Who says Tuesday evenings have to be ordinary? Certainly not at WhatIf, where another glorious summer gathering served up all the ingredients for a perfect community evening: delicious homemade pies 🥧, mountains of pasta 🍝, cakes that mysteriously disappeared at an alarming rate 🍰😋, plenty of refreshments ☕🥤, live music 🎶, creative workshops 🎨, and enough neighbourliness ❤️ to warm even the least summery of British evenings.

Melanie and Laura rolled up their sleeves for the upcycling workshop, transforming old vinyl banners into mini grow bags. 🌱♻️ It's safe to say those banners have had quite the career change—from advertising to agriculture! 😂

There was another reason to celebrate too. 🎉 Melanie has finally found a volunteering community that feels like home, bringing together friendly faces 🤗, meaningful projects 💚, and a welcome boost for mental wellbeing. We couldn't be happier for her! 💙

For those of us who remember the winter months ❄️ (Mandy), it was amazing to see just how much the site has flourished. Back then, it was our cosy indoor refuge for GoodGym sessions 🏃‍♀️; now it's a thriving community food park bursting with colour 🌸, conversation 💬, music 🎵, workshops 🛠️, and growing things everywhere you look. The only thing growing faster than the vegetables 🥬🍅 seems to be the sense of community. ❤️

Good turnout this morning, with 467 participants at event number 304 at Fletcher Moss parkrun. 97 completing their first parkrun here, with 16 completing their first ever parkrun 👏

Hazel, Laura, and Ben joined 19 others to volunteer for the event. Hazel marshalled at point 7 to keep runners on track to the finish. Laura was on hand with Flo for handing out finish tokens at the extended finish funnel. Ben ran the show as RD with thankfully no incidents or problems with the results, so plain sailing.

Great to have sign language support for the briefings (even with a temperamental speaker...) and lots of parkwalkers!

With temperatures reaching 30°C over the past couple of days, we opted not to run tonight and instead just walked to deliver the second set of leaflets advertising Together Trust's festival on Saturday 4th July.

Thanks to those that joined, next sessions for Together Trust leaflets are Tuesday 16th and Tuesday 23rd June 🙌