Four people signed up for the last community mission of the January Challenge: a 1pm litter pick along Kingsway North.

• One signed out after a Saturday morning double good deed session. She needed a nap!
• Nicky decided to start an hour early so that she could get home quicker.
• Paul Kelly and Leanne started an hour late so that they could have lunch and visit a windmill between tasks.

On average, they probably all arrived on time...

Nicky found lots of her litter on the way to the meeting point and had already filled her bag to the brim before she reached Kingsway North... mostly with a giant Peppa pig calendar.

Paul and Leanne found Nick and Barbara on the way to their pick - who seemed to be racing around York collecting last minute squares on their bingo cards. They did make it to Kingsway North and got most of the way down the road before their bags became heavy enough to leave by the bins for the council to collect.

They all went home for a well earned rest having claimed the title of the last GG Yorkies standing in the January Challenge!

GoodGym: Your mission if you choose to accept it is to create a team of volunteers for the inaugral York Community Woodland parkun without letting everyone know that there is such a thing as the York Community Woodland parkun and definitely not letting anyone know when it is!

By means of a diversionary task for the York Knavesmire parkrun (a deception so good that Lucy actually did volunteer for the Knavesmire) and a WhatsApp group that started out life as the Secret Seven before becoming the Furtive Fourteen we gathered a band of the Trusted.

Despite keeping everything hush hush until 8pm on Friday nearly 350 folk turned up and the car park was soon full.

Team GG course checked, marshalled, car parked, funnel managed and barcode scanned and made sure the event was a cracker - a beautiful way to start the last day of the January challenge!

Ten terrific goodgymers turned up to Woodthorpe forest school on a dark Friday evening. We made our across the field and split into two groups. A team of 4 headed over to shift some woodchip and the rest of us tackled some flowerbeds.

The flowerbeds were soon looking more brown than green, with only a few wormy casualties. The woodchip team finished off and helped finish weeding some flowerbeds that had been hiding from us. We just about had time to dig some holes to re-home a couple of trees. Some of us headed to the pub, and others thought that home and a blanket sounded a much better idea.