it was an earlyish start at Wardown Park this morning as we'd been asked to help with putting up a marquee at 9am. Unfortunately the person in charge of the marquee didn't arrive until after 10. So Gill, Musa and Fayemi were detailed to get started on 3 small gazebos which were done in record time. Then the fun started with three marquee kits and very poor instruction. It was like a Mensa challenge combined with Task Master and The Crystal Maze. Poles were put out, repositioned, then moved again under the direction of the task owner who had at last appeared to guide us. Our 2 hours elapsed and we had the main framework sorted for their other volunteers to complete thus afternoon. Thanks to the team for helping them get sorted.

The Health Fest brought together loads of organisations with the aim of helping people look after their health. GoodGym was flying the flag, speaking to members of the public, making connections and getting people to play our energetic ring toss game!

It was a long day but we had a lot of helpers along to take turns talking and running the game.

6 Goodgymers joined the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara in Luton on session 4 of their curry cooking classes. Our team helped to clean pots and pans and annoyed a share of the culinary spoils too. We're always made to feel so welcome at the temple. We look forward to helping again at the next session

We had a team of eight join up with the other friends of People's Park to carry out a thorough cleanup of the park.

Weeks of nice weather had attracted lots of daytime park users who left all the usual litter scattered around the fields bushes and trees of this large site. There was also a fair bit of evidence of a night time economy, as well as the fly tipping of a few random items, this time a push chair, a freezer drawer, a walking stick and a children's ride on car thing were the main features of an impressive haul of 16 bags of rubbish!