Over a cuppa and some delicious cake, some fantastic new contacts were made whilst spreading the word about our Missions with DBS-checked volunteers now ready to support individuals aged 50+ with practical tasks across Merton.

Bring on the lunchtime dog walks and errands.

A quick bit of litter picking on today's travels!

Edit from other volunteers: Elsewhere various Goodgymmers from Merton, Kingston and Barnet joined in to support The Great British Spring Clean Up - what a great weekend and reason to get outside, we encourage everyone to get involved locally to help, this event is running until 6 April although why not continue with regular litter picking efforts whenever you can. more details here: https://www.keepbritaintidy.org/get-involved/support-our-campaigns/great-british-spring-clean

Lovely morning for a litter pick, pre downpour. I bumped into the rubbish men en-route round the park, who offered me a job! Thankfully they took the full bag of rubbish I'd collected, replacing it with a new one which I half filled on the return to base.

Elsewhere others had also bin getting in on the task!

Grabbed the litter picker for my lunchtime walk, andloaded up a small bin bag on a 3km wander.

Today 4 goodgymers, on a lovely frosty day spent some time tiding up their local area by doing a litter pick.

After a late night--mid morning a few goodgymers were still able to get out battling the elements to give their local area a bit of a tidy up. A worthwhile womble around, minus the windmill!!