Ruro, Ros, Liz, Paul, Ian, Nikki and Ingrid braved a cold night for a community mission at Croydon Refugee Day Centre. We gathered at our usual meeting place and were delighted to see fellow GoodGymer Conroy and have a quick catch up.

After making our way to the centre, we were met by Simon who gave us our tasks for the evening. These included ensuring clothes were in the correct size order on the rails, were labelled and removing any summer clothing. The session ended with us moving all the rails into the storage room. This is more of a squeeze with each visit, we're not sure whether there are more rails or the room is getting smaller!

After saying our goodbyes to Simon, we made our way back to the meeting spot.

Liz, Ros and Ingrid joined members of the East Croydon Community Organisation (ECCO) on a thankfully rain free night to help tidy up the flower beds along the Boulevard.

Tasks included sweeping leaves, litter picking, weeding and planting flowers in a memorial garden.

At the end of the evening we had collected 13 bags of litter and leaves for the council to collect.

We said our goodbyes, wished each other a Merry Christmas and looked forward to many more successful missions in the New Year.

Ian, Paul and Ingrid met with Sue for another gardening session at St. Augustine's.

The weather wasn't as bad as expected and we soon got stuck into the various tasks.

Ian and Ingrid dug up a Red Hot Poker plant which wasn't flowering and taking up valuable space in the bed.

Paul emptied a compost bin, filling boxes with the composted material. We then all moved the bin to a new location and emptied another bin to reveal the good compost at the bottom. This was then put into boxes for future use.

Ingrid did a litter pick, while Sue, Ian and Paul cleared leaves which were blocking drains.

We then said our goodbyes and made our way home.

Thank you to Paul for the pun!

Regular GoodGym members Nikki, Ros and Ingrid welcomed Ruro, who joined them for her first session at the Croydon Refugee Day Centre.

Centre volunteer Simon welcomed us and gave us the tasks for the evening. These included sorting and bagging up summer clothing for next year. Rehanging clothing and our favourite final job of moving the hanging rails from the hall into a small storage room.

We completed all tasks successfully and Simon thanked us with a Kit-Kat. We look forward to visiting again in the new year.

I had my first experience today of planting trees. It was great fun. Learnt how to be a successful tree planter, chatted to some lovely people and made a difference to the local community. Getting out in the fresh air. I highly recommend it to anyone and will definitely be doing it again.

Four good gymers braved the cold weather to help local refugees to find warm clothes.

Ian, Ollie and Liz enjoyed a brisk jog to the centre, whilst Ingrid arrived at the task earlier.

The task was to remove the empty coat hangers and to tidy the rails, so that the clothes were arranged in size order.

The final task was to move the rails into the store cupboard.

Well done team!