Two cages of donations sorted by us Good Gym Peeps. Good work!

A mixed bag as always - today featured many substandard shoes and mondo mankey socks!

Halloween making a decent appearance once more as you can see in our pics. (Some people really make an effort 🎃👻.)

Still loads of winter cuddlies in the mix too. Sad not much designer stuff today - so less cash for the charity. Fingers crossed for more EBay friendly things next time.

Ann, Caroline & Simon.

There was plenty to celebrate as we joined the Friends of Danson Park this morning.

It was Megan Maria's first GoodGym session 👏. Lovely to have you with us Megan!

It was Marianna's tenth good deed 🥳, paving the way to join our Task Force team, helping to run our amazing group.

Then it was Marianna's daughter, Veronica's birthday 🎈. There was high anticipation about the birthday cake awaiting her later in the day. Veronica took the lovely black and white photo of her mum and her brother on her new birthday-present camera 📷.

And Ashton, wearing his brand new black GG t-shirt marking 50 good deeds, arrived having completed his first ever parkrun 🏃‍♂️.

Hi fives all round 👐!

And what about the task? We had a lovely time in the sunny woodland area, laying woodchips along one of the paths. There was much shoveling, barrowing and raking to cover a long stretch of the path.

After returning all of the tools to their store we headed to The Stables for a cuppa and chat.

Combining this kind of activity with time outdoors and friendly people is a real mental pick-me-up. We'll be back there again on the second Saturday of June. Do come and join us, and new members are always welcome (feel free to bring a friend if you are nervous about taking that first step on your own).

If you're a parkrunner or parkwalker this task is just a stone's throw away from Danson parkrun. An ideal parkrun-GoodGym double-header!

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!

I been seeing this path what is a old sudway and all ways full of litter and leafes everywhere and is always been there and today i want to do some thing because I now have my black t shirt for do 50 deeds and to celebrate I did some cleaning I done about 5 to 6 bags and did my best to clear some of the tree litter with the picker to see is qricker but is did work as much but I got a dust pan and rake to help with that # good gym Bexley

We joined the Friends of Lesnes Abbey and Woods for their monthly conservation session.

The group's work each month is guided by the parks manager who this time had asked us to clear litter at the far side of the woods, before heading to The Heath to work on restoring the natural vegetation there.

So we loaded litter pickers, bin bags and loppers into two wheelbarrows and headed off to the litter troublespot. If you have been to Lesnes Abbey Woods you'll know there are some very steep climbs, and pushing the wheelbarrows up them was a good workout! We were rewarded with glorious patches of bluebells all around.

When we got to the appointed spot the cow parsley was so tall that despite our best efforts we struggled to find any rubbish 👀. Most likely a job for another day when the plants have died back.

We made our way through the woods - litterpicking as we went, and loads more bluebells en route - to The Heath where we set about cutting back holly, bracken and other plants to let the heather thrive. It was lovely getting busy in the sunshine.

We'll be back again next month. Perhaps we'll see you there?

We joined the hi-viz team at Lesnes Abbey Woods parkrun to marshal and cheer the junior runners and scan their finishing tokens.

The some of the runners had decorated the starting line with chalk messages of 'You are amazing' and 'May the 4th Be With You' to spur everyone on.

The smiling children and parents are a great motivation to get up and out on a Sunday morning. Why not give it a go?