Tuesday night is FoodCycle night and our fabulous team were out to support in all roles. Gill helped with the food collection before joiningvthe cookingvteam alongside Martin and two other FoodCycle regulars. While she started on a chocolately dessert Martin started cooking up a deliciously fragrant vegetable curry. Omar, full of smiles, joined the kitchen team and his skill as pot washer was greatly appreciated while Dee and Luqman helped out the hosting team with setting up the hall and serving the guests. It was a delicious meal with lots of empty plates and lots of empty crates to be returned to Sainsbury's afterwards. Well done team - we had some great feedback from the guests. You are really appreciated.

This week our group run was in partnership with This Girl Can's #LetsLiftTheCurfew campaign.

Now the clocks have changed the evenings are darker and this puts many women off exercising outside in the evenings as it can feel unsafe to do so.

GoodGym is a safe space to exercise outside in a friendly group throughout the winter months and so to spread the word, and encourage more women to join forces reclaim the streets at night, we decorated ourselves with bright lights ready for a colourful run around town on the way to our task.

We welcomed Arthur to his very first session with GoodGym and Luqman who had done a couple of community missions but hadn't attended a group run before. It was lovely to meet them both and have two new faces on the Wednesday night team! They both looked great with their lights on and did a great job running around town with us.

Our colourful lights were doubly appropriate for the occasion because it is Diwali and our task for the evening was helping the Sikh temple prepare for Diwali celebrations at the end of the week. We arrived ready to help give the kitchen a deep clean, mop the floors. vacuum the carpets and generally give the whole temple an autumn clean.

With nine of us working away we did a really thorough job and were rewarded with hot cups of chai before we departed to illuminate the dark streets once again to finish off our evening.