Neill helped out at Riverbank by preparing ground for planting and planting over 200 bluebell bulbs. In April the children will enjoy a carpet of blue.

This week's Group Run took us to Wardown Park to fill up barrows of woodchip for mulching trees.

Sounds easy, but we needed to move those barrows over the hill of Pope's Meadow to deliver the mulch to the People's Park orchard. It's a steep hill so with three people pushing the XL barrows it was still a hard job maintaining momentum and pushing on to the top of the hill!

We met Konni from the Luton Orchard's Project who was delighted to see us and have this mulch delivered ready for her volunteers on Friday to distribute around the trees.

With empty barrows it was once more over the hill for us to return them and then before heading back to town we stopped off for a plank challenge and to try out a plank-based lights-out game for a bit of fun core-toning activity.

Another fabulous evening at FoodCycle and they qere sonomeased to have lur team of 6 GoodGymers providing some vital support. Gill and Lucie were coking - Lucie on the starter made a delicious celery and stilton soup while Gill made use of the lemons 🍋 to make a lemon and sultana sponge pudding. Ezrik joined them in the kitchen for his first FoodCycle task and did an amazing job of the washing up. Teklay had his first turn at hosting alongside Sam and Abdulrahman and they did a great job of setting up the hall, serving the guests and tidying up after. Another evening of great team work. Well done all.

there must be some clutter free houses in Luton and beyond as several of our GoodGymers including Harvey from Ealing had a good clear out and took their unwanted items to a nearby charity shop.

Today was the final day for the Tub2Pub challenge and our area activator was keen to know from Gill, "Whatever happened to all those heroes?" No the GoodGymers didn't eat them all but had been collecting tubs from a school, a church and work colleagues. So we had lots of empty tubs to deliver to various Green King Lubs. Laura dropped hers at the Battle of Axes pub in Aldenham and gets the prize for getting round the margest number of pubs. Ella dropped hers at the Biscot Mill after our Wednesday group run, Lucie walked up to the Jolly Topers on Friday while Gill and Omar did a double whammy, dropping off lots of Heroes tubs at the Jolly Milliner after the litter pick and then walking/ cycling to the Biscot Mill with Teklay to make a final drop off after our charity shop task. Well done to all who have done the task this year, saving plastics from going in landfill and contributing to Macmillan Cancer care , a charity close to my heart.

This week's group run saw us: 👋🏼 Welcome Fanual and Biruk to first sessions 🏃🏿‍♂️ Run to Wardown Park 🪵 Collect some wood chip 🏃🏼 Run further down the road 🌳 Mulch trees we planted previously 🏃🏻‍♂️Run back to the park 🪜 Do a stair climb workout 🏃🏼‍♀️Run back into town

A great workout for a misty Wednesday evening!