It was great to get the gang back together tonight! 11 GoodGymers ran 2.5K to the Community Street at Quarry Place to continue with a variety of tasks.

We got a good workout in, moving several heavy planters down the street and into the van. We also continued to build the planter in the bin store, we lined and moved some other planters and then the remaining few of us finished off with some litter picking, filling 3 bags full of rubbish! Jason got to play with a drill again which we all know he enjoys and Fay was a trooper picking litter in a whole street by herself.

I had to laugh at Kat who thought the January challenge was for a whole year, so her target might be slightly unachievable in one month... you have 15 days left Kat, so you might need to run all day, every day to make that target!

What a productive evening! We then ran another 2.5K back to Heart. Thanks to Helen for leading another great run.

A tin of sardines comes to mind....

Tonight we helped out Community Streets with two different groups. We had one group outside doing joinery by building a large planter, we didn't get to finish it but will come back to finish the job. The indoor group then lined several planters in Beth's living room & piled them up in the yard.

We finished up by drinking hot toddy and eating mince pies. Thanks to Beth for hosting and for feeding us at the end!

Welcome to newcomers Stella and Zoe this evening, we hope to see you again in the new year!

Well done to Faye for reaching 10 good deeds tonight.

Happy Christmas all, have a great couple of weeks & we'll see you in 2025 for the January challenge. Thanks for all of your hard work in 2024!

What a great night we had last night for the GoodGym Leeds Christmas party. We had a whooping 22 people come to celebrate Christmas & it was really wonderful to see such a lovely group of people come together.

Firstly, we met at Heart to do a quick clean of the nursery space & then everyone settled down in the nursery and I ran a sound bath for the group. I've never seen the GoodGym Leeds gang so quiet!!! Everyone relaxed to some gentle sound meditation & I really appreciated so many people coming to let me practice on them. We'll do another one in the new year :)

We then headed to the Heart bar for food, drinks & a Christmas quiz. We were also very lucky to have a group of musicians come along to entertain us all! Well done to Katie, Katie, Rachel & Kat's team who won the quiz with a fabulous 10/10 (I'll need to make it harder next year)!

It was also an opportunity to thank our wonderful task force, Helen, Jubz, Katie, Kat & Bryony (in her absence). We really appreciate everything you do for GoodGym Leeds, so thank you for everything you have done for the group this year.

Welcome to newcomer Finn & welcome back to Pik & Sudharsan who joined us for the second time. We hope to see you again soon.

Thanks all for a wonderful evening & Merry Christmas!

What great team work tonight! The group ran down to Quarry Place to meet Beth who's working on her street becoming the first Community Street project in Leeds. There's all sorts planned to get the whole street involved in horticulture and community activities.

We had 3 jobs:

Faye put flyers through the letterboxes on the street.

The outside team were building a work bench. This team had a production line going on to mark the wood, drill the holes, put screws in, hold it steady and screw it in! Good team work all & apparently Jason tossed his bits everywhere...I think that the least we know about that the better!

The inside team lined 3 planters which was actually harder than it sounds! We took 40 minutes figuring out the first one and then 12 minutes on the second & third! We got there in the end.

Thanks to Beth for allowing us in her home & welcome back to Lydia for her second session.

Sorry Jason, you need to shrink for the next team photo!

Great work all!