I spent the afternoon at our local stall, collecting essential produce to stock the shelves of the local Food Hub. Thanks to community kindness, I collected a fantastic array of healthy items: Bananas and Oranges, Green Vegetables, Potatoes and Onions. All this fresh food makes a real difference. The boxes were collected by a dedicated Food Hub volunteer, to be sorted and assembled into food parcels tonight. These crucial supplies will go directly to families in need across our area, ready for delivery tomorrow morning. A massive thank you to everyone who stopped by and contributed, providing nutritious meals and vital support to our community.

This afternoon 5 goodgymers met to help other local residents to clean and tidy up this well used public space. We found several items that corresponded to recent events in our yearly calenders. This was all done whilist chatting and then finished off as always with a nice but naughty treat from the lady at the cafe here, managing to dodge the rain [ bonus]!

A team of three GoodGym heroes - Emily, Saber, Marie-Noëlle - met at the community garden this morning, joining forces with Susan and her loyal volunteers. Our mission: clearing and preparing an ancient compost bin space into a new planter for spring. An additional new bed was cleared, sowed with future flowery glory, and made a nofly zone for the resident chickens who seemed to be plotting a takeover. Elsewhere, compost chopping and turning and the composter zone tidied, followed by a watery marathon! pond restocking with water from the water rollers, then refilling the rollers with river water.
And finally gutter surgery, clearing out blockages to ensure the water tanks can capture precious rainwater

It’s was time to 🎵Step in to Christmas🎵 at the BHF.

Upon arrival Christmas was in full swing with garlands going up and Christmas stock piling out of the lifts.

After refuelling on Pizza Luke and Jonathan tackled fairy lights, a somewhat fiddly task but a sparkly one, whilst Levita became Santa - can you spot her?

Meanwhile Jana found display places for fancy ball balls, Martel and Levita - no longer Santa hung the garlands over the arch and Tom, Claire, Ellie, Louise and Sabir displayed everything on the shelves from Xmas stockings to socks, Santas, fir trees and a catus!!

In no time we had the shelves full of Christmas treats to fill Santa’s sleigh.

Throughout today 9 goodgymers from Kingston and several others areas in this beautiful country of ours , took time out to buy and drop off items for the food bank.

Today I was in charge of collecting food donations for the local foodbank DLAG. Today in the list were tin food, rice and herbs & spices. There were slow but steady food drops.