This past weekend was one of those weekends I am puzzled on what to do (rather than don’t 😊) as a passionate GoodGym-er to shine my free spirit in and out, while having a great fun with other active women fellows and inspiring organisations in Brighton & Hove, .. and in London😊

We participated to a fun-packed interactive weekend together with Brighton Multiculture Women Cycle Club and Sussex Blazing Saddles, which was combining a bike-ability workshop on Saturday for local women and girls with a rehearsal and performance, on Sunday, fulfilled with dancing moves choreographed by Southeast Dance. This itinerating performance is a heritage project designed to shine lights on the historical moment women in the 1890s transformed their clothing & society to be able to ride bicycles. In Brighton, nowadays, that’s also a way to incentivise every woman from a diversity of backgrounds to have a go riding a bike and to overcome the stereotype that cycling is not easy when you are used, or just like, to dress a shirt.

While having fun ourselves this weekend, new members Mariangela, Maria, and Stefania, Cicely, Julia and Poppy and other beauties shone their love for cycling and braved riding in circles and uplifting the two wheels as part of a dancing choreography and public show in Brighton.

On Sunday (also), Richard and I cycled to Stanmer Park to help Brighton Permaculture Trust and to enjoy their celebration of apples and autumn! Volunteering at Apple Day is always most welcome, and I could not resist the call at the Fruit Factory’s scrump stall to make and sell juice, cider and other fruity stuff – with the background music of Steel Tribe. This GoodGym community mission is one of Tahita’s favourite, and I wanted to cheer a half-pint of cider as a tribute to her great contribution to Brighton Task Force – Grazie, Tabitha! Lets’ bring GoodGym in Amsterdam area next year!

Meanwhile, on Sunday (yep, also), Frannie, Nicky, Olivia, and other GoodGym-ers run together in London during the Vitality Wellness Festival, landmarking the icons of the big British City and braving their unique resilience to achieve their personal best even if not in ideal weather conditions but, certainly, in great company of John and others who have been running with GoodGym since not a long time ago.

Five of us met at the Queen Victoria's statue and headed to the Brighton & Hove Food Partnership Community Kitchen, where we joined the rest of the GoodGymers. Jo, our task owner, told us about the family community cooking classes they’ve been running all summer to support Brighton & Hove's funded Holidays Activities and Food programmes to beneficiary children and young people who learned how to make simple, healthy and delicious homemade dishes.

Our job tonight was to clean up the kitchen and make it extra welcoming for the final class on the day after.

We were joined by Tabitha, who’s soon moving to Amsterdam, and Carla, who’s also leaving Brighton soon. It was great to have them with us, and they worked hard to make the kitchen shine. If this was our last time seeing Tabitha, we wish her all the best and thank her for everything she’s done with GoodGym ❤️. We look forward to seeing Carla again before she goes 😉.

After a good scrub, the kitchen was spotless and ready for the coming up grand finale of the family cookery class, happening the day after! We got to tick those tasks off the to-do list—a job well done! 🎂

Brighton GoodGym,Bravo!

Do you know that....

As GoodGym volunteer you can participate to cookery classes with a GoodGym discount code. Furthermore, we could attend a 6-week cookery course at the B&H Community Kitchen by accompanying people they support, as referred by TogetherCo. This is an exemplar GoodGym’s mission that could help isolated people to build up routine and feelings of confidence.

For more information, ask our GoodGym Area Lead, Stefania and email hello@togetherco.org.uk