Five of us met to support volunteers from Friends of Davyhulme Park to help with their efforts to keep the park clean and tidy. We managed to avoid the rain and collect five bags of rubbish, go team!

We were contacted by a local hospital to help gather donations for a Covid Positive ward for elderley and palliative patients as they did not have their own toiletry bags.

We were more than happy to help and we managed to collect a large number of items and drop these off for them to be put into specially made care packs.

THANK YOU SO MUCH - YOU ARE AWESOME GOODGYM TRAFFORD!

Well done and thanks everyone! Another mission completed (and Kate's 50th Good Deed!)

Our lovely bunch of Goodgym-ers walked/cycled/ ran the length and breadth of Stretford with members of their households to deliver well over 3000 leaflets to raise awareness of the Stretford Community Hub based at Stretford Public Hall.

A massive shout out and well done to everyone who helped! Particular shout out to Emma who completed her first good deed with GoodGym Trafford - welcome to the gang!

what a fantastic effort! please pass on my thanks to the team

Kate, Stretford Community Hub

As part of new zero waste business dropped off a food donation with Trafford Community hub and pledged to donate to FareShare

CHAIR CHALLENGE: THE RETURN!

This week we met at our lovely host location of St Matthews Community Hall and were tasked with helping sort and fix chairs that have seen better days. However, first of all we shared our news which included exciting stuff outside of GoodGym but mostly

WE HAVE A FOURTH COACH PAIRED IN TRAFFORD!

Yes, our lovely Trafford member Nicola just got paired up which we are all over the moon about!

As this was one of our regular walkable tasks, once we had warmed up we undertook a fitness sesh as running was off the agenda. We ran, squatted and punched our way through a Tabata workout and managed to work up a sweat!

We had been assigned several piles of chairs and we set about achieving the following: * Sorting chairs into fixed and to be fixed sections * Replacing feet so that they don't scrape the lovely wooden floors * Replacing chairs and * Tidying up the hall

We sorted out nearly 300, well done team!

After we had achieved all that we chatted about our task next week (which is at Gorse Hill Studios) and went off with smiles on our faces!

See you all next time, Kate x

57 varieties at Stretford Foodbank!

Last night our crack team of GoodGymers ran to Stretford FoodBank to complete no less than five tasks to help sort food donations and the storage facility!

We met as usual at St Matthews and welcomed some lovely newcomers to the team - well done and welcome to

Sarah

Lucy

Gemma

Once we had shared our news (well done and congrats to Katie, Nicola and yours truly) for clocking up 10, 10 and 30 Good Deeds respectively!) we warmed up (thanks to John for leading) and headed off with runners and a walking group too.

We arrived at the Foodbank storage facility and were briefed on our various tasks, Tracey leading a musical squat challenge as a diversion. Then we set to and achieved the following:

• Removal of many cardboard boxes for recycling
• Sorting of literally HUNDREDS of tins of beans into crates and date order
• Sorting and moving toiletries
• Tidying and making space in another room for more storage
• Disassembling and packing a van full of old furniture for taking to the tip.

MASSIVE WELL DONE ALL!

Once we'd completed our tasks we said our goodbyes and ran back to base feeling pretty chuffed with our efforts!