Tonight, Hannah-May, Laura and Mai returned to First Steps Pre School for the first time since 2018!

We took the scenic route down by the river and discovered a new path (when we were heading in the right direction 😂).

We helped with staining the fence in the lovely garden.

We met the lovely Helen and her daughter Ffion and over the course of 1.5 hours, discussed our lives in depth and told our funniest stories.

We hope to return to First Steps for future tasks! We received some lovely feedback from Helen after the session 😊

4 GoodGymers returned to What If? for the first time in 2025 and picked up where we left off last time, adding a second coat of paint to the benches so that they can be put outside so people can enjoy the garden in the nice weather.

We were treated to a delightful bowl of miso butter beans after the task and talked about our upcoming GoodGym sessions.

Thank you for having us back, we look forward to helping out again in the future!

P.s. Thanks to Meera for the pun!

A bumper crowd from GoodGym Stockport came out to clear a sandy area close to the Waterside Hotel - henceforth known as a "beach" - of litter and discarded waste that has accumulated from the river and from passers by or fly-tippers.

Ian and Liam from Venture Out were very happy to have a group to collect as much as possible, providing bags and litter pickers, with the bags supplemented from our own steady supply during the Great British Spring Clean.

Meera, Laura, and Ben made the ~3 km run from Life Leisure Cheadle, to be joined by Hannah by bike and Julie in the Waterside Hotel car park. Once we had located the Venture Out vans, we made our way out to the Mersey shore to get cracking.

Amongst the sand was a whole array of items, including:

• shoes (lots and lots of discarded shoes)
• crisp packets
• cans and bottles
• clothing (coats, fleeces, jackets)
• cones and tyres (too big for the bags but we put them in a single pile anyway)
• trolleys
• beer kegs
• 4 or 5 car registration plates plus other parts of cars such as bumpers

We collected easily 15-20 full refuse sacks that we then had to lug back to the van to drop in their final location next to a public bin to be reported to Keep MCR Tidy for collection by the roaming council collections vans during the working week.

Great way to spend the first Tuesday in the setting sun with the clock change allowing extra light until nearly 8pm! Great to see you all and we'll be back with Venture Out in 3 weeks to get into the water to help clear the area near Burnage Rugby Club.

Three goodgymers ran up to Castle Street in Edgeley to complete a litter pick.

It was nice to receive thanks from members of the public, and we were shocked at the number of discarded cigarette butts!

Huge congrats to Hannah who completed her 100th good deed tonight 🎉🎉🎉

Ben, Hannah and Laura got together to deliver the last of the leaflets for Together Trust - advertising their Spring Raffle and Car Boot Sale.

We chatted all things work whilst admiring the pink sky from the sunset 🌄