We've been doing quite a bit of flyering recently, so much so that we must be pretty much experts at it... This evening's session came earlier than expected courtesy of cancellation from Newham Hospital. It probably is a tad chilly for gardening at the moment, so hopefully we can pick up with them again in the New Year. And at least with flyering, you get to keep moving! It also meant we were able to accommodate Mabel the dog in her last session with us for now, but hope it's not too long before she might be able to join us again.

Said flyers were to promote local volunteering opportunities with Food Cycle in case you missed it - they've got a new location just down the road from us in Plaistow and are looking for folks to help with their community dining experiences. Read more about them here.

Shout out to Hitesh for making it - it's been a while, so it was great to see you again. We do hopefully have at least one indoor festive task lined up this side of the Christmas, details to be confirmed as soon as we have them and next week we're back up the canal to Hackney Marsh Adventure Playground - sign up here.

A couple of firsts for GoodGym Newham on our regular Tuesday evening session – a new task in the form of handing out flyers for FoodCycle and a first appearance for Ahmed!

On the latter - Ahmed, it was an absolute pleasure to meet you, we hope you enjoyed it too and can’t wait to see you back again.

FoodCycle, our other first, had been in touch because they’re just about to launch a new location down the road from us in Plaistow. FoodCycle work with volunteers to collect surplus food, turn that into healthy meals that are then served at community meals in various locations around the UK. By doing so they hope to tackle food poverty, loneliness and food waste all in one go, which all sounds like a great thing to be doing! Keen to reach new volunteers in the area, we were armed with a stash of flyers aimed at recruiting said volunteers. So off we went down the Greenway, around the diversion, towards Plaistow station and surrounding streets, where we split the flyers between us and spent the next 20 mins or so distributing them.

Then back to the Print House for the obligatory OJ and lemonade (other drinks are available…) Well done everyone – it may be a task we repeat if FoodCycle would like us to do some more flyering, or if there are other ways we can support.

See you next week – we’re off to the Adventure Playground!