Tonight the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat temple in Luton held their 3rd curry cooking class as part of the near neighbours funded project they are currently running. 9 of Luton Goodgyms finest were there to support with hosting the event. Preparing, cooking and eating food as well as washing up and tidying away. Everyone got stuck in from buttering roti to laying out plates, there was a job for everyone. Well done team 👏, keep doing Luton proud 👏

This week our group run was in partnership with This Girl Can's #LetsLiftTheCurfew campaign.

Now the clocks have changed the evenings are darker and this puts many women off exercising outside in the evenings as it can feel unsafe to do so.

GoodGym is a safe space to exercise outside in a friendly group throughout the winter months and so to spread the word, and encourage more women to join forces reclaim the streets at night, we decorated ourselves with bright lights ready for a colourful run around town on the way to our task.

We welcomed Arthur to his very first session with GoodGym and Luqman who had done a couple of community missions but hadn't attended a group run before. It was lovely to meet them both and have two new faces on the Wednesday night team! They both looked great with their lights on and did a great job running around town with us.

Our colourful lights were doubly appropriate for the occasion because it is Diwali and our task for the evening was helping the Sikh temple prepare for Diwali celebrations at the end of the week. We arrived ready to help give the kitchen a deep clean, mop the floors. vacuum the carpets and generally give the whole temple an autumn clean.

With nine of us working away we did a really thorough job and were rewarded with hot cups of chai before we departed to illuminate the dark streets once again to finish off our evening.

12 of Goodgym Luton's team turned out to support the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat temple with the 2nd curry cooking sessions of their current Near Neighbours funded project. Helping with prep, cooking and cleaning up the team really helped to make the evening run smoothly. We welcomed Mugahid to his first session and after some brief introductions, he got stuck in and showed he'll be a great member if our Team. Well done all. thanks for a great evening

Tonight, 8 of Lutons Goodgym champions, joined members of Desi Arts and Sundon Park Baptist Church as part of the Shri Guru Ravidass Sangat's near neighbours funded project, cooking food and bringing different communities together. Tonight the team helped to cook, a delicious tomato infused rice, dhal, aubergine 🍆 curry, roti (117 in total) and rice pudding. Twice the rice 🍚 but oh so nice. It was great to welcome Dinner Dee to her first Goodgym session. Everyone got stuck in with washing up and cleaning down in the kitchen and we all got a little doggy bag to take away. Great effort 👌 everyone 👏

It was another busy night at FoodCycle - and GoodGym have definitely become a favourite partner with this fabulous charity venture.

We were luck to have a new member join us tonight in the hosting team. Welcome to Darshini - this was her first GoodGym task and she arrived wearing her GoodGym T shirt with pride. So great to have her on board.

We also had some of our GoodGym regulars with Abdo adding a flourish or art work to liven up the menu board, and Mayra making a return to the kitchen team after a short break joining martin and Gill.

It was also great to have Yasin with us for his second FoodCycle task.