Happy 9th birthday GoodGym Richmond!

Celebrating nine years of keeping fit by doing good in Richmond at the riverside plot we take care of on behalf of Richmond Council. A sunny jog along the river, followed by lots of watering, weeding, clearing up and happy chatting as we went. And a biscuit to finish!

Thank you to all 591 people who have done a task in Richmond over the last nine years!

The threatened rain held off as 6 Richmond GGers gathered at the Homemead Residential Care Home to help tidy their garden area.

There was a distinct lack of gardening tools available, so we focused our efforts on sweeping up the leaf litter strewn across the garden and in the flower beds, managing to fill a number of black bags.

Not much more to say on this one! Welcome back to Alex and Steph for their second and fourth good deeds respectively!

The heat may have been huge, but the desire to GoodGym on a Monday eve is bigger!

Starting with a warm up in Richmond, we headed across the green and down to the river to run across the lock and back along the river on the north bank into East Twickenham, turning in to St Christopher's Fellowship.

We are very familiar with the garden there and get on with weeding, litter picking, cutting back and sorting out without needing instruction! The brambles had been weaving their way around everything and weeds were clearly loving the heavy rain followed by sunshine, until we turned up!

45 minutes later the large garden felt more under control again, even if our own temperatures were not so much!

We are back there next month to keep on top of the summer growth.

5 Goodgymers headed over to the Charity "Missing people", the only UK charity dedicated to supporting missing children and adults, and their loved ones. Packing goodie bags for an event they had planned was the mission. We quickly blitzed through this churning out 118 bags of good things before heading back out into the sunshine for a nice walk back to Richmond. Good to see Steph, and Nina back in the task groove. A fun task !