We had a great turnout for our first session of the year at Rose Road including a special guest all the way from London, Ivo, the founder of GoodGym. We were tasked with sorting headbands which will be sold by the fundraising team at festivals during the summer. Many hands were needed as there were literally hundreds of every colour you could imagine and style. Yes crab is a style! In addition to the headbands we also had some creative hands working on a selfie frame of roses. We all agree our glue gunners did a fabulous job. A great indoor task for a chilly winters evening. We look forward to seeing what task Rose Road finds for us on our next visit!

A trio of merry litter pickers set to work clearing the paths around Rose Road before our main group task this evening. Within only half a mile we managed to fill a whole rubbish sack and left the area looking much nicer for parents and young people visiting the centre. The best part was we got to use the fancy robot bin that chomps the litter at the end! Who would litter when the public bin is so good?!?!!

We were all super excited for an indoor task tonight out of the cold helping Rose Road prepare for their Christmas Fair at the weekend. Rose Road provided the bags and we brought the enthusiasm! It was a very satisfying task getting the children's gift bags all ready for Santa to give out. We were an organised machine with myself, Abby, and Stephanie filling the bags in no time! Helen and Kathryn were the with the wrapping skills to get the tombola ready. We just had time to finish off labeling some of the children's present donations and putting some gift tags on the bottle tombola. Thanks to Chloe for keeping us hydrated with cups of tea and coffee too! We hope Rose Road's Christmas Fair is a huge success and look forward to helping again at the carol concert in a few weeks.

Another night of cleaning the buses, but this time the insides! We were very grateful for an almost indoor task since the chilly November weather seems to have finally arrived. We got to work cleaning and polishing the interior patio by particular attention to get all the dirt out of the runners that are used to clip wheelchairs into. This was no easy task and elbow grease a plenty was required! We did such a thorough job on the first bus we only had time to give the second bus a quick going over. The buses are already now to take the children and young people on lots more adventures. We’re sure it won’t be long before our services are required again!

A speedy clean up of the Rose Road entrance along Aldermoor Road to make sure it’s looking nice and tidy for families and visitors the centre. Fortunately a friendly cat kept me company in the cold though they were not at all helpful picking up the litter!

It was finally our time to shine (or the buses turn to shine) when it came to bus cleaning tonight! After a slightly unsuccessful attempt in winter due to quite literally freezing conditions we were hopefully tonight would be a triumph. Now the weather had other ideas and there was a storm alert issued shortly before we were due to start. Fortunately the storm held off so we remained dry-ish apart from Justin clearly trying to soak Abby chucking a bucket of water over a bus! We should have used Lauren to clean the hard to reach places as she had wings and not one pair but two! Well done Lauren on reaching your 100th task this evening with a double whammy of do gooding. Until next time Rose Road :)