It's been a while since the gang have helped Creative Kids Arts Education Centre.So it was great to return to help out. Janet and Caprice met for the short run to the session. Emma, Sophie and Milly made their way to the task. They were met by Task Owner Cary who had the best task for them, getting the studio all christmassy!! 'Team Tree' was Janet and Caprice, they were tasked with building the 7ft christmas tree. Emma, Sophie and Milly aka 'Team Twinkle' They had the tricky task of untangling the Christmas lights. Once the tree was built, everyone got involved making it as bushy as possible with 'Team Twinkle' decorating with the lights. While the tree was getting all glitzy, Janet and Caprice helped out by taking out some recycling. 'Team Twinkle' did a cracking job, the tree looked stunning and it should do with three sets of lights! The final touch was everyone placed some cute teddy bears amongst the branches. We really hope the children love it. What a great session tonight, it really was fun and got everyone in the christmas spirit. Hopefully it won't be long before we come back to help Creative Kids. Watch this space.

I received a call from Cary, she was in desperate need of some help. Some burglars had broken into their festival trailer overnight. Luckily they didn't get a chance to steal anything, but they did break the sliding door, which means they could be back this evening.

Well, 4 of us dropped all we were doing on a Thursday afternoon, to make sure we could run over and empty the trailer for them, so the burglars wouldn't get a second chance.

In 30 mins the fabulous 4 had completed the job and bid their farewells, and ran off in 4 different directions feeling super good about themselves...and added another good deed to their tally!

Well done team!

The gang, with lots of new faces, gathered near the entrance to the Sovereign Center.

We welcomed Dominic and Nicole to their first GoodGym mission, although thanks to Tracy, they had heard about GoodGym from her Poole connections.

Angie and Star met us outside the Creative Kids studio and we split up into two groups. One was to help Star sort through musical equipment, and clear and area for a shelving unit to go in and then the musical instruments had to be sorted back into the shelves.

The other group was clearing out an area in the storage room to free up a shelving unit for the musical instruments. Then had to find space for costumes etc to go back into.

Lots of moving, shuffling, keeping our distance from each other and getting a good sweat on, and struggling to breathe with our masks on!!

But we got it all done in under an hour, Angie and Star were amazed and delighted!!

They would like our help more frequently on Saturdays moving forward, helping with moving equipment up and down before and after their performances.

WE'LL BE BACK!!!

Sarah, Daryl, Hannah and myself met up at Creative Kids in the Sovereign Center and helped their Orchestra bring down all their musical instruments and set up next door for a community performance.

A beautiful evening in Bournemouth brought together 14 runners looking to do good and do a bit of exercise along the way.

We welcomed back Sophie from last week, now a fully fledged member...hopefully you won't have to wait as long for your t-shirt as Phil!

It was Janet's first group run with us and she more than held her own on a testing route. She will be more than alright!

We also had Nicola and Kristina join us after taking a little break. Nicola managed to complete the London Marathon a few weekends ago and loved it too! Brilliant!

We set off through the gardens and down along the prom..and soon spotted out first photo opp next to a lifeguard tower with Bournemouth Pier as a backdrop. We enjoyed the nice flat terrain, mixed in with a little sand at a gentle pace, catching up and chatting with each other. We regrouped at Boscombe Pier...took a deep breath and powered up the steep incline on Sea Road and into Boscombe Town Centre where Cary was waiting for us inside the Sovereign Centre. She runs a charity called Creative Kids that run after school programs for children to help them express themselves by being creative through art.

After a quick briefing on what needed doing the gang soon started moving props, boxes and all types out of one unit and over to the next. This all on the roof of the Sovereign Centre, where none of us had even been before...yep we were a little excited!

We had to move gazeebos, boxes of decorations, marquee stands, chairs..you name it! It made taking photos pretty easy this evening...and of course the fact that everyone is so photogenic!!! Why so many backpacks??? Well Cary was so happy with the team that she gifted them some...after about a 1km of chafing and numerous attempts at wearing them in different ways, most just accepted the discomfort and embraced the feeling of gratitude instead!

The gang managed to do all the moving in a record time of 20 minutes! Saving Cary hours of work! With all that time spare we decided to extend out run home a little to include some hills and stairs...they begged for them...honestly!

We headed back down the way we came to Boscombe Pier, then up the stairs from Boscombe garden to the top of the overcliff...then back down again to the middle of the garden....David feeling the need for hills did a repeat of the stairs and the garden hill...why not right??!!!

We came back up the gardens again on looped back onto the Overcliff again and headed back towards Bournemouth Pier where we regrouped and got set to do our last hill. Neil and David still had enough energy to try to beat their PB on the Strava segment climb back to Flirt.....fingers crossed they managed it!

Thank you Mark for back marking for us, much appreciated. And thank you Caprice for some fun photos!

Good luck Daryl running the OX and to Nicola and Kristina running their 10k this weekend. Hope you guys enjoy it and tell us all about it next time!

Next week we are doing some therapeutic gardening just up the road. Come along!