It was an emotional rollercoaster for Gramps and GG Haringey this week. Tasks got postponed, there were illnesses, work duties, train strikes, and a football match stacked against the team.

Luckily, ever-faithful Laura from the Friends of Tottenham Green was able to step-in and our task for the night could go ahead. A huge thank you to Laura for accommodating us last minute, and to Gramps for organising that last minute while unwell!

Nurjehan and Veronika got to work with litter picking in a special location around some benches. There was a lot of litter to contend with, but they left it looking spick and span.

Meanwhile, Dan, Šana, and Charlie were armed with spades and an edging tool and were given the task of edging up the grass around one of the footpaths. Over the years, the grass had covered up a thin silver line that marked the edge of the path, but the team uncovered it again and even used the grass and soil we dug up to fill in some tyre tracks.

All that was left to do was take a group photo, tidy away our tools and head on home.

Daryl, Diane, Paulin, Sam and Šana arrived St Faith's Community Centre to help the GROAD volunteers setup the weekly Monday Open House and take in the generous donations from the general public.

Diane and Šana concentrated inside with setting up the main hall, whilst Daryl, Paulin and Sam took in and sorted the donations as the came through. These donations would be used for future Open Houses, but for now they live in Shed 2.

We are pretty much at full capacity after two Sundays of operation.

This bank holiday Monday 9 GGers met to team up with Beautify Balham to do a huge litter pick on the National Big Help Out day.

It was great to have Lily along for her first session - welcome to the group!

Together we ran to Balham where we met up with the rest of the team, got ourselves kitted out with litter pickers and bags, and headed off to our allocated area.

With Lorna leading the way to the leisure centre we picked up along the roads of Balham, finding all manner of plastic and other rubbish.

We picked solidly for an hour and had lots of interest from passers by keen to know what we were up to - hopefully we didn't look too much like we were doing community service!

We finished off with several full bags of rubbish and the streets of Balham looking cleaner and clearer of plastic. After all that work we were treated to a free glass of bubbly from the wine shop round the corner as a reward. As we sat in the sun we discussed parkrun, racing, and of course the coronation got a mention or two!

Next week our timings are back to normal and we're off to Providence House youth centre to help with their outside space. You can sign up for more Monday fun right here!. Hope to see you then. Have a lovely week, all.

Well done to the fearless four who dragged themselves out on a moderately miserable Monday. It takes more than a shower of rain to stop Goodgym from showing some love to the community and there's no day for love quite like Valentine's Day! Flowers were far from our minds tonight though as it was all about the leaves for us. We made sure we smiled as we piled talking through holiday plans and Winter Olympics highlights. I definitely think the curling had inspired some of that sweeping action....

This unbeleafable effort didn't rake long and we were soon leaving our Valentine's gift of fourteen bags filled to the brim with love... (well, leaves...)

Welcome back to Goodgym Caron and well done Goodgym Wandsworth (from a not so secret admirer!)