Before the Southampton Action event the team put out a plea for donations to be made of men's shoes and clothes as they were experiencing a shortage which may have meant some clients would have to leave with nothing.

I rallied around and managed to get some donations of shoes and brand new mens trousers helping the team help more people

Fresh off the back of this mornings tasks our eager goodgymers headed to Southampton city farm to help out at their spring fayre.

We were quickly put to work, taking payments for visitors, photocopying and distributing treasure hunt maps, sharpening pencils and handing out prizes.

We got to enjoy looking around the farm and the several stalls and boogying to Southampton Ukelele Jam!

Wilson helped join the clear up crew, taking down gazebos, putting chairs out, taking down bunting and emptying the bins!

A truly great day supporting the fantastic farm with the sun shining and record breaking attendance! We look forward to being back on the farm tomorrow for more maze building adventures!

We were back with the absolutely fabulous Southampton Action this morning helping them setup for their monthly client event, distributing essential items to male refugees living within hotels in the city.

We always know we are going to get a workout when we help out the guys at Southampton Action and this time was no different. There were far fewer volunteers in general today meaning there was more to be done between those of us who attended.

We cleared the rooms of any items belonging to clear, moved furniture, unloaded the van and cars full of items and shifted everything upstairs before being tasked with setting out a room full of suitcases for clients to come and choose so they can have dignity with somewhere other than a bin bag to hold their belongings.

We got a system in place categorising the baggage (we had flashbacks to Southampton marathon) and before long had a very professional looking market style room for the clients to choose their cases from.

It was as ever a humbling event and we greatly enjoyed our time. We will be back very soon.

Dried off from flyering we were joined by six other goodgymers for an indoor session as the weather was too treacherous for goat mountain escapades.

It was lovely to also welcome Bethan for the first time this evening!

We were tasked with doing something very unique this evening, making seed bombs out of clay, mud and soil for the farm to distribute at a community event.

A small group ventured into the woods to retrieve some soil before heading in. We then had to remove twigs and worms from the soil before mixing the soil with clay and water and eventually the seeds.

We then rolled these into small ping pong sized balls before removing them for safe keeping.

We were tasked with making 60 but Abby counted 217!!

Definitely a unique task and we were even rewarded with cake 🍰

We were back out again this evening helping to deliver some of the 10,000 leaflets Tom has for us to distribute.

The weather was torrential and as we are distributing more leaflets we are finding we have to walk considerably further to make it back to the farm in time!

We were joined by Laura for the first time who did an awesome job braving the elements for a first task!

Most amusing part of this task was spotting some grafitti marked Wilson. Who knew we had banksy amongst taskforce? 😂We got back to the farm with a little time to spare before the main task 😊

We were happy to be back on the farm in the sunshine this morning helping them to embark on their new project of building a maze out of raised planters.

The farm has received funding to build the maze to help encourage community volunteering and more people to engage in nature.

Tom was discussing with us how the plan is to have the planters acting as a food bank of vegetables for people to come and take whilst educating people about plants and how to use them.

Steph and I were employed as the muscle again to begin with, shifting the heavy planks of wood over to the maze site. Mini goodgymer helped Tom carry the stakes. Halfway through mini goodgymer and I swapped with a member of the public who was also volunteering to water all the plants whilst Steph continued helping assembling the wood to make the raised planters.

It was exceptionally hot so half way through the session Tom treated us to cake and tea!

Well refreshed we got back to work with Steph helping finish off the planters and mini goodgymer and I helping lay cardboard in the planters and put away some ground sheets.

It was a really good and interesting session and we look forward to seeing how the maze takes shape over the coming weeks.