Nine GoodGymers made their way to ARC Community Centre last night, meeting Amy and Autumn at their canal-side community garden in a mission to clear the decks — or rather, the beds — ready for a season of planting.

And what better way to celebrate Amy's 200th GoodGym session than with her hosting us!

Five of us ran there from Arsenal and joined another four there. The main task was clearing a long pile of dead shrubbery from along the fence, trying to fit it into two big garden waste sacks like a game of tetris. Louise put her sawing skills to the test, beelining it for the fattest of branches, while Deirdre fiercly attacked and bashed the overflowing bag of branches with a spade, and Mehmet and Luke demonstrated impressive feats of strength, hoisting a hefty railway sleeper into place to squash down the contents of the other bag. We're not as scary a bunch as that sounds...

Steph Ducat carefully dug out burdock and prepared the ground at the end of the garden for a tree that will be planted later this week. And over at the wildflower roundabout, Caitlin, Da Marcus, and Deirdre made a (small) start on weeding.

Looking forward to returning in a few weeks to continue with their great work...

Five GoodGymers turned out to help advertise The Shooting Star Hospices Christmas tree collection service through delivering leaflets.

Meeting at the Landmarks Art Centre in Teddington, we welcomed Anne , who was taking part in her first ever Good Gym Task! While Amy was visiting from Good Gym Hackney.

We divided the leaflets up and split up into two groups, to cover as many roads within the Teddington area as possible, while at the same time still being able to appreciate the tree-mendous decorations still on show.

A job well done! This the first of several Good Gym missions advertising the Christmas Tree collection service between Christmas and new year, with different starting points across the Richmond Borough.

12 GoodGymers ran 1k and shovelled 32 tonnes of mulch to reach our pathway goal!

Thank you to everyone who could make and wanted to make my last session as Group leader.

Starting the session with a running loop around the perimeter of London Fields to get us rolling for the session ahead!

Delighted that after about 10 sessions of graft on the pathway we reached out target and the conservation area now has a great mulch pathway which will allow year round accessibility to the educational and park users as they get to use the pathway to experience the bio-diverse area.

Some fresh mulch was very useful and having Peter fixing 3 barrows, and having an extra barrow really boosted productivity!! An amazing cheer squad from some well hydrated locals helled our push along the pathway together with some quality workout tunes to keep us in rhythm as we shoveled.

Great team work, stories, graft and laughs made for a very productive hour of GG action!!

With the pathway complete we headed off to hang out as a GG group one last time! Awesome to remember the best and worst tasks we had done together over the last nearly decade of GoodGym action.

Its been a blast to hang out with such a fun group both tonight and everyone of the weeks over the last 9 years!

Always Love

Joel

Wetting the Baby tree's heads to celebrate Vinney reaching 50 GoodGym GoodDeeds!!

Helping our friends at the Stoke Newington common user group who keep all the good stuff going strong on the common.

After our weeding efforts a few weeks ago the shrubs on the mound and baby trees were looking health but thirsty. so after grabbing the trolley and filling up 120 liters of water we hauled it first over to the mounds to water the shrubs then after a quick refill of the water over to the newly planted baby trees to keep them happy, healthy and hydrated!!

All complete we headed off to celebrate 50 GoodDeeds for the GG legend Vinney!!