It was great to have such a big group tonight, with 15 GoodGymers running up to Bedford Fields to do various jobs. It wouldn't be Bedford Fields without a wood chip workout, so we wood chipped all the paths, cleared and chopped up debris, sieved soil & Jubz dug a big hole to lay a pipe and then filled it all back in.

Welcome to newcomers Annie & Laura & welcome back to Kawan who last joined us in 2020 (thanks for the bike ride)!

Thanks all & great work everyone.

3 GoodGymers headed to Surplus2Purpose on Sunday to help out. Alice put stickers on some dishwasher tablets, we did some quality assurance on plums, then the three of us went to St Aidans for a walk in the sun.

On a sunny Saturday afternoon, I met Jubz & Alice at Bedford Fields for a lesson in foraging and preserving wild garlic. We picked the garlic & then Alice washed, Jubz chopped and I mashed it all into a pot, covered with salt & chilli flakes. Val who was running the session, will now look after it for a couple of weeks before we come together for the next stage of preserving. Afterwards, we all headed to Coffee on the Crescent for some ice cream. Thanks for a nice afternoon guys.

What a great night with the GoodGym Leeds gang! Last night, we met at Heart and ran up to Beckett Park, where we finally got to play a game of rounders. it was great fun and we definitely got better the more we played! Even though there were less people on Helen's team, they still won with 8 rounders over our 6.5...Well done guys! Everyone loved the game, so this is something we're going to do more of now the nights are lighter.
We finished off by running up to the Wetherspoons for a drink & some chips. Thanks for a great night all & welcome to an honorary member for the night, Jack.

After park run we headed to the garden at Sunshine and Smiles to do various jobs including:

-Moving the broken bench and the bag of garden waste to the front garden -re-filling the sandpit with the grey bags of sand at the side of the garden -Cleaning the benches, slides and red spinning cone. - Sanding & re-painting the benches -Raking out all the sticks from the grassy areas

It's amazing what we can do in an hour and the garden was transformed by the end, ready for an event next week.

Welcome to Alex for her first session!

Good work team!