Shout out to our GoodGym Trafford Group runners who ran 5K last night to carry on the "big tidy up" at our base location of St Matthews Community Hall in Stretford. Welcome back to three of our launch night buddies Elaine, Meera and Anna, fab to see you again.

Big congrats to Elaine (pictured above) too for becoming the very first fully fledged Mission and Coach runner for Trafford, that's great news! If you're interested in becoming verified please get in touch with me or the Coach Team for more info, it's really easy to do.

Before we completed our task at St Matthews, we ran to the Beacon Centre (via Clare's never ending road - sorry!) had a quick photo shoot and then ran back through the lovely Longford Park completing running drills and planking on a plank! Thanks to Anna for her sprint drill and to Clare for backmarking.

On our return after we had stretched off, the lovely Community Hall Manager, Helen explained the history of the hall to us and told us about the amazing range of local groups that use it regularly including music, dancing, groups for people with additional needs and even a parrot flying group! Who knew that was even a thing?! After we had squawked (sorry!) at that surprising fact, we got down to work and made great headway with the entrance and car park of the hall - clearing, weeding, tidying and chopping down ivy.

Yet again, we achieved loads in the time we had and Helen was really pleased with our progress:

Thanks to you all, it's looking really lovely!

Our lovely Community Hall Manager, Helen

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We closed by having a chat about our 10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS!!! GoodGym is 10 years old next week so we chatted about our very special birthday task on our group run on 18th September from our base location of St Matthews Community Hall, Stretford (M32 9AJ) at 6.30pm. We'll be helping Friends of Victoria Park to make their gardens more glorious, click the link to sign up and also join us at our social at the nearby Head Bar afterwards!

We also will be completing a Community Mission for Gorse Hill Studios on Saturday 21st September at 12.30pm. Click here to sign up - we need loads of you to make the gardening party go with a swing!

Thanks again guys and see you all for our birthday celebrations!