There's no "I" in team.

But there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team, and... wait, what am I talking about?

A team of 7 from GoodGym Bath braved any potential zombie apocalypses and headed out to the lovely village of Englishcombe just outside town in order to paint a shed for the Life Project.

Our contact, Rich, gave us all the necessary tools and a couple of buckets of brownish (let's call it fawn for the sake of the pun...) paint, and set us to work on two sides of his organisation's outbuilding.

We sanded, brushed and painted, even spruced up the bird box - and finished the task just in the nick of time to head to the Winchester for a nice cold pint.

Anyone fancy a Cornetto?

7 runners turned out at the Life Project at Monksdale Road Allotments to help reclaim some land lost to nature.

The Life Project has been given a new area of allotment to tend to and we were tasked with getting rid of the overgrown grass and weeds and turning over the soil so that the area could be used for planting.

We started off all digging over the same area but were soon wary of a fork-toe collision and so split into teams with Meyrick, Max, Mark and Sam tackling the main area, and Emily and Rachel clearing a small area near a stream at the edge of the site. Ruth was on a mission to scrape paint from some raised planters to prep them ready for painting.

Due to some much needed rain since our last visit, it was much easier to dig over the soil and we made speedy work of it, so our host found another area for the 3 M's and Sam to work on, whilst Rachel and Emily moved to the planters to assist Ruth.

The space is a fantastic resource for the Life Project and is teeming with wildlife - some very happy robins enjoyed the worms and grubs we were digging up and we even had an encounter with some slow worms!

We hope that the visitors to the Life Project can enjoy the new spaces we have created and look forward to going back soon.

On a beautiful sunny day, 5 Goodgymers met in an allotment in Bath. The allotment space was dedicated to the Life Project a charity that helps disabled people in Bath.

We were shown an area of land which hadn't been used for years. It was overgrown with grass and becomes quite inaccessible in the summer. Our task was to clear the area so that wild flower seed could be planted. Rachel, Mark, Jer and Jane took on the challenge.

It appeared quite easy on the surface. However with the first strike of the spade to the ground the team found that the grass had other ideas. With limited rain in the past month the ground was like stone. The spades vibrated off the ground and the grass stood proud. They soon adopted a new technique, and some moved to forks and eventually they managed to begin to clear the area. It took a whole two hours of effort and sweat to clear just half of the area for four of the volunteers. Well done team!

Helen had a different task. Due to a bad back, Helen's job was to sand down the planters so that they would be ready for painting. An easy task it appeared on the surface, but too was not as it seemed. For Helen was given a trowel for the job :) A few hours later and with the help of Jer and Rachel, we cleared four planters of paint ready for the next time.

The team did a fantastic job for the charity, ate Jaffa cakes and got fit in the process! What's not to love.