.