This was our first session at Hook Lane Primary School after they contacted us to ask for some help.

Our group runners (starting from Crook Log Leisure Centre in Welling, and Costa Coffee in Blackfen), along with those arriving directly, met at the school gates where teacher Dan gave us a warm welcome.

The task: put up bamboo screening around the perimeter fence of the school field.

After sawing through a few pesky branches that were in our way, we fell into a good rhythm working in pairs; unrolling the screening between us, then one person holding it with the other fixing it in place. Meanwhile another pair started on the next length.

Threading the cable ties through the canes was a tricky business but after a while we found the knack 👌.

We nearly came a cropper putting up one roll back-to-front, but eagle-eyed Dan spotted our rookie error just in time!

Along with Dan and his brother Sam, we covered a long stretch in our alloted hour.

After a photo opportunity at the fairytale castle, we headed home, some of us running and some walking 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️.

It was great having Simon with us for his first GoodGym good deed 🥳.

The school has lots more tasks lined up for our future visits, so why not come along and help make good things happen!

Hope to see you next time.

Some of us arriving by bike and others doing a lovely run through the park from the leisure centre, we had a fun evening cutting back low-hanging branches and building new dead hedging at Holy Trinity Lamorbey Primary School.

It's so rewarding doing tasks like this, supporting organisations that find it hard to get the work done otherwise.

And who knew that creating hedges from sticks, branches and tree cuttings could be so addictive. We didn't want to go home!

We'll be back again in July. Meanwhile, next week we're heading to Hook Lane Primary School for the first time, to help spruce up their outdoor learning area. We've put in a request for more sunny weather, so come and join us.

When Holy Trinity Lamorbey Primary School had an unsafe tree cut down they wanted to make use of all of the wood. Part of their plan is to create wildlife habitats in the school grounds and we went along to help.

After a short walk from our meeting point at the leisure centre, we met Jane, the vice principal, who briefed us about what to do.

We got busy breaking and cutting up the smaller branches into roughly half-metre lengths, and constructing them into brash piles.

(In case, like me, you were wondering about the word 'brash', its definition in this context is 'loose rubbish such as tree or hedge clippings'. You get to learn all sorts of things on GoodGym tasks!)

These piles will provide shelters and homes for wildlife such as hedgehogs, bugs and perhaps even frogs 🦔🐛🪲🐸.

It was surprisingly physical work and by the end of our hour we'd put in some good effort, had a great dose of fresh air and enjoyed lots of nice chat.

We're back at the school next week to work on the outdoor kitchen area, cutting back overgrown trees and bushes to give more headroom for the children to play. Come along and join us!

Tomorrow Welling Station will celebrate its 130th birthday and 200 years of the railway.

Tonight we ran, walked and cycled to the station to help with final preparations for their party.

First we swept 🧹🧹🧹 the approach road where stalls and displays will be put up. So many cigarette butts!

Then we sealed goody bags that will be given to winners of a competition to design railway-themed posters 🚂. All the lovely entries are on display in the ticket hall. We hope passengers will pause to appreciate them as they pass through the area.

Next, we pinned flyers promoting local community organisations onto a noticeboard that will be on display at the Discover Welling stand 📌📌📌. Of course, we included some GoodGym leaflets!

And we watered the flowerbeds 🌻🌷.

It was great to have Julie with us for her first GoodGym task. Having worked with us through Discover Welling on many tasks, we're thrilled to have you as part of the GG team.

The station team could not have been more welcoming and friendly. They've worked really hard to put up bunting, stuff goody bags ready to give away to travelers, and get things looking fab.

Happy birthday Welling Station 🎈🥳!

Tonight we made a return visit to Hurst Community Centre, this time to clear leaves from the outdoor area used by the nursery school.

It was a proper workout raking the soggy leaves into piles, scooping them into bags, and moving the bags aside for disposal.

Thirty five bags in fact!

It was a lovely evening to be outdoors and we worked hard to finish the job in just an hour. Now it's ready for the nursery children to enjoy tomorrow.

After posing for a group photo we headed off.

It was to fab to have Greg with us, welcome to GoodGym and congrats on your first good deed 👏.

This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.