It was a fantastic evening at St. Martin’s Church, with lots of painting to be done down an office corridor, leading into the outdoor area of a previous gardening task!

The shade was ‘Egyptian Cotton’ - hence ‘greige’… it’s a lovely fresh shade mixing beige and grey. So, before long our rollers were rolling and our paintbrushes were brushing!

Lots of tidy, intricate work around light switches, bannisters and along the masking tape borders. Plus some good coats on the main walls. We had a brilliant team and enjoyed welcoming Sophie to her first task.

Rich from the church helped us along with our painting and gave us a lovely little tour of other areas needing a fresh lick of paint. A few of us then headed into the city centre for a social and got a taste of Birmingham Cocktail Weekend’s vibes!

Stay tuned for the next task and our Christmas social going in the diary. Thank you again to everyone for helping out, it was wonderful teamwork!

Tonight we were at our brand new city centre base, The Good Intent.

The session was a running workout followed by a litter pick outside the church on Carrs Lane.

We headed off to 'the hill' in the Jewellery Quarter to do some Kenyan hills. The workout was 8 minutes of Kenyan hills followed by 3 hard hill sprints. Everyone worked hard as you can see from the photos, the group were running so hard they caused a blur!

Once done we swung by our old base, 1000 Trades to pick up our litter pickers to take to our litter picking spot.

We managed a full bag of litter clearing the area in double quick time.

Once done, we walked back to the Good Intent for a well earned drink :)

Last Thursday I did a very quick pick and plog around the Jewellery Quarter before joining COBS on their weekly social run, before finishing and joining for a well earned drink and pizza!

Litter pick by Carr's lane church. Filled two bags of rubbish. Was a bit nippy in running top so kept it quick

This was our last Jewellery Quarter Cemetery task, before the dark nights roll in!

3 GGers' helped out with Josie in removing some stakes from trees, along with the wood around the trees. It wasn't an easy task, with plenty of muscles recruited to remove some of the nails.

There were a lot of new trees planted in Warstone Lane Cemetery between 2020 and 2021. Some of them are now so big that the tree supports were rubbing the bark and needed to be removed to protect the trees which are big enough to withstand the wind without them now.

Also sadly 3 of the trees died after being planted so those supports weren't needed either. We packed up all the spare tree supports so they can be reused for new apple trees which have been planted in Lodge Hill Cemetery and need more protection before the winter!

we managed to load all the stakes into Josie's car, so it was a good job done.

Although it was listed as a run, Jonny biked too and from the session and Veronika and Miriam got some steps in via a walk and also certainly got a bit of a strength workout.

The GoodGym Bunch turned up bright and early to Stirchley Baths on a drizzly Saturday morning to help set up for the Autumn Stirchley Community Market! Amy and Veronika expertly put up the gazebo with Sofeen and Laura’s help - good thing we practised a few weeks before!

Christina helped put out the decorations around the baths and then we all gave some old tables a scrub so they could be re-sold to a new home!

Big thank you to the GoodGym crew - we couldn’t have done it without you!