It was a one-man GoodGym session this week as Rowan headed to Wild & Fruity Community Allotment to shift some paving slabs.

The group were in need of some support after a series of recent break-ins so it was particularly pleasing to be able to support them with this important task.

We'll be back again in a few weeks to do some more shifting and digging.

Next week we're delivering some Bolton Post Newspapers 🗞️

Well, we certainly lit up Bolton tonight! Well, if you spotted a bunch of flashing, glowing, women running around Bolton tonight… that was us! We joined the, Let’s Lift the Curfew campaign, and we certainly didn’t do things by halves! Head torches, flashing lights, glow sticks and enough colour to rival Blackpool Illuminations! For some ladies, this was their first-ever run in the dark. A few nerves, but once we got going there was no stopping them! Lots of laughs, plenty of conversations and I’m not sure we could have made ourselves any more visible if we’d tried! Of course, there was a serious message behind all the fun. With 72% of women changing their outdoor activity routines during winter, we wanted to show that the dark nights shouldn’t mean hanging up our trainers. Hopefully a few more ladies will now feel confident getting out for an evening run, especially with a few friends alongside them. Who needs daylight when you’ve got this lot to brighten up your evening!

We returned to Harwood Library this week to finish the job we started last week alongside *The Friends of Harwood and Longsight Park *.

A quick second coat of paint on the wall, followed by some hammerlite on the railings - bish bash bosh, there's your freshly painted library!

Thanks to Jane Wilcock for providing all the equipment and lining up this satisfying mission.

We spent an incredibly satisfying Friday evening transforming the outside of Harwood Library, painting some railings and a wall.

Rowan and first timer Jonathan joined Jane Wilcock and The Friends of Harwood and Longsight Park dedicating an hour to a well used local facility.

We'll be returning this Friday to apply a second coat and finish the job! 👊🏻

We returned to Tonge Moor UCAN centre this week to continue the tidy up of an overgrown community garden.

3 GoodGym'ers spent an hour each bagging rotten apples and pears and weeding and turning the soil over in a couple of raised beds.

Well done to Saf, Laurence and Rowan for their efforts.

Next week we'll be heading over to Harwood Library to spruce up the outside of the building with some painting!

We headed to Tonge Moor UCAN centre this week to start the tidy up of an overgrown community garden.

Laurence tackled the hundreds of rotting apples and pears that had gathered under the fruit trees 🍏🍐 while Rowan started on the litter and weeds.

45 minutes later, we'd made a noticeable difference and started to see the potential of this once glorious garden.

We'll be back again next soon to make some more progress and get one step closer to returning it to its former glory!