After burning through an impressive pile of woodchip in a single session in March at Lammas Enclosure Community Orchard, the bar was raised for GoodGymers: the woodchip delivery that followed almost doubled the size of the heap! We’d like to say that the number of GoodGymers at the Tuesday sessions also doubled. Well, we are not there yet, but last night we came with a strong team of eight to destroy the new pile, and - more importantly - refresh the path in the enclosure and the Forest School seating area by spreading fresh woodchip.

A range of runners, cyclists and walkers made their way to Walpole Park to help pick up the tools for the task. Sevan, who led the task, Conor and Kash ran from Ealing Broadway, Jo and James cycled, and Marie, Chris and Anna walked to the task. Marie made a big comeback after a break from GoodGym, combining the woodchipping session with plenty of walking for her step challenge - we’re sure she’ll smash it!

While pushing wheelbarrows offered a perfect way to get more steps in the day, raking and loading woodchip into barrows targeted different muscle groups.

”The shovelling is a proper upper body workout!”

With a dedicated team of GoodGymers hungry for an impactful activity, only the number of wheelbarrows available stood in the way of finishing off the woodchip pile. In less than an hour, a thick layer of woodchip was covering the path from the orchard gate to the circle of logs in the Forest School, which was also neatly surrounded by woodchip. Great work, everyone!

Next week, we’re heading 2km East of Ealing Broadway to tackle the litter haunting an alleyway between West Acton and Park Royal. Sign up now!

Thanks to Claire for linking us up with St Peter's for tonight's task. With the cold nights setting in, we were all glad to join an indoor task (and the church itself was pretty warm). We've got a great team at GoodGym Ealing and they set about sweeping, dusting and polishing to get the place looking spick and span, and smelling fresh, fresh, fresh!

The transformation complete, we hit the road. Now, not only did Claire make tonight happen, but, on our way home, she spotted Mars in the sky...and then Jupiter. Ben leapt into action and confirmed this with a handy app (nice).

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde

Today was the first installment of our mission to put signs up ahead of Ealing Half Marathon this weekend.

Marie said 'Loved the mission and the company 🎊'

We had great fun and it really made us feel like part of this amazing community event!