Our welcome speech this week had lots of news. Including Tom, Catriona & Bex have joined Sarah, Ellie, Justine & Jason on our taskforce. Give them a cheer! A bunch of us are heading to White Star Running on the bank holiday in August along with lots of other goodgymers - will you join us? And the last bit of news was Age UK in Kensington & Chelsea are putting on a football event this Sunday and are looking for volunteers to help out serving drinks and chatting with the older people 12-3pm. More info here.

Our task for the evening was to help at Maystar Estate. It was a 1.5km run for us and we were met there by the lovely Pauline, a Residents Association volunteer who always organises our visit. This time she asked if we could help plant out some plants in the raised beds and around the play area, plus water everywhere throughly. There was a slight hold up when we arrived because the lock on their tool shed had jammed and wouldn’t open. The team started using the few available tools and their hands to start planting, whilst Jason and Catriona worked on the lock. They eventually Catriona it open and then everybody had enough tools. With time to spare at the end, one group weeded the pavement around the garden and another few people filled up the water butts so the garden was easier to water after our visit.

Once we’d finished all the tasked we headed back to base. Catriona and Andrew went a fast, long route via the river and the rest of us went a shorter route one.

Everyone’s reward at the end was a tasty carrot cake at the gym afterward to celebrating Alice and my birthdays and the new recruits to taskforce.

Tasty stuff!