Despite a drizzly start, we had a fantastic turnout to yesterday's litter pick and that's proof that the January Challenge is providing some proper motivation! AND six members of the group had volunteered earlier at Hornfair Junior Parkrun so with this session we’ve now officially hit our target of 140 good deeds in January, which is a massive achievement.

Afer an ice breaker discussing our favourite breakfasts, yum, the walking team set off first and arrived ahead of the runners, who in typical GoodGym generosity took it in turns pushing the running buggy. Not an easy task with a whopping four-year-old on board, especially up those hills, but plenty of encouragement and shared effort got us all through it together.

Once everyone arrived, we split into groups and spread out across the Common to tackle the litter. By the end of the session, we’d collected an impressive 26 bags of litter in total. Great work everyone and well done on smashing our good deeds target.

Coming up...

On Wednesday we'll be weeding and doing other odd jobs at St Richard's

On Saturday, as well as our usual Parkruns we've got more litter picking around Sutcliffe Park for our last push on those good deeds!

Until next time, wonderful people!

Rachel

Tonight, 9 Goodgymers met for a school reunion, taking us back to Charlton Manor Primary where we painted the town grey! (Well, some cupboard doors anyway).

After an ice-breaker discussing favourite nuts, a slightly stormy evening pushed us on our way for the run, readying us to brush up on our artwork once we got to the school. Here we continued our project of painting the key stage 1 hall, this time covering the wall of cupboards in a glossy grey. Teamwork makes a task run super smoothly, and with rollers, cutting-in brushes and a few stretches & climbs, our job was done.

Brazil-iant work all, and cashew soon!