A wonderful evening to be by the picture-perfect riverside in Richmond as we headed to Petersham & Ham Sea Scouts to continue work on the driveway. The driveway sees a lot of action at this very popular scout base. Over time the cars that pass over it have created holes where puddles form so it was our job to help fill them in!

This was a real all-body workout with shoveling sand mix, wheelbarrowing it around, pick axeing the compacted ground, drilling drainage holes and carrying equipment.

All this was accompanied by a 5km round trip run by the river where our red t-shirts caught the eye of many locals who shared a 'hello' or a 'thank you'. We even had three people run alongside us for a section, in sliders!

We are back at the Sea Scouts this Saturday and next Monday, https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/helping-to-lay-a-path-at-the-sea-scouts-hq-5b739871-f0b8-479d-bd34-2438ea6df5b9

A warm but overcast Saturday morning welcomed 3 GGers to the Richmond Furniture Scheme where task owner Simon was ready with a task for us - moving a pile of heavy vinyl flooring rolls to behind their shed.

First up, a cup of tea. Self-respecting removers won’t starting lifting anything without one.

Then, we got going. Those rolls were so heavy they must have broken vinyl records. But with the aid of a small trolley, a fair bit of heft and our cups of tea, we managed to get them all moved and stacked up behind the shed.

There were 8 rolls in all and we were pretty pooped when we finished - but we had a bit of time left so did a bit of fence-weeding to leave the area tidy, and off we went to enjoy our Saturday.

Next time up at the RFS is on 17th August. Sign up here: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/helping-richmond-furniture-scheme-to-support-others-c3bbd1ab-caf7-439f-a598-e47e293b381f

A rose rescue mission at an elderly couple's home in Ham. They had an incredible bright scarlet rose bush with dozens and dozens of buds but a horrible vine had grown all around it. I carefully untangled it and took out the roots to stop any vines growing back. They also had an old honeysuckle that I dug out to give them some room to plant something new in the flower bed.

GoodGym Richmond celebrated eight years of keeping fit while doing good this evening with an epically wet run to AFC Heatham House!

This great youth club welcomed us for a special task before our social, only heavy rain meant the planner task was impossible so it was all play and no task!

Brilliant host Danielle spoiled us with a pasta dish, fruit, brownies and dips in the games room - perfect for table football, table tennis and pool.

Before an equally soggy run back to the start point at Tap Tavern, Liz shared some smashing stats for GoodGym Richmond tasks (1154 in the last year 🥳), so much to celebrate!