Tonight's task was Mud-tastic. A last minute change meant the planned indoor uniform sort at Windsor Girls' School was transformed into a mud shifting assignment. GoodGym likes nothing more than getting stuck in so Sheila, Devon, Michelle, Jen, Sol and Amanda didn't clay around and dirt-ifully got on with the new plan.

Jen went to find some cardboard to lay down by the flower beds whilst the rest of the team began digging up the dirt with muddy gloves and dustpan brushes! It was a hilarious task that kept everyone nice and warm on this cold evening. Michelle was a super star channelling mud into buckets before switching things up with Sol who had laboured away lifting and shifting buckets of mud between fields. Sheila never tired and put her muscles to use shifting tonnes of dirt. Devon did so much of the heavy lifting (thank you!) and Jen made sure everything was in order on the delivery end. After an hour's hard work the team headed back to clean up and take some well-earned selfies. We were surprised by how much was moved in the end, despite our lack of appropriate tools - it just goes to show the power of the GoodGym mindset and community! We will be back soon to sort those uniforms (and be treated to the indoor task!). Well done team - you were mud-nificient!

Our first job of the session was to dig small holes about a foot apart to plant the hedgerow saplings which will grow into a hedge border to separate one of the garden areas from the car park.

Working in pairs (Jen and Sol, Devon and Rupi) by floodlight we soon reached the end of the fence markers sp we finished the session by deweeding and turning over two of the beds nearby.

Thursday 6:15/ 6:30pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

Tonights community mission was for a bit different and the weather didn’t disappoint!

We were at The Pirate Park doing litter picking as our primary task but with some GoodGym awareness thrown in giving out leaflets and a social game of rounders and gathering of to celebrate our achievements so far in Windsor.

We would have loved to have had more of you there but we do appreciate everyone’s help since Jan and dedication to Windsor’s good causes to huge 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 to you all!

Thank you also today to Pippa for her very first GoodGym session. 👏🏻👑

AND….. Sheila for her 703rd task ! 🥳🎉🍾👏🏻

We all met at The Pirate Park Caroline, Marilyn, Bekah, Jen, Sara, Mandy, Devon, Sheila and Pippa swept the park with litter pickers on our way to the far side where we were to play rounders.

We handed out some GoodGym Windsor leaflets to some runners and walkers in the park.

We set out the nibbles from The Binoy and got some music on. We decided on our rounders teams (Team Bhajis and Team Samosa) and set up the game. We’ll be honest it wasn’t very organised or indeed very fair 😬 but we all had a go and we all tried our best.

Pippa did a bit more litter picking and Devon and Mandy and Marilyn had a run around the field.

The others started on the Indian nibbles and cakes and eventually we all regrouped for a catch up.

Thank you all for coming 👑🏃‍♂️ you are all litter-ally the best!

Thursday 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️ and we're happy again ☔

Tonight we were helping Braywood CE First School in Oakley Green, Windsor.

Of course it’s half term so the weather wasn’t being kind ☔️ so no painting outdoors for us so tidying the small area in front of the school gates was our task instead.

Jen made her way on foot from The Greene Oak pub but Sue, Devon and Adam met at the task greeted by task owner, Head Teacher Susan. Mandy joined the task half way through as the rain was causing other issues as well 💧🪣 Huge thank you to Jen for stepping in as task force for the first part 👏🏻♥️

The front of the school had got a bit over grown so we wanted to create an area that maybe could have some planting added at a later date and give a bit more space as access to the parents and children.

Setting to work weeding and pulling up ivy, cutting back over grown hedgerow so the path has more space for when the children return next week.

We chatted about our week and touched briefly on the election but no heated debates were had! Devon took it all very well 😃 and had a break from knocking on doors.

Adam had a great technique playing leaf golf with a stick as part of the clear up at the end. Sue as always brought her mobile tool shed.

Lots of black bags were filled and put aside ready to go in the skip.

After the group photo we said our goodbyes , did the Windsor curtsy and made our way home.

As always thank you all for coming 👑😃👏🏻

Photos by Jen and Mandy

Thursday at 6:15pm is GoodGym Windsor Night! 👑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

Tonight we were at Windsor and Eton FC CIC to due to the weather to instead help in the clubhouse removing some paint that had not been applied properly and was easily coming away. Was lovely to see the tables we had sanded at previous sessions all smooth and painted ♥️

Zoe, Devon and Mandy had a social run from The Binoy to the task and Jen, Brenda and Caroline met us there.

It’s was Brenda’s first Thursday session and it was her 10th 👏🏻 Goodgym task so huge well done Brenda!

We were met by task owners and given the indoor task due to the incoming rain. Zoe picked some 80s tunes and we were supplied with scrapers to get all the paint off the wall panels. It was very satisfying watching the paint just peeling off. Then a sand down was required to ensure the surface was ready for painting. It was one of those tasks where it looks like we made it worse 🤣 but it needed to be done. Then we tidied up and gave it a quick vacuum.

We just about scraped through 🤣 one wall so we may have to finish the others another time.

Mandy insisted on a bit of footy action ⚽️ (there was no e-scraping it) with the sponge ball at the end although I don’t thing any of us will be asked to sign up for the team 😬

A quick curtsy and bow 👑🏃‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️and we made our way back.

Thank you as always for attending 👏🏻