On a balmy Monday evening six GoodGymers helped prepare Stepney Bank Stables for this weekend's Ouseburn Festival.

Louise undoubtedly worked the hardest, mopping the floor with cold water and no detergent. It did definitely look better afterwards than it did before! Scott rearranged the chaotic helmets, while put the dozens of pairs of boots into size order on their racks.

Meanwhile Eleanor, Aimee and Dan took the lead with transporting the horse-related books upstairs, then arranging them in a perfectly colour-coordinated way on the bookshelves.

Please visit the Ouseburn Festival at the weekend if you can, and we'll see you next Monday to pick up the litter that didn't end up in the local bins.

On a pleasant Saturday morning, three GoodGymers helped Newcastle Parks and Allotments with some weeding in Elswick Park, just managing to get finished before a little rain shower.

The before and after photographs tell their own story. The park rangers were particularly happy that the stone circle at the top of the steps was cleared of weeds.

Cups of tea were drunk before the park rangers moved onto their next task at Nunsmoor Park.

Please come and join us on Monday as we help prepare Stepney Bank Stables for the Ouseburn Festival.

Our third leafleting task for The Ouseburn Festival was a success on a balmy Thursday night. The cats of Heaton again witnessed us busily zigzagging the terraced streets as we delivered our message.

Please join Paula on Sunday morning as we look to complete our mission.

We were back at Sandown Allotments today, supporting Big Local with their community space.

Many hands made light work of the giant pile of mulch as we spread it out, rakes, spades, barrows and chat.

Having bested the summit of Mount Mulch in record time, Coretta put us to work on the planters to get them ready for the not-quite-entirely-wild-flower garden they are going to create.

Jobs done, the team took a victory lap around the coffee table and had a chat with Chris and Christine who are Saturday morning regulars.

Great day, brilliant place and was fab to have a new face amongst the bunch with Harvey joining us before he heads off to see Sam Fender!

On a mildly moist Monday evening Aimee and Richard set off from Stepney Bank Stables, armed with several hundred leaflets to promote the Ouseburn Festival on July 5th and 6th.

The destination was Heaton and its array of terraced streets. The plan was that this would hopefully prove a quick way to dispatch all of the leaflets through letterboxes, and so it proved. So much so that the task was completed quicker than anyone expected.

Local resident Keith was very keen to say hello and was told all about the Ouseburn Festival and GoodGym's work in the local area. Keith was the only one to receive two leaflets tonight, being given a GoodGym flyer too. As promised, you got a mention in the report Keith, so I hope you looked us up and are reading this!

We'll be back at Stepney Bank Stables next Monday to attempt to deliver the rest of the Ouseburn Festival flyers. Please come and join us!