This week’s group run was a full-body charge. We powered up our fitness and helped Farley Hill residents save on their energy bills. In celebration of This Girl Can’s “Lift the Curfew” campaign and marking the seasonal shift from Diwali’s glow to Halloween’s shadows, we lit up the night with colourful flashing wristbands to stay visible and vibrant.

We jogged out from the town centre, climbing the gentle incline toward the foot of the Dallow Downs. Our fitness challenge for the evening was sprint-walk intervals between streetlights, pushing up the mighty Winsdon Hill with serious leg wattage and heart-thumping effort. It was a high-voltage workout that sparked plenty of team spirit.

At the summit, we paused to recharge and admire the panoramic views. Spotting a dumped mattress dimming the landscape’s beauty, we moved it to the roadside and reported it to the council. First good deed done and civic pride fully powered.

With our batteries restored, we switched gears to our main task. We delivered flyers for Groundwork’s Green Doctor scheme, an outreach effort to help households facing fuel poverty find practical ways to reduce energy consumption and lighten the load of winter bills.

As we lit up the streets, our glowing wristbands caught the eye of curious locals. Their warm encouragement boosted our morale and added a spark to our steps.

We wrapped up the evening with one last look over the Dallow Downs and cruised back into town feeling connected, uplifted and fully charged. One friendly shopkeeper even gifted us each an orange to keep our energy levels up for the final leg. It was a juicy boost of natural fuel. It may have been a dark night, but our lights and our purpose made it brilliantly bright.

This week we ran and walked to Holy Trinity Church to give the porch a good cleaning. We brushed out the spider webs, cleaned the windows, cleaned and polished all the woodwork too.

As well as that we started preparing for a painting job on an interior wall that has peeling paint as a result of an old roof leak. We gave the loose paint a good scraping to get it off the wall. We made a good start but it definitely needs another go before it can be painted. we spent as long clearing up our mess as we did making it! We'll be back for another go.

We descended in All Saints like a dusting SWAT team according to one of the church wardens. Arriving at 2pm we had just an hour and a half to sweep the hall and get the tables and chairs out and take down flags left over from a previous celebration. And then it was on to cleaning, dusting and sweeping the main church. And proving that GoodGymers don't mess about we had all the jobs on the list ticked off in record time. The church was transformed and ready for Fr David's farewell service and celebration. It was lovely to catch up with Pam (one of our GoodGym tribe who has moved away) and to see GoodGym friends Richard from Club 61, Rev Grace from Hockwell Community, Sanjeev from the Gurudwara who all commented on how helpful Goodgym has been to them. So well done to the team today, but to all of the Luton Goodgymers who gave helped in so many projects across the town.