The Community Larder wanted our help to re-organise a couple of their storage cupboards and put away lots of donated provisions.

We quickly got into a rhythm with 'team unpack' grouping the cans and packets as we took them out of the crates, then over to 'team stack' who loaded them into the cupboards with the shortest shelf-lives at the front.

We got loads done in the hour, proving that many hands really do make light work.

And we possibly have a new mascot with our youngest helper deciding to call their teddy 'GoodGym'. 🧸 ❤️

What a lovely treat to be met by Santa as we arrived at our task last night 🎅 !

We were helping Julie and Alex from Discover Welling to take down the lamp post stickers promoting last weekend's Sparkle event and replace them with stickers thanking local organisations that had donated towards funding for the town's Christmas lights.

We got into a great routine:

• Peel off the old.

• Stick up the new.

• Power walk to next lamp post.

• Repeat.

All the while with Santa giving cheery greetings to passers-by.

Great exercise and very satisfying!

And it was lovely to see our logo featured, as a thank you for the help we've given time-wise (rather than pecuniary!).

Another fun task under under belts, and even the GoodGym Bexley name up in lights (well, technically 'on' lights, but close enough!)

Next Wednesday we're indoors, stuffing bags to be given away at the Sidcup Christmas Extravaganza. If you've been wondering about giving GoodGym a go, this is a great task to start with!

"Can you Splat-The-Rat?"

Not something GoodGymers get to say very often but it was part of our repartee as we helped run the fairground games on Discover Welling's stall at the town's Sparkle event.

On the other side of the stand we got to grips with the badge-maker, turning children's colourful drawings into badges and fridge magnets.

All this to the sound of Christmas favourites sung by the live band.

It was lovely to be part of this festive market helping lots of local families and residents enjoy the atmosphere.

After posing for a photo in front of the giant snow globe (we'd have been in it if the queue had been shorter!) we rounded things off with a coffee in a nearby cafe. It was then that we noticed Graham's t-shirt has lost its 'g'. Perhaps the rat stole it!

Well done Team oodgym!