Yesterday, Anne and Harriet started to prepare the work to paint a beautiful mural “The Hive” on the wall of one of the school buildings. Vikki, the volunteer who organises the work for the school, was not sure whether teachers and/or parents would be able to come and help with the painting. Well, you just had to ask GoodGym: the response was fantastic!

This morning, from 9:00, seven GoodGymers from Woking: Agathe, Harriet, Kirsty Luan, Melanie, Stephanie and Anne, made their way to one of Knaphill schools. They were responding enthusiastically to the cry for help thrown at them yesterday.

Armed with bright coloured paints, brushes of different sizes and clear instructions from Vikki, we all went to task. We enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere and the opportunity to catchup with each other’s news after the summer while some of us could show their incredible artistic talent.

There is still more work to do, but today’s results are very promising! I believe there was a mention of adding some butterflies, ladybirds and dragonflies… which are the names of the different classes.

Vikki’s leadership is exceptional and GG Woking has already promised to come back to finish the mural, paint the other walls of the Hive. We will also give a hand to Mark, Vikki’s husband, who is preparing the foundations for a summer house, on the field. It will be used by the PTA and the Football clubs. Muscles will be required to put the summer house up and more painting will be involved then too!

Thank you GG Girls for today’s un-bee-lievably rewarding mission!

Yesterday, Luan and I were pleased to lend a hand to West Byfleet Matters as they prepared for their Outdoor Cinema event showing Mamma Mia! at West Byfleet Junior School. It was our first time volunteering with the team and we quickly got stuck into a variety of tasks to help get the site ready. We helped erect the gazebo for the drinks tent, unloaded tables, drinks and other equipment from several cars, and moved football goalposts out of the way to create space for the event setup on the school field. It was great to support a local community event and see how much work goes on behind the scenes before everyone arrives to enjoy the evening. A big thank you to the West Byfleet Matters team for making us feel so welcome. We enjoyed helping out and hope to be back again to support future events

Setting up for a Fair day

Friday evening saw me heading over to St John's Church to help with preparations for their Summer Fair, taking place the following day. There was plenty to do to get everything ready. I helped unload cars packed with donations and supplies, moved tables out from storage and carried boxes of items that would be sold at the fair. After a busy session of lifting, and carrying alongside the volunteers at the church, everything was out ready for the them to finish setting up ahead of Saturday's event. Hopefully the fair was a great success and enjoyed by everyone who attended!

The finishing posts are in sight as the finishing touches and final tidy up got done. It was lovely to see Katie who did a great job weeding the brambles out of the wild flower area and the herb beds, and Stephanie who battled with the ivy and more brambles trying to reclaim the bird watching area. A lot of raking up dead leaves and a few more plants in place means that we're nearly ready for the big opening on 8th June. It's been a long journey and i hear that the children are getting very excited about the new area as they watch it come together.