It was a Milestone Monday at GoodGym tonight as we celebrate some pretty impressive achievements. Earlier in the week Nicky W completed her 400th Good Deed and tonight Vicky completed her 500th!! Give her a huge cheer 🎉

We numbered off by naming some inspirational women in aid of International Women's Day before setting off to the Groves with Ed leading the run out and Abigail bringing up the rear.

At the Groves we were greeted by Tracy who split the group into 5 tasks. The first group (aka the moss bros) tackled an area of tarmac that had become overgrown with moss. Armed with hoes, spades and a broom, the guys scraped and brushed the moss and began filling up a tonne sack.

The second group were tasked with filling up the planters (which GoodGym had helped to build) with soil, making light work of a pretty impressive mound of earth. James B and Emma joined up with the earth movers after completing a mini task of their own which consisted of removing a couple of buddleia bushes

Martin and Jenna also made short work of their job which involved decorating a couple of trees with some fairy lights (and not Tracy's tobacco) before joining up with the final group who were tasked with trimming back some bushes in planters that had probably not had any attention for several years.

Once all the jobs were complete we then joined back up for a tabata style workout on the now moss-free area that group one had been working on. An injured Nick provided the most interesting exercise variations and at one point almost looked like he might take off whilst doing his version of a star jump!

It was then back to CVS for some delicious cookies baked by Vicky before saying our goodbyes

Turns out that we still can't get enough of doing good, even after an epic January challenge. So after laying the foundations for the raised planters earlier in the year we returned to make a start on building the wall that will hold in all the soil.

Ian from the Groves gave us a quick lesson in bricklaying, then it was over to us (albeit heavily supervised) to have a go using our new skills

James and Arthur made a great team on one side, whilst Babs, Nick and Vicky tackled the other. In the meantime, Amy and Ed were kept busy making sure that Fergie didn't leave too many paw prints in the cement

We were soon up and running and making excellent progress, managing to lay the bottom layer of bricks of two planters. We all looked very confident in our use of the various tools and only needed the occasional helping hand to make sure we were level and not going too far wrong

To be honest, we probably could have carried on all afternoon as we were enjoying it so much. But time wasn't on our side, so we called it a day after getting a quick group photo next to our "walls"