Due to frozen ground we'd had a change around of tasks and it was another week of finding those abandoned Christmas Tree's around the borough.

We split into groups and tackled the longer roads around Hilly Fields which my logic thought the far end people might not have wanted to drag them all the way to the drop off point but no success.

Then we headed to Ladywell which is usually prime Christmas tree area but not the usual success their either.

We didn't meet the lofty heights of last weeks 30 trees but we did smarten up the streets of Lewisham by finding one tree!! Well done Paul, you saved the task and made sure we didn't go home empty handed.

Welcome Louise to your first group run, hope you enjoyed the session despite the lack of abandoned Christmas trees!

See you all next week!

On a particularly cold Monday evening in Lewisham, only the strong could be found braving the elements to gather homeless Christmas trees: that’s GoodGym!!

In order to maximise our impact, once approaching Hilly Fields the group split into 3 teams (captained by Darryl, Paul, and Steve) before proceeding to patrol their respective areas in search of discarded pine.

Despite the park already sporting 4 pretty big piles, a power hour of tree retrieval delivered a total of 28 specimens. But what of the (strictly friendly) competition between teams..? Well, the results were:

Team Paul: 7 trees Team Darryl: 9 trees Team Steve: 12 trees - congrats!

There was just enough time for a reunited group ascent of Hilly Fields, and a lovely moonlit view of Canary Wharf, before our return to Glass Mills

Our coldest group run of the year so far and 10 brave goodgymers gathered at Glass Mill ready to do good. It was a last minute change of task due to bulbs not arriving in time at Florence Green.

We made our way up to The Albany and set about choosing between weeding and litter picking! There was a significant amount of both weeding done and litter picked with the area looking much tidier than when we arrived. Or so we hope, it was quite dark!!

The group got smaller and smaller by the time we got to Glass Mill. Time for a quick stretch and then home to warm up!

Another week, another lot of flyers for Age Exchange that needed to be delivered to spread the word about Age Exchange's Christmas Fayre. It's happening on the weekend if anyone wants to pop by!

We all gathered at Glass Mill and made our way up the hill to restart the flyering where we left off last week. At that point I left the group as I needed to rest my ankle so anything could have happened after I split the group into 2 and set them on their way!!

The groups continued where we left off and got most of the flyers delivered. The rest Paul very kindly delivered this week.

Hopefully they have a great turnout! Next week we are off to Florence Green to plant bulbs.