A team of three GoodGym heroes - Emily, Saber, Marie-Noëlle - met at the community garden this morning, joining forces with Susan and her loyal volunteers. Our mission: clearing and preparing an ancient compost bin space into a new planter for spring. An additional new bed was cleared, sowed with future flowery glory, and made a nofly zone for the resident chickens who seemed to be plotting a takeover. Elsewhere, compost chopping and turning and the composter zone tidied, followed by a watery marathon! pond restocking with water from the water rollers, then refilling the rollers with river water.
And finally gutter surgery, clearing out blockages to ensure the water tanks can capture precious rainwater

It’s was time to 🎵Step in to Christmas🎵 at the BHF.

Upon arrival Christmas was in full swing with garlands going up and Christmas stock piling out of the lifts.

After refuelling on Pizza Luke and Jonathan tackled fairy lights, a somewhat fiddly task but a sparkly one, whilst Levita became Santa - can you spot her?

Meanwhile Jana found display places for fancy ball balls, Martel and Levita - no longer Santa hung the garlands over the arch and Tom, Claire, Ellie, Louise and Sabir displayed everything on the shelves from Xmas stockings to socks, Santas, fir trees and a catus!!

In no time we had the shelves full of Christmas treats to fill Santa’s sleigh.

Throughout today 9 goodgymers from Kingston and several others areas in this beautiful country of ours , took time out to buy and drop off items for the food bank.

Today I was in charge of collecting food donations for the local foodbank DLAG. Today in the list were tin food, rice and herbs & spices. There were slow but steady food drops.

This morning Saber and myself met Danni and a few other volunteers to get on with the tasks that needed to be done. We set to work pulling up the pumpkins plants, weeds. Then chopped down the budelia all to a similar height and bagged this all up ready for the council to take away. Some of the cut down budelia also went on the dead hedge to replish it. With lots accomplished and a chat about goodgym, hopefully a new recruit we left satisfied with our mornings work.

today I joined a team of 10 THT volunteers, at the Terrence Higgins Trust, and helped out by making red ribbons to benefit people living with HIV.
We prepared 2000 ribbons which will be handed out to anyone making a donation at events across the country. There was much laughter and singing and some early discussions on the plan for 2026.