It was a bumper night in every respect last night—with so much to celebrate across the group. A huge shoutout to everyone who made the trip over to Cluj, racing everything from 10km right up to the marathon—seriously impressive stuff and plenty of great race reports filtering back. Add to that, there was lots of exciting news buzzing around the group, and it really did feel like a special evening from the outset.

We were also delighted to welcome Eleonora to her very first session—fantastic to have you with us! And big news - Eleonora is the brilliant new Area Activator for Elephant and Castle —watch this space for upcoming runs there.

A mighty group of 21 runners and cyclists assembled, ready to do good, and for the first time in months we made our return to Chiswick House. With the sun shining and temperatures firmly in the “is this really April?” zone, all the ingredients were there for a cracking session.

We made our way down to the estate garden, where we met Freya, one of the gardeners, and followed the cart down stacked with dozens of watering cans. We got straight to it, hydrating the new plants and giving everything a much-needed drink in the warm weather.

We then got stuck into digging up stubborn ivy roots and tackling plenty of weeding. Great teamwork all round.

With the task complete, it was onto fitness. Taking full advantage of the dry ground, we powered through a continuous 6-minute core blast. No breaks, no mercy—just solid effort from everyone. Strong work!

Then it was time to head back, easing out the legs with some well-earned stretches and soaking up the last of the evening sun.

Looking ahead, we’ve got a big weekend coming up: Maxime will be leading his very first session on Saturday—heading to Popesfield Allotments this Saturday

And next week, we’ll be teaming up with Friends of Turnham Green for more good deeds in green spaces 💚

The clocks went back and it was a joyfully light evening at The Strand on The Green School. The brighter evenings weren’t the only thing to celebrate though, as our favourite bearded Frenchman Augustin reached his centurion of good deeds and earned his wings (and a shiny new GG top)!

Thirteen is lucky for some, as Claire from the school has an assortment on tasks for the XIII group of GoodGymmers who were out on Wednesday evening.

Group one, made up of Alan, Ariane, Divy, Michelle and Sara went with a hop (well it Easter this weekend), skip (literally) and a jump (into said skip) to the school grounds to help move a load of garden waste into a big skip, which had unfortunately arrived later than planned. Just like the evening sky, Team MAD AS made light work of filling up the big yellow vessel.

The second assembly, consisting of Chris, Florian, Fran and the King of the Wings himself (Gus) were helping in the nursery garden to clear back overgrown ivy, which was taking over the walls and trellises. Once chopped off, the MAD AS gang were around to support with dumping the waste into their skip.

Finally, the third throng of Alana, Breda, Emily and Lucy were on paint duty. Armed with brushes, rollers and pots and trays of fresh ‘school custard yellow’ coloured paint, the awesome foursome got to work covering the rest of the playground walls and starting a second coat from a job started a few weeks back on a previous task.

Gus with his wings wasn’t the only thing flying, as time goes by quickly when you’re having fun. Three tasks completed, it was time two leave one very impressed Claire and make our way to the pub, to celebrate the only way GoodGym Hounslow know - with cake.

Congrats Gus on your achievements. We’ll be back next week at Chiswick House for another episode of GoodGym Hounslow. See you then!

It was a unseasonably chilly night in Hounslow last night, and after a day of hail showers, it didn't make for the most inviting conditions for an outdoor group session. But there was a job to be done, and Team GoodGym turned up to do it!

The task was an important one - brightening up Turnham Green and improving its biodiversity. Thanks to the Friends group, there had been a load of cowslip seedlings getting big and strong in Jan's attic, waiting for the moment they could be planted in the wild. With the warmer weather arriving (not much sign of it last night though!), their time had come.

Armed with headtorches, spades and enthusiasm, a hardy team of 12 began planting with speed and efficiency.

It took record time to get them all in the ground, and task owner Jan had this to say:

"The team were great this evening! 145 little cowslips planted in half an hour. Big thank you to everyone!"

Fantastic work everybody, another job that will improve the lives of the local community in the bag.

Next week (we're off to finish the painting job we started at Strand on the green) [https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/finishing-up-the-painting-at-strand-on-the-green-school)

Congratulations to everyone who ran the Big Half, we had PB's, first time half marathoners, people that had a great few hours running the streets of London - you all did amazing!! Most importantly it was fantastic to have GG support along the route - thank you!

I treated us to a shorter group run this evening so our tired legs didn't have to run so far (I can't say I've been so kind for the Monday after London marathon...).

It was lovely to see some new faces at tonight's group run - welcome, hope you had a great evening of doing good. But also we got to see some familiar faces return after a couple of years - welcome back!

I don't know if it was the talk of tombs or the post-group run social but there were a lot of red tshirts gathering outside Glass Mill. We did a quick warm up to stretch our legs before heading to St Marys Church.

On arrival Marion gave us a quick run through of tasks that needing tackling this evening, these included:

• sweeping the leaves to reveal the alium bulbs, these end up taking over the space in spring
• clearing the leaves from the paths
• clearing the ivy from the tombs
• scraping the moss off the tombs
• moving the giant bags of leaves over to the other side of the church yard

The tombs were looking a lot cleaner and less taken over by ivy when our time was up. Luckily we still had time for tea and biscuits in the church - thanks so much Marion!

We ended the evening with a lovely social at Levante to celebrate our recent achievements.