Luton Goodgyms turned out in force today to support Luton Foodbank's annual colour run. After putting on the volunteer t-shirts and sunglasses, the team headed over to the paint station. This was essentially a box full of green powder paints that we were going to coat all the runners in as they passed by on their 3 laps around Wardown Park. Surprisingly very few runners dodged the paint and instead opted for a good covering of colour. One participant asked if we could put some of the green powder paint in her hair as she had all the other colours but not green.
We had great fun playing with powder paints although our own clothes and trainers were casualties and we hope can we join again next year. Great teamwork, everyone 👏

The Health Fest brought together loads of organisations with the aim of helping people look after their health. GoodGym was flying the flag, speaking to members of the public, making connections and getting people to play our energetic ring toss game!

It was a long day but we had a lot of helpers along to take turns talking and running the game.

This weeks run/walk/cycle group task took us to a familiar setting. We recently supported the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara with their Near Neighbours funded cooking classes and it's always a great experience being in the kitchen, but on this occaison we helped in the temple by giving the upstairs a spruce up. When we arrived Sanjeev from the the temple had prepped the carpeted area in the main prayer hall by sprinkling a liberal amount of Shake and Vac across the floor, which once vacuumed up left the room smelling great - we really did "put the freshness back" in the room. The team also wiped down all the woodwork and dusted all the plant pots. We also had a good go at cleaning a bathroom area. Our hosts were grateful for the help and have asked if we can return again soon. This session was the first for Yohanns who met us at one of the previously mentioned cooking classes.

Great job team, well done 👏

For this weeks group 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ run, 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ walk, 🚲 cycle the team headed over to 61fc to start (what now seems to be an annual task) painting the posts on the barrier around the football pitch so they look nice for the coming season. The team were 9 strong tonight and we welcomed Dinner Dee on her first group run after joining us for several other tasks, it was good to get her out and about with the team and we hope she'll join us again. Richard at the club was happy with what we got done and we've agreed to go back in a few weeks and get some more done. Great effort tonight everyone.

We came together once again to prepare and enjoy a hearty, healthy meal – featuring delicious chickpea curry, hot rotis, comforting dal, cooling yogurt, a fresh salad, and creamy Seviyaan milk pudding for dessert. The kitchen was alive with energy – pans sizzling, rotis puffing, black pepper grinding, and yes, plenty of washing up! We all sat down together to share a nutritious meal made with love and teamwork. Big thanks to all the GoodGym Member and temple in making the session a success.

6 Goodgymers joined the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara in Luton on session 4 of their curry cooking classes. Our team helped to clean pots and pans and annoyed a share of the culinary spoils too. We're always made to feel so welcome at the temple. We look forward to helping again at the next session

8 Luton Goodgymers came together to help host one of the latest sessions of cooking classes at the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat Gudwara in town. This event is a great opportunity to support a fantastic local organisation and meet and meet others who are really interested in what we as Goodgymers do. We cooked Several rice dishes, sweet and savoury. Chick pea curry, paneer curry and rota's. After cooking, we ate and then helped the Aunties clean down the kitchen. This was a really fun evening.