Five GoodGymmers met at the Spencer Denney Centre in Windsor for another round of leafletting for Age Concern.

The leaflets were promoting the centre’s activities for older people and their upcoming fundraising events — this time a Bingo/Quiz and a Bubbles and Baubles session! They sound like great fun and everyone is welcome.

The team set off up the hill with a couple of target roads requested by the Centre. We quickly split into groups: Sol and Juli tackling the right side, Jess on the left, and Anne‑Laure and Angela looping around the crescent. We moved at lightning pace, seeking out letterboxes, dodging doggies and mastering front gates. Within just half an hour, 150 leaflets were dispatched and we headed back to the Centre!

We hope the local community supports the Spencer Denney Centre so it can continue its brilliant work supporting older people in the area.

Seven GoodGymmers met Michelle from the Craft Coop at the Community Centre to begin work on their monumental poppy display for Remembrance Day.

Michelle shared the story behind the installation: the Craft Coop are creating multiple panels of knitted and crocheted poppies that will be hung from a church in Windsor as a flowing memorial. Many people — including some GoodGymmers — have already contributed poppies, and the team have collected around 12,000 so far.

All of these poppies need to be attached to netting panels that will form a dramatic “river of poppies.” The panel we worked on tonight was a test piece, used to calculate the final weight of the installation (including when wet) to ensure it can be safely displayed.

Shelia, Hannah, Jen, Jess and Anne‑Laure took on the task of attaching poppies under Michelle’s guidance. Each poppy needed to be sewn securely to the canvas without overlapping too much — a chance for the Craft Coop to refine the best layout and attachment method for the final panels.

Meanwhile, Amy and Deepti were entrusted with creating the two large feature poppies that will be included in the installation. They stitched together pre‑cut plastic canvas, added the black centre, and began attaching the red pom‑poms. These oversized poppies are already looking fantastic and will be real showstoppers once finished.

It was satisfying to make visible progress, but this project will take many volunteers and many hours to bring to life. Keep your eyes peeled — we’ll be putting on more sessions to help this beautiful memorial become a reality.

Five fearless GoodGymers took on a task at Nature's Haven to remove some shrubs to make way for some raised beds. The team approached the task with gusto, cutting back the branches and digging out the roots. We tried many different techniques for root removal - there was the spade technique, the boot-technique, the hand-technique, the twisting-technique and the breaking-the-fork technique. Each rootball removed was accompanied by whoops of delight. By the end of the session we had cleared a good area of ground and produced a large pile of branches ready for shredding. We were pleased with how much we had achieved and taskowners Claire and Aleks were delighted too. Great work by Anne-Laure, Katie, Roberta, Sol and Sheila

Three merry musketeers ventured into the kingdom of Riverside hub to fight the growing weeds. And oh joy! how fun this quest was! Nothing beat the satisfying feeling of pulling the vines and the various weeds from the ground. The 3 valiant musketeers conquered the task with such ease and agility that they got rewarded with sweet and juicy strawberries. Before departing the kingdom, they had time to plant some nice smelling lavender. The 2 tasks were done but more adventure is to be done in the kingdom of Riverside Hub.