Five Good Gymers, not Famous, braved an early autumnal evening to My First Steps Nursery, seeking adventure.

On arrival we were greeted by Cathy and given a very quick briefing of tonight’s task: tidy the outside area and possibly weed. Left to our own devices we used our imagination and set to. Kate and Jane started picking up all the larger items casually strewn across the green, however there was treasure to be had! Silver spoons and plastic spades were our bounty which we passed to our team members to assist them with their weeding. I said we had to be imaginative, and in lieu of any adult tools, we had to make do. Ruth did a fabulous job in the baby garden, though the weeds were unfortunately a match for the plastic spade/spoon by the end of the session, it didn’t make it. Meanwhile Richard and Tanya were messing around in the mud kitchen, though not making mud pies for us to enjoy after the task, just a general tidy and weed where silver spoons were also going for the price of gold!

We managed to remove two tubs worth of weeds, and the general area looked a lot tidier, therefore I’d say mission accomplished

Today we did our bit to clean up the environment for a future generation.

Specifically, we did some general garden/playground maintenance for one of our local nursery schools.

First we had to clear away some fallen and rotting apples.

Next, we we given some bags of top soil with which we topped up some old tyres to act as borders and/or stepping stones.

Those were the headline tasks, but being GoodGym we ticked them off in record time, so were given various other tasks. Various areas of weeding, tidying away toys, sweeping, Rachel even managed to fit in some carpet laying.

Congrats!

To Rachel for good deed number 50. We'll look out for the black GoodGym shirt in the near future! 👀

Meyrick volunteered to lead a Group Run across town for what we’re celebrating as his one hundredth good deed for GoodGym! 🎉🥳🚀

Big congratulations to Meyrick, who as our resident space aficionado hopefully appreciates the personalised pun for this rare astronomical event!

The pair of us met at the leisure centre to boldly go and run along the river to Twerton in order to help tidy the outdoor play space at First Steps Bath Opportunity Playgroup, where we also met with Jane.

Our mission was to tidy up the outdoor space - a space mission in other words - and clear away the scattering of toys and sweep the area so that the kiddies have a slightly nicer environment to return to on Monday.

We finished up, had a sneaky quick play in the treehouse, and went for a celebratory coffee.

Here's to the next hundred missions, Meyrick (or in other words Live long and prosper! 🖖).

Jane, Emily, Rachel and Sam met for a final session to finish painting the fabulous rainbow fence at First Steps in Twerton.

They may now also have some rainbow coloured paving! But overall the final look really brightens up the space and makes it a fun place for the children to enjoy the outdoors.

Thanks and well done to everyone who has helped out over the last few sessions to complete the project!

4 runners spent Thursday evening continuing to brighten up the outdoor space at First Steps nursery - a job that was started a few weeks ago and rain has delayed play ever since!

Jane, Allie, Emily and Sam picked up the paint brushes to continue to quest to find the end of the rainbow (fence!)

We left with more paint on us than on the fence (particularly in Jane's hair!) but it is looking great and after one more session, the space will be fully transformed.

A group of us ran out to Twerton First steps nursery to brighten up their outside space. We spent the evening painting then fence around their play area.

We chose to go for what can only be described as a 'haphazard rainbow effect'. Although we didn't have any major spillages (which was impressive as there was a bit of slope we had to lunge/squat on!) there was more paint on my shoe when I left than when we started!

We look forward to coming back next week to finish the other half of the fence!