Despite being really short on numbers in the kitchen at Foodcycle this week. The team still managed to get a 3 course meal out to around 35 seated guests and an additional 7 take aways. Gill stayed on after her food collection to help in the kitchen as we were a few members down which was egg-citing. The team decided on a starter of egg salad open sandwich 🥪 🥚 followed by mushroom 🍄 pasta with sweetcorn and cheese 🧀. Dessert was a rather egg-pertly chopped up fruit salad with a bramley apple pie or a caramel tart, courtesy of Mr K (other brands are available but not as egg-cedingly good). Chanel and Neill were part of the hosting team and made sure everyone was served with their meals. Cracking show tonight team 👏 👌 🙌 👍🏻 Well done all

Singing Cafe at Sundon Park Baptist Church for the past 14 years has brought nothing but happiness to the hearts of many who attend the cafe every Friday. Together we laugh , together we sing and cheer! Yes we can do better if we keep the flags up! Goodgym Luton volunteers have been tremendously supporting to set up and clean up the hall.

Today’s event went on smoothly as usual. Have you heard that Sundon Park Singing Cafe will be celebrating her 15th anniversary come 20th of June, 2025??? Same Venue , same time! Don’t miss out 😍

The plan for the group run was to return to Holy Trinity Church to complete the Spring clean we started a couple of weeks ago. With the Dave on vacation, responsibility for leading the run was passed to Gill- but with a fairly direct route along the A6 it should be quite straightforward. With Gill on her bike she met up with Sam & Omar in the town centre and after a warm up led by Sam they were on the 3 of us were our way to the task. Part way through the run/ride a crazed ringing sound could be heard, getting closer and closer. As they tried to clear the path, the noise was added to by Gail's unmistakable laughter… and then there were 4. Before long the church was in sight along with another red tee shirt and another bike. Joe and Estherhad run and cycled to join us… and then there were 6. A good sized team to get the job done swiftly, or so we thought. However the church was in darkness, the door was locked and a quick phone call to the verger established that there had been a mix up and he wasn’t able to let us in. After some deliberation (i.e. standing around looking like the lost sheep from the parable 🐑 ) it was decided that, rather than abort our attempts at doing good, a spot of plogging was in order. But being unprepared was a problem. Targeting the Tesco local - Sam and Joe bought 3 pairs of Marigolds while Gill managed to blag some free bin bags from a member of staff. Marigold yellow with GoodGym red might not be the best colour combo, but with one glove each we were bobbing and weaving to pick up the litter on the route back towards the town centre. Plogging with a bicycle is not the easiest - but needs must and good team work meant we collected a fair amount of rubbish. Well done team.

Luton Goodgymers stepped up to help Foodcycle . Today we served 39 people 3 course meal plus takeaways . It was amazing team work and effort from everyone - food collection team, cooking team, hosting team , pot washer, host and helpers Lots of potatoes were used this evening so as other vegetables for starter to very tasty main course . Pudding made by Jordi was delicious sweet ending to yet another great mission. People loved the food and team enjoyed the task . Well done everyone

Menu was Starter - potato and onion soup & bun Main - vegetable stew and potato wedges Dessert- brioche bread and butter pudding

2 GoodGymmers helped Luton's United Nation Association sail through the parade. On a windy day, GoodGym brought strong arms and a firm hold to keep the UNA's large banner from flying away with them. Supporting the Women's March for Peace members to dance, flag wave and show their elaborate costumes along the parade route safe in the knowledge that their beloved banner was in safe hands. The parade was attended by hundreds of local community members and covered by local and national media.