We gathered outside Glass Mill this evening not wanting to get to used to the warmth inside, well that was my reasoning when I arrived first. Before we set off to RUSS, we had a moment to celebrate our achievements in the January Challenge!!

Alicia and I, set off first and nearly beat the rest of the group to the task. Steve very kindly putting the group through their paces with a warm up and run to the task.

We arrived at the task and soon found Ollie who was in charge of giving us our instructions for the evening. It a good old fashioned GG task of digging and moving the soil. The area we started before Christmas is nearly complete so it was time for us to move onto a new area of the garden. Post-task we were treated to tea and biscuits before we set off back to Glass Mill.

It was great to have Alicia along for her first group run and following on from a very muddy community mission in Blythe Hill Fields. We hope to see you again soon!

Next week, we are heading over to Senior's! Don't forget to sign up, it's an indoor task.

After a quick warm up of practicing picking up the trees and then throwing them onto the giant piles, it was time to set off to find some abandoned Christmas trees.

My group branched out a little too far and ended up separated after the first road. After searching high and low for abandoned trees it was soon time to head to out meeting point to be reunited.

Only 5 days later than last year and oh so many less trees!! We still relocated 12 Christmas trees to recycling piles at Hilly Fields. These Christmas trees will be used to make woodchip for our local parks.

It was also an evening on celebrations, it's 9 years that we've been doing good in the borough!! Happy 9th Birthday!

It was time for the big event, our favourite task of the year and that's putting the Christmas decorations up at Seniors, not going for drinks at the Blythe Hill Tavern (although that comes a close second)! We eagerly headed up the hills to Senior's wearing our flashing scrunchies to draw attention to us even more.

Paul and Jacqueline had arrived earlier than us (it's like the start of the dream...) and had started putting the blue and silver tree up in the dance hall.

The rest of us quickly divided into groups and found a role from untangling lights to hanging tinsel to decorating the second tree.

Time really flies when you're having fun or wearing all the tinsel, it was time to hang the last decorations and take our group photo! Then onto the Blythe Hill Tavern for celebratory Christmas drinks.

I would like to say a huge thank you for all the hard work that you do for the community groups we support - you're all amazing!!