Two regular Goodgym legends (and me!) cruised their way to Colchester Foodbank to give it a good clean. Sophie, with her eye for detail and cheerful focus, ensured that the front reception area was sanitized and vacuumed but also that the hot water urn was as shiny as can be! A great task as she approaches 30 good deeds!

Meanwhile, the warehouse floors were met with methodological and meticulous sweeping and moping as Frazer, who is putting in impressive running mileage (and who never forgets to turn off his Strava on trains!!!), added to his workout by getting fit whilst doing good.

Last night also marked my last task as Area Activator. It is my second time moving away from being the Trainer/Area Activator and this time for good. Since the pandemic ended the numbers of Goodgym participants has been much lower which ultimately is my responsibility. In the early days when I took over as Trainer I spent many hours seeking tasks, meeting with charity managers, marketing staff, council officers, borough homes managers and those hours paid off resulting in a regular group of tasks and a system which I created whereby many charities could contact me for tasks and I regularly checked in with them to double check. Those relationships with charities are too many to list - but I can sincerely say that I have contacted every charity in Colchester and a little bit beyond (Tendring)!

So I am proud to be stepping away and it is time for a fresh, new approach and a positive change - for Goodgym Colchester to be community led and run is the new aim - so it is time for those who appreciate the unique philosophy of Goodgym to keep it alive in Colchester. If you want to be part of it come along to this planning party event on Sunday.

On a calm evening we managed to leaflet St Mary's estate to share news of an important fundraising event for Headway . As we delivered we chatted about Sophie's experience of performing in a signing language choir at the Royal Albert Hall!!

Also please come along to discuss the future of Goodgym in Colchester on the 1st of September

On a scorching hot evening our depleted team of Sophie and I took a light jog down to Worsnop house for one our our borough homes jobs.

A quick sip of water, then down to some grouting between the pavement stones and clearing our weeds. In short time we made a much clearer space, before a stroll back to town and chat about weddings, jobs and what life is all about.

As always nice to get out and do some good, onto the next task...

Goodgym cleaned up the foodbank in flash, on a warm night of chatting with odd and surely accidental innuendo!

There was no bicycle race to get there as others arrived on foot, but once there it was Goodgym heaven for everyone. Goodgym has one vision and wants to be helpful - one thing is certain, we will rock you with our do gooding. Some days I think 'these are the days of our lives' and tonight we chatted about Sophie getting engaged. Congrats from all of goodgym!

The reason we help the foodbank is because they are under pressure to help the community in hard times but so many volunteers wake up each day and think "don't stop me now"!

Is this the Queen of reports or what?! (how many song titles can you spot?)