It was great to be back at the Wishing Well this week to do a spot of tidying up in their community garden. It’s always a nice task to do, because you can always see the results of your efforts quite quickly.

Karen, Kat, Nigel and Maurice had a busy and productive evening digging, pruning, mowing and weeding. It was quite a physical task but the difference at the end of the evening was worth all the hard work! We hope that the people who come to the Wishing Well and use the garden, can see the difference!

We were lucky, because the evening had been quite showery before we arrived at the task but true to Goodgym form, the rain kept its distance!

Well done everyone, you’ve done yourselves proud this evening (as always). The garden is looking amazing.

Missed you all tonight and really looking forward to seeing you all again next week.

Take care and see you all soon.

Lots of love. Nicola xxxx

Tonight was very exciting for us for so many reasons!!

Firstly, we were super excited to welcome the lovely Marjo & Mark to their first Goodgym task! It was really lovely to have you both and we really hope that you had enjoyed your first experience of GoodGym (despite getting so mucky!!).

Secondly, we had a new task to go to this evening… The RSPCA! We were so thrilled to be able to support this wonderful charity and we received a lovely welcome from Angela who is one of the amazing volunteers at the centre, and we quickly got stuck into the task of clearing and levelling some of the ground ready for seeding... creating a tyre wall and lining & filling the tyres with compost ready for planting.... and laying some flags. It's been a while since we did such a physical task and got so dirty but it was great fun and it was great to see the end result!

At the end of the task, we headed to the beautiful White Lion pub in Hankelow to celebrate Maurice’s birthday tomorrow. I think it was quite possibly one of the nicest pubs I’ve ever been to. We had a well earned drink and a slice of Colin the Caterpillar sat out in the beer garden. It was lovely!

And the sun shone!!!! After days of rain, the Goodgym luck was with us. It was wonderful to finally have some sunshine and warmth!

Well done everyone - a real achievement this evening.

Have a great week everyone and hope to see you soon!

Happy Birthday for tomorrow Maurice! We hope you have a great day!

Take Care.

Lots of love Nicola xx

A busy morning at junior parkrun in Queens Park, Crewe, and 3 GoodGymmers Karen, Maurice and Nigel were on hand to make the magic happen! Following a check of the course we decided to cut out the section by the lake due to the amount of goose and swan poo, so a small adjustment to the course was needed.

Volunteers organised, course changed, lots of first timers meeted and greeted, and everyone warmed up, they were off! Its incredible to see so many juniors running, walking and skipping, holding hands with their friends and their parents and chatting away - of course there some who were so fast they didn’t have the breath to chat! We love their enthusiasm and the fact this opportunity exists for children of all abilities to take part in a free weekly event, and their parents can join in too.

Between them, Karen, Maurice and Nigel carried out the roles of volunteer coordinator, course check, course set up, marshal, photographer, and course close-down, and were rewarded with a relaxing morning on the cafe terrace , catching up on the week’s events and plans with other lovely volunteers. The best way to spend a Sunday morning!

it seems like summer might have finally arrived!! The sun was shining, it was warm and it was the perfect opportunity for four friends to get together and do a bit of community work for the fantastic charity Wishing Well

Karen, Nigel, Maurice and Nicola started the evening with a brisk circular walk down towards the cemetery and in a loop back via some bits of town that none of us had ever seen before! How long have we lived here?!

It was a good opportunity for us to catch up with each other and chat about various topics including parkrun (of course!), the football, work, holidays… to name a few.

Back at the centre, we each set to work on different tasks and got stuck in. We looked at what needed doing and worked accordingly. Maurice mowed the lawn, Nigel and Karen weeded and dug over one of the raised beds and Nicola did a litter pick around the outside of the building. it was a productive evening rounded off perfectly with a very refreshing pint (or Diet Coke) at Hops bar with another opportunity to for more chat and arranging our forthcoming Goodgym social ❤

It was a lovely evening, spent with lovely people and enjoying some lovely weather (for once! ☀️).

Well done! You're all amazing ❤

Have a great week. Lots of love.

Nicola xxx

After all the rain we’ve had in recent weeks, we could not have wished for a nicer evening to do our leafleting task for Motherwell

Karen , Nigel, Maurice and Nicola set off on the scenic route to the housing estate where we were going to be delivering leaflets. Our walk took us through the woods and along the path by Joey the Swan. We didn’t see any swans mind you… :-) However, the housing estate we were delivering in had all their roads named after waterfowl. The ones I can remember are teal, pochard, mandarin, wigeon, cob and shoveler. I can’t remember anymore but I bet Karen can!!

The leaflets we were delivering were promoting Motherwell’s services, in particular their forthcoming attendance at the village fete where they are having a stall to help fundraise for the charity and to help continue to fund all the amazing work they do.

We all agreed that it was a lovely evening to be outside, especially in such a nice area. We were surrounded by fields, trees and the woods. It was lovely. Couple all of that with great company and it made for the perfect task.

We managed to deliver all of the leaflets and had a lovely walk back. We covered a fabulous 3 miles in total.

It was great to see Nigel back this evening. We've missed you!

Another fab task completed! Well done everyone ❤

Have a great week.

Lots of love. Nicola xxx