Our first task at Kings Heath Community Centre! We turned up to be greeted by Maisie, who showed us to the room we were painting. We also met two volunteers who recently started helping out at the centre. I began by covering the radiator in special radiator paint, then joined Miriam and Sofeen with their rollers to paint some fresh white walls. Such a friendly atmosphere and a great space. Look out for our next session there, hopefully in just a few months!

Despite the heat Goodgymers came to help out at the Stirchley Community Market! Chairs were set up, tables were arranged and general odd jobs were done!

Tonight we had a magnificient attendance of 13 people at the task to move 2 tonnes of sand at St Thomas Nursery.

Jonny, Morwenna and Emily ran to the task from The Good Intent to meet the rest of the group at the task.

Chela, Klaudia and Thea joined us for the first time and really got stuck in to the job in hand, which was to move the sand into the 'beach' for the children at the nursery to play in. The group quickly went into 2 groups, doing the 2 different bags. Spades, saucepans and shovels were used, with then the wheelbarrows emptying the sand onto the beach! The pun has a little nod to Rory Mcilroy's Masters triumph on Sunday evening.

In around 25 minutes we were done! There even was time to build a few sandcastles.

The task owner, Laura was delighted with our efforts :) After a group photo we all headed off, James, joining the other 3 runners for the run back to the Good Intent.

Amy, Sofeen, Christina and Laura helped set up the Stirchley Community Market on Saturday morning for their spring community day! We even had a lovely visit from Josie and her new arrival to boost morale!

Table were arranged, bunting was put up and posters were hung!

We had a lovely run for our traditional loop round the Bournville area, culminating at the famous tree!! Laura, Morwenna, Eve, Rich, Abigail and Veronika joined me on the run- with everyone else meeting in the pub afterwards for a Christmas bev and also to say goodbye to my gallbladder which will hopefully be removed tomorrow!

Thanks all for a fab send off!

The GoodGym Bunch turned up bright and early to Stirchley Baths on a drizzly Saturday morning to help set up for the Autumn Stirchley Community Market! Amy and Veronika expertly put up the gazebo with Sofeen and Laura’s help - good thing we practised a few weeks before!

Christina helped put out the decorations around the baths and then we all gave some old tables a scrub so they could be re-sold to a new home!

Big thank you to the GoodGym crew - we couldn’t have done it without you!

Our wonderful Amy is taking on more responsibility at the Stirchley Community Market and so she led us all in a team building task setting up a market stall to see how many pieces we had!!

Laura and Sofeen had put up the stall before so quickly took to assembling the pieces and showing us what to do. It felt like an escape room or crystal maze puzzle!! With Laura's memory and a sort of helpful photo Amy had - we managed to get it together! Abigail and Chris were excellent organisers, getting the pieces ready and coming up with solutions.

The hardest part of the day was putting the heavy metal pieces back quietly while a class was in session in the community centre! We also kept having the door closed on us. Quite the team building experience.

Srinivas joined us in Stirchley for the first time and did amazingly on our 3k run. Hope to see you again!!

Shout out to Veronika who cycled to the mission and then did a run with us! Duathlon vibes.