What a way to end the day! With the of the team headinh over to the Community Fridge to tackle a mountain of crates and recycling. It was a perfectly timed operation: we had one early bird getting us ahead of the game, a solid middle shift of organising and box-scrubbing, and a late-comer to finish things off with a thorough vacuum. Crate teamwork!

Washed, cleaned and tidied up after the main event- preparing food for all.

Today I had a brambley time but inroads were made - to be continued. The recipient was pleased with the progress made, that is the main goal.

We always enjoy being back at Critical Support in Mitcham, and tonight James had plenty of donations for us to sort, ready to be distributed to local charities. These included Easter eggs, clothing, loaves of bread, fruit, veg and lots more. Our eight Goodgymers hopped to it and whizzed through the jobs in an impressively fast time. We hope to be back soon!

Thoroughly enjoyed helping out the fabulous team at Mitcham Community Orchard & Garden and learned new skills for sawing, chopping and bashing woody broccoli stalks into fibrous pieces for composting 💪 Who’d have thought there was so much to it! 👌👊 Huge thanks 🙏 to Ms K, Ms R, Mr C and, oh dear I can’t remember (or display) all of your names 😳 but all were so incredibly welcoming, knowledgeable and friendly and the experience and fresh air was truly invigorating and socially enriching - particularly as my day job involves sitting lonesome at a pc screen all day! Highly recommend this beautiful and very productive garden for doing much good in the community. Thoroughly enjoyable and fun morning, and I hope to return again soon for one of their Action Saturdays 👍🙌😊

On the first group task of Spring we were blessed with a dry evening and a gardening task. Having cleared the area of litter, the team got stuck in to weeding, pruning and digging out the flower beds round Martin Way Methodist Church. Getting rid of some of the more persistent roots needed real effort and team support, but that is what we are so good at. So by the end of the evening, all the beds were cleared, the anti-weed netting was down and secured, and we could all be satisfied with a job well done.