This Saturday evening, Steph Ducat, Mourad and I met on the Strand to help Gurseva dish out their food. This evening it was a delicious smelling veggie biriyani.

It was wonderful to welcome Mourad to his first Goodgym session, and chat a little before the van arrived. Then we set to work, alongside the other volunteers, to dish out the biriyani, sandwiches, snacks and drinks. The queue was long today and we were a little worried we might run out. But I don't think anyone left empty handed in the end.

Once the food was gone, we very efficiently packed up. Until next time!

All parts of the now familiar process with Mrs S on a Friday morning worked exactly as they should today, and apart from wanting a bottle of (expensive...) extra virgin olive oil, everything on the list was equally familiar - so I was out and back in no time, much to Mrs S's surprise.

The shopping luck was definitely on my side this afternoon as I worked my way down Mr R's list - got the last of the British Asparagus and the last Rye loaf...fortunately everything else was well stocked, so it proved a quick and easy trip this week, and I avoided the rain too.

Lovely walk to Miss M flat and she has the items that needed to be dropped at the local charity ready in front of her flat door. She just wanted one of the bags back so that she could use it for the next collection of items. I had 4 bags and and small basket. I took the 4 bags in one go which surprised Miss M and I was back in a dash with the bag she wanted in return. Small walk and run to the local charity shop Fara...Que Fara Fara!!!

The ladies at Fara are delighted with the items being dropped and getting use to seeing Goodgym dropping them off.

Miss M will be getting more visits from Goodgym as she loads more to be collected - great giveaway and clear out!

...as in "not too big".

Mrs S pushed her fingers and thumbs together to indicate the size of the Bramley cooking apple she wanted me to buy this morning from across the kitchen table...I wasn't quite sure how to process that particular piece of information. The challenge was then extended to "2 sweet potatoes - again not too big" and "tub of greek yoghurt, not too small"...hopefully I met her expectations on all the items...

High energy, positive vibes and a big impact - it's all in a night's work at GoodGym Westminster!

It was amazing to welcome members of North Paddington Youth Club to our session last night. Waleed, MJ and Hussen have all been making some incredible stuff happen, from foodbank collections, to walking cricket for the elderly, big cleans ups and more. Why not check out upcoming sessions and join them?

We also gave a big welcome to Vita who came along to her very first group run - great to meet you Vita!

We met up in a busy Hyde Park with no sign of the predicted storm, and found a place away from the army of bikes streaming in for our warm up. We tested our brains as well as muscles which was a challenge - and resulted in some 'interesting' high fives! After a quick discussion about our chosen super power (super strength rated very highly, although you all already seem to have that) we set off for the task.

The Abbey Centre in Victoria is an important resource for local people, offering support in the form of hot food, legal advice, somewhere warm, therapy and classes. Our job was outside in the garden, so we made our way through the building and divided up the jobs.

Laura and Catarina got straight in making sandwiches for rough sleepers, Waleed, MJ and Hussan grabbed gloves and cleared the weeds (I think that geranium survived!), Kush gave everything a good water, Ciaran and Vita were in charge of clearing and sweeping, Emma and Lydia were on banister and fire escape duty, while Jacob worked with photographer Simon to capture some fantastic shot for the evening. You can see the whole gallery here - what a lot of happy, energetic faces!

Before long the jobs were done and the place was transformed - brilliant work everybody. That wasn't all though - there was just enough time for a fitness challenge which saw us test our balancing skills. Turns out they were very impressive, even when I threw in a few dynamic exercises to test you all! We finished off the night with a leg burner in the form of a progressive squat.

While some of us went for a delicious curry, others opted to add a few miles, and we also managed to catch the Under One Sky Team to hand over the carefully prepared sandwiches. They had run out of food to hand out to rough sleepers, so we were there in the nick of time!

Great to see you all last night, thanks for all the effort and smiles. We run as a group every single Tuesday in Westminster at the same time. Next week we're off to the oldest youth club in the world to help out - would love to see you there!