After a chance conversation with the vicar at St Mary's Church at Foodie Friday in September, we were invited to assist with fixing some of the tiles on the church floor. ⛪️

Being such an old heritage building, the tiles has become worn and uneven in areas with high foot fall. 🧱

We were tasked with removing the tiles, trying to remove as much of the old, dried motar and then putting these back down with fresh mortar. 🔨

Putting the tiles back down was just like creating a jigsaw! 🧩

This was a new skill for most of us but we were fortunate to be assisted by representatives of the church who could show us the ropes. 🙌

Ben, Hannah and Laura slotted in an extra GoodGym task on a Monday due to a busy diary for GoodGym Stockport in November and December! 🎉

Beginning at Life Leisure Cheadle, we took our usual route to the residential estate we regularly frequent for leaflet drops. 📬

We were delivering leaflets for Together Trust to help promote their Christmas Appeal. 🎄

Together Trust Charity provides life-changing support and care for the children and adults across the Northwest. Their services include specialist educational facilities for young people with autism and learning disabilities, fostering service, residential homes and respite services, sleep clinics and community services. ✨️

Their Christmas Appeal ensures that every person they support receives a gift this winter period, whether it be chocolate, toys, sensory toys, arts and crafts, toiletries, hampers or vouchers. Here is the link for more info: https://www.togethertrust.org.uk/christmas 🎁

Despite the overnight snow, 3 hardy Goodgymers braved the plummeting temperatures to help in the fight against plastic.

With minimal fuss, we coolly ran the 3-ish km to Merseyway Workshop and Plastic Shed. Caitlin, despite a sniffly cold and a wild swim in the morning, was overjoyed by our arrival to finish off the mountain of bags. Numb with excitement (or cold) we crisply sorted the bags by colour, managing to get through the remaining bag collection. The background of music and pottery was an ideal backdrop to the busy sorting.

Plastic waste is snow joke and we were happy to help, open to a future invitation to help out the community group.