The first day of March brought us part three of the leaflet drop we are doing to support Food Cycle at four locations across the city. Food Cycle provides cooking and free meals to local people and it's a great way of bringing communities together.

It was the first time we've gone to an evening task when it's still been light in a long time, and Charlotte snapped a beautiful photo of the Tyne on her way over. While Charlotte and I met on the way, poor Laura had her first experience of the great hill of Westgate Road.

I didn't realise it was uphill the ENTIRE WAY!!

Louise is amazingly the only GoodGymer to take part in every Food Cycle task in this leafleting streak but she will sadly miss next week's due to being away. As soon as she arrived we made a plan and got cracking.

Westgate is a lively community and shops and takeaways seemed loud and friendly as we made our way up and down four long residential streets. Louise had the chance to chat to a few locals about the work of FoodCycle and some seemed keen to get involved.

Laura learned there is definitely a skill to leafleting and despite being a veteran of leaflet drops myself I still managed to get a few trapped fingers and two very cold hands by the end! In just 30 minutes, another 250 leaflets had been distributed, ready to move to our fourth and final location in Byker next week. We hope you can join us for that one!

Our next session is a Community Mission as we lend a hand to Saltwell Junior parkrun this Sunday. Come and join us if you can!