Welcome to Scott for the first time this evening! Best of luck in the Media City Half Marathon this weekend 🏃‍♂️

This evening was our monthly foodbank run, to donate spare items to Manchester South-Central foodbank to go towards food parcels. With half term next week, there is often an increased demand, so we tried to squeeze a donation in. Some items donated included:

• Tinned tuna 🐟
• Tinned spaghetti 🍝
• Tinned veg 🥕🥒🥔
• UHT milk 🥛
• Rice 🍚
• Rice pudding
• Pasta sauce 🍝
• Tinned soup 🍲

We covered ~4.8 km in total, making our way through Hulme to the donation point at the big ASDA. On the way back, we had a quick tour via Man Met University and a loop near Manchester Central Convention Centre.

Peter and Ben shrugged off Blue Monday to set out and donate some much needed items for Manchester South-Central foodbank.

With lights and fresh GoodGym t-shirts, we set off, laden with bags of donations.

In all, there was several kilos of items mostly cans and non-perishables, including:

• peanut butter 🥜
• tinned veg 🥕🫛🥔🌽
• tinned fruit 🍑
• tinned fish 🐟 & meat 🍖
• rice pudding 🍮
• UHT milk 🥛

Much easier and lighter run on the way back 🏃‍♂️ hope the food donations go to good use 💪

Welcome to Sanjeev for your first GoodGym Manchester session!

This evening, we loaded up bags 🎒 with tins and other food items needed by Manchester South-Central foodbank for their winter parcels. It included:

• tinned fruit 🥭
• tinned veg 🥕🥔
• tinned tuna 🐟
• fruit juice 🍎
• UHT milk 🥛
• spaghetti 🍝
• beans 🫘
• pasta sauce
• cereal
• tea & coffee ☕️
• mince pies as a treat

Aided by the reverse advent calendar and their list, we did a pretty good job once we'd located the donation trolley.

With a much lighter load, the jog back via a Man Met campus was a bit smoother despite the heavy car traffic.

Great to see a new face and hope to see you again, Sanjeev!

Sam and Ben met up for another foodbank run to donate much needed items for MCR South-Central foodbank.

After a weekend of high winds and heavy rain, we were thankful for a relatively peaceful, albeit cold, Monday evening jog down to Hulme Asda, leaving behind a giant Santa in St Peter's Square.

Sam made the smart choice to run unladen and buy a basket load of tea/coffee and other goods for the donation point. Ben was less smart, lugging a heavy bag of tins and UHT milk from home to the drop-off...

In all, we filled the bottom of the trolley donation point, before heading back via Man Met University buildings and getting a picture with the Christmas Bee 🐝

With no new sign ups and others who couldn't make it, Ben combined a foodbank run to Hulme with a physical gardening session at Gorse Hill Green Rooms project.

Lots of tins of meats, fish, fruit, spaghetti, and beans plus oats, jam plus much more with extra plastic bags were dropped off at the donation point in Hulme Asda.

After that, it was a run to Gorse Hill to construct an archway, dig up some big ivy roots, and clear up a bit before their event on 25th October.

After a dry 2025, the rain has finally started in Manchester with plenty of puddles and sideways showers 🌧🌧🌧

Ben ran from Longsight to St Peter's Square for the meeting point then along to Asda Hulme for the foodbank drop off. Laden with a heavy bag 🎒 containing:

• tinned fruit (peaches and mandarins)
• tinned peas 🫛
• tinned mushrooms 🍄
• rice pudding
• instant coffee ☕️
• Apple juice 🍎
• UHT milk 🥛
• Strawberry 🍓 jam
• marmalade

Bit of a diversion on the way home, with a police corden - turns out this was the area of the stabbing in Manchester yesterday (BBC News - Teenager arrested after boy, 15, dies in Moss Side stabbing - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3y9v8e7eqo) which is a bit sad.

Hope to be at Gorse Hill next week, pending a working website.