Lovely session wrapping Pressies & helping to prepare for Christmas Party at Stoke Park Trust. 50 members of the disability community benefited from a present wrapped up by a Goodgymer. The Goodgymers are definitely on Santa's nice list.

Well done to Jen Simpson for achieving her 600th task ! There is snow stopping her !

Three Goodgym members got their 70s groove on doing an Abba fab job in turning the Stoke Park Active charity building into a theatre venue. it will be buzzing with Dancing Queens tomorrow enjoying the Abba Theatre show.

The name of the game was to move tables and chairs. Ribbon decorations and candles were spread throughout the venue.

Thank you Super Troupers!

Goodgym teamed up with Stoke Park Active Volunteers to take down the Valentines decorations. Our hearts were racing as we paced around the room finding anything heart shaped to take down off the walls.

We also sorted out the art therapy books for the charity's social club. It felt ( tip ) great to help.

The charity is very grateful for the love shown today in helping out.

Ho ho ho how we have missed a group task at Stoke Park Active. Thank you Clare for arranging this task for us… we had great fun.. for those who missed it… Yule be sorry

We made our own way to the task where Clare was waiting for us to do some Gangsta Wrapping of gifts for the Stoke Park Active members. Once we knew what we were doing there was Noel time like the present to get stuck in.

It was great to have Didem visit us from neighboring Windsor and Maidenhead GoodGym. Hope you enjoyed your trip to Slough.

There was a hive of activity as everyone merrily crackered on with their wrapping and chatting.

Once we finished there was a lovely caroling of happy birthday for me (for tomorrow)… and of course there was cake for everyone - well it would have been rude-olph of me not to bring any..

But wait there’s myrrh

Clare had a secret Santa up her sleeve with a snowball fight!

She divided us up into two teams then had us then beat each other with balls… you snow the drill!

What a wonderful way to finish off 2024 of GoodGyming

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and see you in the New Year

This morning 4 Ghoulgymers helped Stoke Park Active get their indoor space ready for their Halloween events next week.

Whilst Pam made horror chains, I helped Mansoor stick up the scary decorations as Clare directed us. When Abdul arrived he took over from Pam’s duties and finished off the chain-saw… hopefully no massacre!

It was great to have another collaboration with the team at Stoke Park Active. They really do have some wonderful volunteers

I had great eggs-pectations from the team tonight and they didn’t let me down!

We had a nice chilled out task today of filling knitted chicks with eggs for Alexander Devine Hospice and their Big Chick Knit campaign. We needed a nice warm indoor space to do this task and very kindly Clare offered her venue at Stoke Park Trust and as a bonus she invited some of her team to join us.. winner winner chicken dinner!

We are as chick as thieves and wanted to get started on the task as quickly as possible but before we could do that we had to do a warm up of course! So with a nice gentle warm up of walking to lunging to arm swinging we were egg-cited to start.

We had the best table to work on too! One covered in egg like balls also known as a pool table!

Working around the cluck

You better watch your behavior or you’ll get eggs-pelled from the group - actually that would never happen so we worked extra hard to be naughty! Each chick was given a name … egg-stra challenge was that it had to start with D (for duck!… because they looked more like ducks!)

The names started off easily enough… we had a Derek, a Doug and a Dickie… we then went deep to our roots and chose names from our cultures (or near enough)… so we had Punjabi ducks called Davinder and Daljeet, Iranian duck called Darius, Irish duck called Darragh, Bengali ducks called Devajani, Muslim ducks called Daniel and good old British ducks called Dave!

We worked slowly but surely and soon had all the chicks (aka ducks) filled so it was time for the fitness fun to begin.

Best of cluck!

In pairs we worked around the room working on 4 exercises from agility ladder to med ball halos to lat pull downs and overhead raises..

Followed by a good old party game of musical chairs!

Well done to Hamid for being the ‘Champion’

Thank you all for getting involved in tonight’s task.

Next week we are at St Mary’s Church on Church St helping with a spring clean (meet up point is Upton Court park at 6:30pm)