In glorious sunshine it was a task of two halves at the Community Hospice gardens this morning.

Working on the children's outdoor play area, some of us pulled up a weed membrane to allow the soil underneath to return to nature. It took heavy-duty effort and a coordinated approach to get it up. A proper workout 💪💪💪.

Elsewhere we set about tidying up the overgrown flower bed to give a better view of the play area from the rest of the garden. After taking out a couple of shrubs and clearing the dead parts of last year's growth, we removed some substantial stones that had once been laid to create a kind-of rockery. More muscle power 🏋‍♀️🏋‍♂️!

Then, that's the idea of GoodGym, using our workouts to make a difference.

Shout out to Ashton as this was his 50th good deed. What a fab achievement in just six months since he joined 🥳🎈 !

This was the perfect session for GoodGym's partnership with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, getting out in nature while giving it a helping hand.

There's still plenty more to do to help Jason, the Hospice's head gardener, realise his plans to transform the grounds, so we'll be back again on the fourth Saturday of each month. Do come along and join us.

A few weeks ago one of our GoodGymers, Robert, pointed out a litter trap in a patch of shrubs along a footpath near his home in Welling. Today we teamed up with Julie from Discover Welling to tidy it up, then we planned to plant some bulbs in nearby flowerbeds.

Robert was away so couldn't join us, but with our litter-picking champion Ashton on the case we got the rubbish cleared up super-quickly... or so we thought!

Just as we were ready to move on to the gardening, we spotted an empty cider can lodged in one of the thorny bushes. A closer look revealed loads more empty cans - mostly all the same brand of cider - stashed into the bush. It was incredible.

Julie set off to plant the bulbs, but we decided to tackle the cans instead. While Johnny fished them out from the top, Ashton and I worked to pull them out from the bottom.

As we extracted them more and more clattered down through the branches. It was like coins cascading out of a slot machine!

We removed over 100 cans but will need to go back with a longer litter pick to reach the final few hiding deep in the prickly shrub.

Alongside the three bags full of cans, we filled three bags with other rubbish - including the usual food packaging, a shoe, a sock, and a very, large heavy loudspeaker.

It was a satisfying result, knowing that we'd refreshed this small patch of nature.

If there's a litter hotspot that you'd like some help tidying up, please get in touch.

This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.

We all met up outside the Welling Library ready to tackle the persistent weeds 🌱 sprouting alongside the building. Some of us run/walked, others came straight from work.

We set to work straight away and soon got the area looking spick and span. There were some lovely forget-me -nots growing along with some small yellow flowers 🌼 There is always a bonus when doing these tasks. You just have to look out for them. Joining forces with the WWF.