Today, Levita and I headed down to a Meet and Greet event with Kingston’s local Councillors and a ton of brilliant voluntary groups from across the borough. It was the perfect chance to get out there and chat about all the ways GoodGym can lend a hand to organisations doing amazing work in our community!

It was great to catch up with some of our long-standing partners. Always a treat to see the familiar faces at Staywell, Kingsgate Food Pantry, KVA’s Surplus to Supper Hub, Save the World, and Refugee Action Kingston.

We also got to mingle with plenty of new groups to brainstorm future team-ups and hand out leaflets. We connected with:

• Kingston Association for the Blind
• The London Buddy Scheme
• Learn English at Home (LEAH)
• Kingston Carers Network
• The Kingston Society
• Malarum Ithayangal CIC Tamil Women’s Community Group
• Balance Support CIO
• Kingston Voluntary Action (KVA)
• Shine Bright UK
• Kingston Eco-Op
• Superhighways
• Connected Kingston
• Kingston Community Football

Whether we were convincing folks to lace up their trainers and join us for a run, or finding new ways our volunteers can help out local residents, it was such an inspiring day!

This evening Levita and myself welcomed Chris to the group . Before we all got stuck in ducking buckets in the Thames to refresh the soil around the produce In the community garden to continue to make it grow and produce lovely products for someone's table. It was a most enjoyable hour with much laughter and posing for photo''s, the chickens also strutted their stuff. I then also couldn't resist buying a plant to put in the Gg garden tommorow, it's vibrant colour spoke to me.

Bright and early we met at the Thames to revive the plants in the Gg plot. Much laughter was had, also problems solved as they arose. At goodgym no task is complete without a challenge, it's what we expect and keeps us on our toes.

Tonight Marie, Levita, Sabir and myself met to sink our buckets in the Thames to revive the plants in our goodgym bed. Mission accomplished, no wildlife tonight investigating but plenty of laughs, it seems pink is the colour

For the second time this week the bed needed its daily drink to cope with the unprecedented temperatures. Armed with the trusted wheelbarrows and new, shiny watering cans and buckets. 5 goodgymers set to work and hydrated the bed with plenty of water. See you all again on Friday.