Well done to Tessa, Kadriye and Alison, who joined me to tidy up Boyn Grove Park and nearby streets. The park and A4 offered rich pickings. We received thanks and cheers from grateful motorists and pedestrians, and also Georgeta, who was passing on her bike on her way to a GoodGym mission.

I also had a lovely chat with children at All Saints School, who were also doing some lunchtime litter picking.

Kudos to Viv and Angela, who targeted Furze Platt, and to Christine, who cleaned up around Castle Hill. Also to Sol, Matt, Diya and Kanika, who all blitzed streets near work or home.

We all got some steps in and got a good workout lugging those bags around. Go team!

Carol, Sarah, Viv and Sheila helped out at the Baby Bank this morning. It was Viv's first volunteer at the facility but she quickly got to grips with the checking process for clothes donations. We spent the morning checking, sorting, and putting away clothes alongside some corporate volunteers.

Litter picked a small stretch of A4. Nothing interesting found, but a soiled nappy was definitely a number 10 on the yuk— ometer scale!

Carrying on the animal theme from last week! Another hour spent reading with children in Year 1. Today some of them were reading a book about taking pets into school, including (spoiler alert!) an elephant!

Our first job of the session was to dig small holes about a foot apart to plant the hedgerow saplings which will grow into a hedge border to separate one of the garden areas from the car park.

Working in pairs (Jen and Sol, Devon and Rupi) by floodlight we soon reached the end of the fence markers sp we finished the session by deweeding and turning over two of the beds nearby.

Diya and Kanika took an early lunch break to go help Mrs M with her gate latch issues. She was clearly in need of a little chat as well, so we spent a few mins chatting first and then got onto adjusting the latches on her two garden gates. She seemed to enjoy the company and was pleased with our handiwork.