At yesterday’s buzzing Welling Sparkle Christmas Market, we spent a merry hour with the brilliant team from Discover Welling, helping to run their retro fairground games.

Families loved the nostalgic, simple-but-fun games, and every penny raised goes towards the town's Christmas lights funded by Discover Welling.

Once the last prizes were won and the crowds drifted home, we helped pack the stall away. Then it was time to add even more sparkle to Welling by decorating the nearby flower bed that Discover Welling maintains: A herd of hand-crafted rustic reindeer, led proudly by red-nosed Rudolf and wrapped in twinkling festive lights, is now there for everyone to enjoy.

A big well done to Tamara (Tania on completing your first ever GoodGym task — fantastic to have you and your young helper with us! 🎄✨

Over the coming weeks we have a host of festive tasks on offer. We'd love to have you along!

Last night we had a busy and brilliant evening celebrating Luke 's 50th good deed, welcoming Manish to his first, and doing a poignant good deed - helping Discover Welling take down the Remembrance poppies along the high street.

When we did this task last year it was a struggle cutting through the cable ties in the finger-numbing cold.

This time, thanks to the eco-friendly reusable ties we’d used to put them up, and a much milder evening, the job was far easier!

Afterwards we found a big table at the pub for a lovely social with eats, drinks, lots of chat and laughter.

As well as forgetting to take any photos during the task, it turns out that we missed a few poppies too. But Julie was in the area this morning and collected them in her highly appropriate Royal British Legion bag.

The poppies and cable ties will be safely stored away so that Welling can pay its respects again next November ❤️

Each November, Discover Welling put up large poppies on lamp posts along Welling high street to mark Remembrance.

We teamed up with them again this year to help get the job done. Managers from the new Puregym in Welling came along too.

There was a strong and bitter wind conspiring against us, but working as two teams covering either end of the street, and with some brisk walking, we got the forty lamp posts poppy-fied in no time!

We'll be helping take the poppies down again after Remembrance Day, so why not come along and give us a hand?