Last night at TRAID’s Hammersmith shop, we had a super productive (and slightly sweaty 😅) evening packing up after their big summer sale! There were mountains of clothes 🏔️ to get through, and we kicked off by taking all the hangers off to speed things up. Once we found our flow, we switched things up—keeping the hangers on and neatly packing everything into crates 📦. By the time the delivery team arrived, the big boxes were ready to roll. Job done! 🙌

A big warm welcome to our newbie Chau👋—you jumped straight in and smashed it! It was great having your energy on the team, and we hope to see you again soon. Speaking of which… our next mission is coming up next Thursday at the Kathy Dolan community centre 🏢. We’ll be lending a hand with cleaning and some gardening. Come along, bring your smiles, and let’s keep the good vibes rolling! 🌟

Each Monday morning, GoodGym lends a hand at the South Ealing Food Cupboard helping the wonderful volunteers sort through surplus food and get it ready to share with the local community. This morning Martin, Beata, and Iram were on hand to unload the lorry and unpack a varied selection of food.

The delivery included cartons of oat milk, cranberry juice, huge cabbages, potatoes, carrots and bread. There was a brief debate over whether the oat milk was past its best, but upon investigation we learnt the date had simply been misprinted. What looked like June (6) was actually September (9). No oat milk spilled needed to be spilled! Unusually, there was no meat or ready meals this week. Instead, there were loads of ready made sandwiches.

With a prompt delivery and a smaller haul than the last few weeks, the team had everything sorted in record breaking time!

London's community half marathon went red this year! 🔥

A huge congratulations to the oodles of GoodGym folk who caught well-earned happy mornings under a hot-hot-hot late summer sun ☺️

It was the biggest joy seeing you all!

Please send me your photos (!) and I will pop them up here (alexmurtough@goodgym.org) ❤️