6 GoodGymers met in Windsor to help Age Concern charity to distribute leaflets about their activities.

It was a dark task (good for January Bingo Card). It felt cold, and it was slowly turning frosty. But we were all wrapped up warm and willing to face the cold chill.

We plit in two teams and started to cover small residential streets in the area not too far from Spencer Denney Centre.

It was great to work in teams of three. We kept chatting and alternating the sides of the streets. Soon, the stock pile of leaflets had gone. That seemed very quick.

We met with the other team back at the starting point at 7.30pm, said farewells to Adam and Jen, and headed back to Age Concern location.

Job well done!

Ho ho ho how we have missed a group task at Stoke Park Active. Thank you Clare for arranging this task for us… we had great fun.. for those who missed it… Yule be sorry

We made our own way to the task where Clare was waiting for us to do some Gangsta Wrapping of gifts for the Stoke Park Active members. Once we knew what we were doing there was Noel time like the present to get stuck in.

It was great to have Didem visit us from neighboring Windsor and Maidenhead GoodGym. Hope you enjoyed your trip to Slough.

There was a hive of activity as everyone merrily crackered on with their wrapping and chatting.

Once we finished there was a lovely caroling of happy birthday for me (for tomorrow)… and of course there was cake for everyone - well it would have been rude-olph of me not to bring any..

But wait there’s myrrh

Clare had a secret Santa up her sleeve with a snowball fight!

She divided us up into two teams then had us then beat each other with balls… you snow the drill!

What a wonderful way to finish off 2024 of GoodGyming

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and see you in the New Year

Sheila and Didem welcomed Viv to her first community mission at Braywick Plant Nursery. We were given 2 tasks so we chose to do the coldest one first so that we could then go and warm up for the second. 45 mins later we had trimmed any dead stems and leaves from the over-wintering perennials. Then a complete change, and we challenged our creativity by decorating wreaths for sale in the shop. We all had different styles, but variety is the spice of life! Hopefully they will sell!

We had a lovely sociable afternoon gathering sprigs of bay, ivy, holly, rosemary, spruce, cedar and more leafy evergreen bits, ready for the Age Concern wreath making fundraiser at the Spencer Denney Centre tomorrow evening.

A very warm welcome to Rupi, who joined us for the first time. Great to meet you!

Thanks to Age Concern task owner Rachel for inviting us to be involved and to foliage expert Ranger Tom for helping us find the best sprigs.

Same time next year? 

Thought I'd start this report with a tongue twister.

Wow! What an awesome task to celebrate my 500th Goodgym good deed.

My favourite type of task: outdoors, lots of digging, with the sound of water nearby and kneeling and sitting on earth. We moved tree stumps, cut back hedges, uprooted ivy, I even managed to use my secateurs as a trowel....although as I said on several occasions I was missing my trowel.

Once over the shock of Amy turning up with my favourite cake baked by the amazing Georgeta, I was absolutely delighted with my unique hand decorated trowel medal...it is the most apt, and best medal I have ever received.

There is so much work to do supporting Friends of Ray Mill Island in transforming this beautiful spot by the River Thames so keep an eye out for future listings.

Thank you to everyone involved in planning my 'surprise' celebration and in particular to Georgeta and Amy.

Vikie, Didem and Sheila arrived at the Baby Bank this morning to see queues of people at the door either dropping off donations or collecting items requested. People were dropping off dozens of bags for their annual pyjama appeal, as well as huge quantities of clothes and toy donations. So we were straight into the thick of it, and were kept busy all morning just trying to keep some kind of order in the facility. Huge thanks to everyone who helped the team cope on this Frenetic Friday