Making the most of the of the evening sun we headed to the Bevy. We welcomed back Kitty!

The Bevy Pub– More Than a Pub! The Bevy is the only community run pub on an estate sited in Moulsecoomb at the margins of Brighton & Hove city. As well as pouring a good pint they run events for the whole community including a Kids Club, Disability Disco and Seniors Club. They are struggling for funds but still providing support and activities for the local community, thanks to the support of everyone for More than a Good cause! 😉

We had a longer run of approx 7k with a sting in the tail with a hill at the end!

We were helping master gardener Dave, a very much-loved member of The Bevy community, with the community garden where the produce grown is used for feeding the Seniors Club. The GoodGym Brighton’s group got busy weeding the bushes of berries, under great coordination from Frances, Nicola, Jane and Stefania for tools provision and time keeping! Some of us dug out compost to use as mulch to renjuvinate the soil all around those well managed bushes that are still gifting The Bevy’s chef with succulent little fruits to make apple & berries crumbles. While others prepared soil beds with recycled cardboards and carried out buckets of green waste compost up the sloping garden to improve the fertility and health of the soil, so reducing weed growth in the future. A smaller team, including Pippa, Liam and Ben watered the upper flowery allotment and picked up the grown veg, including beans and squashes that I remember GoodGym volunteers planted here last spring.

In a short time, we made a bit difference to Dave’s garden and left him with a big indulged smile on his face. You, Dave, Warren and all The Bevy’s community volunteers are greatly contributing to the future resilience of such a Good pub!

The Bevy Pub– More Than a Pub! An engaged community of friends and volunteers believing in a shared social good purpose. GoodGym Brighton is proud to befriend you, and we will be happy to return in winter for some painting!

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Brighton Pride is an un-miss able event in our city, to be proud of! This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ‘Brighton Gay Pride March’ organised by the Sussex Gay Liberation Front (SGLF) in July 1973. Proud to contribute to the city-wide “Pride at 50 Campaign”, we run around Brighton city centre to spot as many posters as possible on the lampposts and tag the photos of the first Sussex Gay Liberation Front's ‘Brighton Gay Pride March'. The campaign is meant to remember and uplift some of the trailblazers whose actions ignited, and continue to build, the Pride movement.
GoodGym certainly contributed with (physical) movement 😊!

We also did some litter picking to tidy up and clean our seafront preparing to host the wave of visitors this Pride weekend. This was a warmup for our GoodGym community mission organised on Sunday morning together with Brighton &Hove Tidy Up Team. Balance fitness exercises up and down the stairs on the lower seafront was our cool down.

Welcome Daniela and Ebrah

Join us this weekend to be proud to celebrate Brighton Pride!

Here are the details of the foyer exhibition “Pride at 50” celebrating the Sussex Gay Liberation Front.

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We like to “step up” on Cat’s Creep to help the Round Hill Society and, on this occasion, we supported the community volunteers in their Big Clean Up. We cleared Cat Creep from the overgrown bushes, tackled graffiti tagging, removed carpets of ivy from Mayo Road, and revamped electrical boxes to their original colours. Lucy returned to help us from the Library of Things with a new tool, the edge trimmer, creating some alternative entertainment for Councillor Pete West who joined GoodGymers Frances, Jane, Nicola, and Edel to enjoy some trimming fun action!

Top job done by GoodGymers Rosie, Kitty, Sarah, and Michelle has given a new refreshing look to the lovely pathway that joins Round Hill Crescent with Wakefield Road - well used by the local residents and often populated by the protected tods! GoodGym Brighton got already an invitation for helping the Round Hill Green Spaces Project – this has just got planning permission to go ahead thanks to the unsatiable hard work and patient determination of two well-known local legends, Jane and Dominic!

5 GoodGym-ers ran 1km (a hyper-local mission!) to help out at the Waterloo Street Community Garden, a much loved community space 100% staffed by volunteers, 100% organically tended and 100% funded by donations and applied-for grants.

Shimmering with true secret garden vibes, the space is accessed through an ornate arch guarded by a statue with legendary local status. Once inside, you cannot help but be cheered by the lush tropical palms and colourful blooms nestled in an array of pots lining the secluded courtyard.

We donned our gardening gloves while the cheerful and industrious volunteers already hard at work set us to task moving and sweeping, weeding and cleaning. As we worked, the group explained more about their upcoming visit from a respresentative from the Royal Horticultural Society's 'It's Your Neighbourhood' programme. This programme supports local communities in greening community spaces through support, mentoring and connecting communities with network of other like minded groups across the country. Registration to the scheme is also incredibly useful for small, grassroots (pun intended) groups in applying for ongoing funds to keep their spaces thriving.

The brewing storm clouds finally burst just as we finished work, giving the garden a much needed water and the GG crew a refreshing run home.

Excellent pun courtesy of Philippa :)