We headed to St. Patrick’s Church on the Dudley Road to meet Nancy, fellow Goodgymer and hosting the evening’s session. The warm welcome was especially appreciated by those of us caught in the horizontal rain and strong winds!

It was great to welcome Thea to Goodgym for the first time and together with Nancy, Amy, Miriam & myself, we all made for a great decluttering team! With a mix of sorting items to be donated, ordering things by theme, and labelling to some beautiful music playing (thanks to Nancy for DJ-ing!) we were all in the zone and soon made a lot of progress. We were all super happy with the corridor now clear and the items nicely boxed up in the porch with full inventories!

And not to forget… lots of recyclables, so we all did the big bin jobs together, cold and dark by this point, but with us all mucking in, it took just a few minutes! We can’t wait to return to St. Patrick’s and continue helping with jobs like this and huge thanks again to Nancy for facilitating. 😊

This morning Narendra joined the Friends of Perry Common Meadow for their monthly litter pick.

It was a lovely morning with lots of litter picked and then Narendra ran a nice 2k in the sunshine :)

On quite a dreary but dry Tuesday evening the fab 4 headed to Stirchley to deliver leaflets and inform the locals of the fab free community event!

After following Amy's instructions Laura, Rich and I completed a 4k run.

Big catch ups, high on community spirit and adding miles to the tally ✅️✅️✅️ Excellent effort and well done all!

Tonight we welcomed Hannah to GoodGym for first time and we also had Joanne come along who was visiting from GG Exeter.

Four of the group ran to the task from the Good Intent and the others met us at the session. Laura warmly greeted us and it was on with the task.

We had to fill wooden frames with compost then cover the area around them with woodchipping, hence the pun thought up by James. Well actually we didn't just 'chip away' at the task in the end, we completed the whole thing! It was a really great job done which Laura more than appreciated :)

Once done it was time for a group photo then the group scattered, some running and some walking.

Eve had a refreshing, breezy run from the city centre down the canal to Selly Oak train station. I was ready with 150 Goodgym flyers for us to distribute between us. Off we went and covered big student streets like Dartmouth Road, Hubert Road, Heeley Road and Exeter Road! An hour or so in and we were done.

Slightly soggy stomp around Selly Oak, but the friendly local vibe and good chats kept our spirits high! Eve’s mission kept her streak going and it took me nicely over my daily 10,000 steps target.

📮🌟 Look out for our next Goodgym flyering mission soon!

Jonny and Narendra joined the Friends of Perry Common Meadows on a wonderful sunny morning at Perry Common. Yes, for once it wasn't raining!

Narendra had done a run around the common before we started and Jonny arrived on his bike.

We met at the Tiny Forest and got to work litter pick. Both GG'ers got a full bag of rubbish. Jonny certainly got to gym in GoodGym with a very heavy bag to carry back from the car park to the Tiny Forest. The biceps were certainly screaming!

Once done, Narendra joined the rest of the group in the cafe after the group pic of course :)