Tonight we ran from Heart down to St Stephen's Church Hall to once again weed and tidy up the garden for Kirkstall Valley Development Trust.

We cleared the garden a few weeks ago so we just did a general tidy up to keep the area tidy.

Kirkstall Valley Development Trust is an inclusive Community Benefit Society whose aims are to support the local community of Kirkstall. Working from two locations – a community hub, where the food pantry is located, and also from the farm – they are run by a team of dedicated staff and volunteers who run activities, events, campaigns and services to benefit the community and bring people together.

It was nice to meet & welcome newcomers Kate & Chris this evening; welcome to GoodGym Leeds :)

We even got home in time to support England in the football for those who wanted to.

Good work team!

Tonight, 10 GoodGymers headed down to St Stephen's Church Hall to clear their garden. We haven't visited here since last summer and couldn't believe how overgrown it was again! We thought that we'd pulled all the weeds up from the roots last year, but unfortunately they were back in full force! As it was a big group, we got to work & cleared more or less all of the front garden. We'll be back in a few weeks to do the back garden.

Thanks to Helen for leading a warm down at the end.

Welcome to Leah & Ting who came for their first session tonight!

Tonight 3 GoodGymers had a run down to St Stephen's Church Hall in Kirkstall to dig up the weeds & plant bulbs ready for spring.

We've gardened here throughout the summer & it's all looking much better. It will be nice to have some flowers growing in the spring!

Tonight 4 GoodGymers went back to St Stephen's Church Hall in Kirkstall to clear the weeds once again. That's the problem with weeds...they keep growing back!!

We got lots done and had a good chin wag whilst working. We'll done gang!

Tonight we went back to St Stephen's Church Hall to get more of their overgrown garden cleared. We cleared many many prickly plants....how exactly do prickles get on the inside of your gardening gloves?! We got stuck in and cleared a large area, improving what we did last week. It's now ready for planting. Well done team!

This week we went back to Kirkstall Valley Farm.

We had 3 seperate areas to tend to, so split into pairs

Katie and Nik got to work planting broccoli, whilst Helen and Shannen began by clearing weeds around the broccoli, and Tom and Rob cleared up some weeds further along the plot, around the kale.

We worked away, with the speed of 100 scouts (not just 7!) - Goodgym knows how to get the job done! We admired our work, before promptly starting to cover it again.

Tom and I got talking about Endure24, and about how good it would be to enter a team from GG Leeds... anyone interested? https://www.endure24.co.uk/events/leeds/entry/

Well done everyone - 6km run and lots of work done! We headed to The Golden Beam for a catch-up before parting ways.