Our wonderful Amy is taking on more responsibility at the Stirchley Community Market and so she led us all in a team building task setting up a market stall to see how many pieces we had!!

Laura and Sofeen had put up the stall before so quickly took to assembling the pieces and showing us what to do. It felt like an escape room or crystal maze puzzle!! With Laura's memory and a sort of helpful photo Amy had - we managed to get it together! Abigail and Chris were excellent organisers, getting the pieces ready and coming up with solutions.

The hardest part of the day was putting the heavy metal pieces back quietly while a class was in session in the community centre! We also kept having the door closed on us. Quite the team building experience.

Srinivas joined us in Stirchley for the first time and did amazingly on our 3k run. Hope to see you again!!

Shout out to Veronika who cycled to the mission and then did a run with us! Duathlon vibes.

A typically hectic morning setting up the Stirchley Community Market with bright sunshine from the sky and our volunteers! Amy, Laura, Morwenna, Eve, Christina, Josie and Sofeen came together to put up bunting and balloons and build the outdoor stalls. Josie did some litter picking around the library community garden finding two big packs of lamb! The task was to make the venue look like a birthday had thrown up on it and GoodGym came through 💪🏼 🎉

Big thanks to everyone who came to help set up and down - there’s always plenty to do but your impact is definitely felt and appreciated!

We joined Moseley in Bloom for their third gardening session of the year, planting new daffodils ‘ Narcissus 'Tête-à-tête' around the edges of the village Green and clearing a planting bed which had become overgrown with wild garlic and needed some TLC.

It was a lovely sunny day, a neighbour bought us vimto and water and we were offered homemade cake afterwards, a Sunday morning well spent!

Tonight, was the GoodGym Xmas do! We did a litter pick around the Jewellery Quarter. Before being greeted by carol singers in 1000 Trades.

We then headed to Cathedral Square for more festivities.

Three GoodGym volunteers headed to Stirchley Baths on the blustery day to help run the Stirchley Community Market! Amy and Sofeen set up tables and helped the community cafe bring in their stock. Michelle joined later in the afternoon and was a star cleaning up tables and giving out stickers! We enjoyed the market with Santa visiting and two choir performances! Set down was then swiftly done for us to all go home and hide from the storm! That night we were all so tired not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse!