I drove home tonight thinking what a joy you all are! Our sense of community was strong tonight with giggles, dancing, hugs, oh & a bit of running & gardening too!

We met Beth at Bedford Fields & one group got to work doing some border clearing up the path & another group laying cardboard & woodchip around trees on the newly cleared beds. It all looked loads better by the time we'd finished.

We finished January strong, smashing our January challenge targets with 53 good deeds & 540 kms so far...& there's still 3 days to go. Well done team!

Congratulations to Jason & Christian who both completed their 70th good deed tonight & to Helen for her 240th!!! Thanks for all you do for GoodGym Leeds!

Welcome to Erica & Ross who joined us for the first time tonight, it was great to meet you both.

Everyone was really friendly plenty to do, tasks were good for just getting on with it, a nice amount of challenge but nothing intimidating. Was nice to put some of my handy skills to good use and help guide someone I was partnered with who was a little bit less confident.

Had some good conversations. They offered everyone a sauna session after, but i didn’t take up as had plans to meet a friend.

Forgot to take a photo, so here are my muddy feet on the way home.

Tonight Helen led a run from Heart up to Coffee on The Crescent, where we'd promised the owner that we'd litter pick in the local area when we helped him on Saturday.

I met the group there with bags & pickers & we got to task picking the lots & lots of litter around the area. We filled a whopping 14 bags full, not bad for 55 minutes. It just shows what a huge impact our team can have in a short period of time. Jason won the prize for most interesting find, a pair of boots!

Coffee on the Crescent gave us free coffee vouchers for the team which were much appreciated!

Welcome to Sreenu who joined us for the first time tonight, it's great to have you on board.

This morning, we met at Helen's house & ran up to Bedford Fields for a wood chip workout.

We were tasked with moving the wood chip from the front of the garden to inside for use on the new path. We then finished off by taking 6 wheelbarrows down to Coffee on the Crescent and spread the wood chip underneath the benches. As a reward, we were gifted a free coffee which we picked up (& cake) on the way back to Helen's.

What a great morning, thanks all!

On Friday, one GoodGymer headed to Leeds Community sauna to help with their build.

Good work Peter!

Tonight, in the freezing cold we ran down to Meanwood Farm for our first visit of the year. After admiring the beautiful donkeys, cows and sheep who were in the barn to keep warm, we split into two groups for two tasks. One group headed into the greenhouse for what Katie described as lifting, cleaning, emptying and rearranging equipment (or words to that effect)! The second group headed to the apple trees to lay cardboard around the trees ready for wood chipping. Lydia, Helen and I then grabbed a wheelbarrow each and were tasked with moving wood chip up to the trees. This was quite a good workout lugging those up the hill & it kept us warm (kinda) on this very cold night.

Our group have a free the donkey's campaign in the works, as the donkey's only reside at the farm during the winter, they're on Blackpool beach all summer :(

Well done for coming out in this weather all! Welcome to Jess & Ella, it was great to meet you both.