We headed to Tonge Moor UCAN centre this week to start the tidy up of an overgrown community garden.

Laurence tackled the hundreds of rotting apples and pears that had gathered under the fruit trees 🍏🍐 while Rowan started on the litter and weeds.

45 minutes later, we'd made a noticeable difference and started to see the potential of this once glorious garden.

We'll be back again next soon to make some more progress and get one step closer to returning it to its former glory!

Rowan, Jane and Laurence headed to Longsight Park this week to support the Friends of Longsight & Harwood Park with shifting 5 tonnes of soil into some new flower beds.

The trio, supported by the Friends of the Park group put in 60 minutes of hard effort, shovelling wheelbarrow loads of earth and tipping them into the newly created flower beds. A classic GoodGym mission with some big movements and a satisfying result. Check out the results above 👀

Next week we'll be back out delivering The Bolton Post, why not come and join us? Sign up here: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sign-up/delivering-free-community-newspapers-425e5725-17bf-40c7-aab5-23ff727e517b

*GoodyGym 1 - 0 Himalayan Balsam *

The battle of the Balsam commenced this week as Laurence, Amna and Rowan headed to the banks of the River Tonge to tackle some of the invasive Himalayan Balsam in support of Bolton Green Umbrella and The Big Balsam Bash.

After discovering some beautiful new paths en-route to the task, the three musketeers spent 45 minutes weeding and snapping the plants whilst enjoying birdsong and the smell of bread from the nearby Warburtons bakery, before walking back to Bolton town centre in the sunshine.

As Wednesday evenings go, this was a mighty satisfying one!

Part mission, part therapy - this week we headed to Devonshire Road Primary School to help with the demolition of a portacabin style classroom.

There were crow bars and lump hammers galore as we spent 75 minutes smashing walls to pieces - the very best way to end a Wednesday!

Sumaiya joined us for her first GoodGym session and we were also supported by David, Mumtaz, Laurence, Ken and Hannah - making this one of most attended sessions to date!

Next week we'll be returning to for some more demolition and also doing a bit of balsam bashing - be sure to sign up for a duo of highly satisfying missions!

The sun was shining, the birds were singing and the GoodGymers were grafting as 5 of us headed to Wild & Fruity Community Garden to support with a whole load of tasks.

Well done to Hannah for joining in with her very first GoodGym session 👏

It was great to welcome back Steph for her second time as well as regulars Mark and Laurence too.

Between us we shifted a load of concrete flags, painted a shed and moved a whole load of earth to level some ground.

Another hugely satisfying and productive 60 minutes of effort helping a brilliant local organisation, thanks to Leesa and Trish for having us along, we'll definitely be back for more ASAP!