GoodGym Norwich is 9! That's a whopping 9194 Good Deeds in 9 years!!

Tonight 16 GoodGymers ran and cycled to Mousehold Heath for a conservation task followed by a celebratory picnic!

With the sun shining, Will lead us to the area of the heath in need of some work. We got stuck in pulling up bracken, to allow other species of plants to grow, particularly heather. This helps to improve pollination and biodiversity.

In an hour we had cleared the area of bracken, with the difference before and after clearly visible! Shout out to Tondi who attended his first session.

Then it was time to party! With hot & cold drinks, blankets full of food and homemade treats, we stayed until there was little left over. We also had a chance to say thanks to Steven for leading this great group for 8 & a half years!!

Tonight 11 GoodGymer's ran 6km to support EACH charity store on Alysham Road.

On our first visit to this store, we were asked to help clear all Winter sale items from the shelves to make way for new Spring stock - but with a twist.

We each collected 10 sale items in matching sizes and placed them into bags so that they could be sold as £5 'mystery bags' in store. This created lots of fun, finding the correct sizes and choosing a variety of clothing.

After an hour 35 bags had been filled!

It was also Ian's 200th Good Deed this evening, so a few of us celebrated with Pizza at the end of the night!

360 people, a beautiful picturesque Catton Park, the sun coming out for the start were else to be on a Saturday morning. It was a Goodgym double of volunteering today with Susanna on her 100th and Steven on his 50th here at Catton. Well done everyone

No snow this week but the Catton lake was back, marshalled by Goodgym own Hitch. As Norwich Parkrun and a few others were cancelled we had a number of tourists joining us, but you definitely needed trail shoes for this course. Regulars were very pleased to see the lake back, some splashing through, others steering a wide berth around it. Much fun. Many Goodgymers attending, Alina, Emily, Ian, Rob R, Bobby, Ralph, Jonathan well done all.

2026 the first one of year saw 543 complete our chilly Parkrun including 8 very first timers. Lots of Goodgymers attending included Ian running his 200th parkrun, great achievement, Bobby, Liam (with Henry in his new buggy) another well done on this course, Alina, Roisin & Susanna. Keep up the attendance everyone