This morning the early birds hit a double effort to kickstart the day! A pre-office workout, helping to pack away the winter night shelter and then setting up the Open Table and all before 9am 💪.

It’s a rewarding transition, moving from the quiet wrap-up of the night's shelter to the bustling preparation of a welcoming community lunch. Whether it was hauling mattresses, moving chairs or shifting tables, everything was handled with ease, well done team.

The morning momentum continued as we helped set up for the Open Table. With the main tasks finished ahead of schedule, Jon took the opportunity to tackle window cleaning duty. The beautiful sunshine outside made the job much easier, and the hall was left gleaming and ready for guests.

With extra hands this morning, the Open Table setup was finished in record time so one of the team found extra jobs and headed outside to clean the windows. There was even time for coffee.

Today’s setup for Open Table was a star-studded affair! We had to work around a photoshoot in the space prepping what we could while the cameras snapped. Once they wrapped it was all hands on deck to finish up and get the tables back in place and the room ready for the lunch guests. Thanks to the team for their patience.

Kicking off the first monthly session of the year supporting the Martin Way Methodist church community garden team with some much needed winter maintenance jobs.

Three GoodGymers returned to Martin Way Methodist Church on Monday to finish off a deep clean of the church's kitchen which fellow GoodGymers started last week.

The kitchen is used by the Open Table, a pay as you feel community cafe open to diners every Wednesday, and will be extra busy with the opening of a Winter Night Shelter every Tuesday night from now until March.