Today’s mission turned into the perfect girls’ day out.

Rachel, Emily, Manasa and Levita spent the morning at the British Heart Foundation in Kingston, unpacking and assembling furniture, including two mirror cabinets, a coffee table, and an executive chair. It was such a fun, hands-on experience, and we supported each other throughout whenever questions came up. Teamwork really made the whole process even more enjoyable. We wrapped up the session with a well-deserved café stop, where a few of us relaxed over coffee and some lovely girly chatter, the perfect ending to a productive and heartwarming day.

GoodGym turned up in force to Elm Road Park having run, walked and cycled their way there.

Upon arrival we were provided with safety glasses, masks, scrapers, chisels and sandpaper and were spread out along a concrete fence.

The task was to remove any last pieces of a mosaic, scrape off the loose paint and sand back the surface so that it was ready for painting. The paint was stubborn in some areas and we were moved around as each section progressed until each panel was quite smooth.

We will return next week when the rain will have hopefully stopped to finish any more preparation work and do some painting so everything is ready for a new mural.

On a beautiful Spring morning Levita, Sabir and Claire met in Canbury Gardens where the GoodGym flowerbed had sprung into Spring. It was full of daffodils, hyacinths and tulips. However some were a little hidden under the mountains of leaves and shrubs. Sabir got to work pruning all the salvias whilst Levita and Claire pick up piles of leaves. For a smallish flowered we cleared a lot of green waste.

Just over an hour later the flowers shone brightly in the Sun and after a quick photo shoot we headed our separate ways to enjoy the weekend.

It was lovely to visit a new venue in Kingston for Tuesday's week's task, for all that we've all walked past Hestia's office without knowing it was there. Hestia has an enormous site up a few flights of stairs on Eden Street where it runs the Good Energy Club, a community project created to help people with mental illness or issues with low levels of mental wellbeing through physical and social activities.

There were acres of surfaces to wipe, around table tennis tables, music rooms, conference rooms and offices, dealt with by cloth from Anna, Tom, Rachel, Jana, Emily, Laurel, Sabir, Sekar and Jonathan.

Meanwhile Luke and Marcos performed heroics with a hoover across never-ending carpets as Dave, Louise and Levita refused to allow the thorough cleaning of the kitchen to beat them.

Perhaps the highlight of the whole evening was our host John, who supplied us not only with good humour but Pepsi Max, sweets and biscuits, and might even become our newest GoodGym recruit. While some of the gang headed off for a well-deserved drink for our monthly social at The Albion, we'll all look forward to coming back to a great spot very soon.