We joined other volunteers at the Roots4Life community hub for a litterpick around the local area.

The organisers asked our posse of four GoodGymers to head towards the station where there was a particularly untidy area to tackle.

We nattered and picked up litter along the road as we went, then spotted an area around an overflowing clothes bank that clearly needed some tlc.

There were clothes and shoes strewn all over the place with litter accumulated among them. We tidied all the clothing items into bags and hoped they would be collected before anyone rifled through them. The rubbish went into our litter bags. It looked so much better when we finished.

Meanwhile, Rachel who arrived later, litterpicked nearer to the hub with her little Goodgymer.

As the alloted time drew to a close we all headed back to Roots4Life where delicious homemade cakes and warming hot drinks awaited.

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A chill but dry Wednesday evening in November saw 6 GoodGym-ers meet at Charlton House for a gardening task at Charlton United Reformed Church.

After a quick warm up & a biscuit-related ice breaker we were a-wafer a run to the Church garden to meet our host for the task.

This involved lots of weeding as the beds, grass and gravel pathways had become fairly overgrown; helpfully we were well-prepared with trowels, forks etc so made good progress, leaving the area tidier & ready for winter. We had great advice from the team at the garden who assured we were clearing weeds only and none of the pre-planted flowers in the beds.

Great work team - until next week for making short(bread) work of the next task! (no more biscuit puns I promise....)