Out bright and early to lend a hand at the weekly Morden parkrun, marshalling.

This morning was a great turn out for a Friday morning, where goodgymers from different areas (kingston,merton,richmond and ealing) joined the volunteers of The friends of Beverly Park to carry on clearing out the weeds around the roses. This is an ongoing project to get the Rose beds back to their former glory, with all their vibrant colours. Hats of to Sven for soldiering on after his fall in the Royal Park. Great progress was made and enjoyable as always when we all come together.

GoodGym Merton have been supporting Merton Garden Streets with a flexible mission: delivering bags of bulbs across the Raynes Park and South Wimbledon areas. Fitting in and around our members' schedules we've been making deliveries whilst on our morning runs, a lunchtime walks, or simply dropping off the bags while out on another errand. A huge thank you to the team who put the "bloom" in South Wimbledon and Raynes Park! It’s fantastic to support this initiative and help the community grow while getting those good deeds logged. We can’t wait to see the colourful results of our efforts next spring!

This week we returned for another home mission, supporting Mrs R with her garden. We were thrilled to arrive and see a real difference in the garden already, as Mrs R had been out doing some tidying herself. It's clear that the energy and motivation our visits provide are truly making an impact! This session, we focused on another challenging area, working hard to tackle stubborn brambles and other prickly plants. Our goal was to clear more space and make the area more manageable for Mrs R going forward.

This morning we attended tne Dons Local Action Group networking breakfast which was a great way to connect with some of the local community. We even had an impromptu moment on the mic, where we shared a brief few words about what we do.

We chatted with old contacts and made some great new connections, even picking up a couple of exciting potential requests for help! It was particularly encouraging to find that far more people have heard about GoodGym than when we attended last year.

Huge thanks to the Dons Local Action Group for hosting, it was a truly worthwhile start to the day!

Following a busy distribution session, the team worked quickly getting through everything in record time! The only thing slowing us down was finding a home for the seemingly endless crates of bread!

The team was back at Full Cycle tonight for another productive session. With so many tasks lined up, there was plenty to keep our wheels turning and our hands busy:

• Several bikes got a thorough clean (a job that always comes back around!).
• We reorganised huge piles of wheels, and removed stubborn tyres and inner tubes.
• A large pile of miscellaneous bike parts were meticulously sorted.

We powered through the jobs with time to spare for the highlight of the evening: celebrating a truly monumental achievement! Claire reaching her 200th good deed! What an amazing milestone. Your commitment to GoodGym is absolutely spoke-tacular and truly inspiring!

Well done to everyone for making the session such a success. We will be back again next month.