Loads of fabulous Goodgymers braved the windy weather to litter pick in Bransbury Park. Goodgym were inspiring the little Squirrel Scouts and showing them the joys of litter picking or as one 5 yr old said - with full excitement and unabashed enthusiasm - it's a rubbish treasure hunt!!! Best find were a camo hat and wizards wand (which might have been a vape :)

2 Goodgymers helped inspire 22 little Squirrels and Beavers to take part in the Great British Beach Clean. Together we collected over 6kg of rubbish from the brach, mainly tiny scraps of plastic that would otherwise end up in our oceans.

2 Goodgymers dropped in on the Somers Orchard community garden and watered the planters for the 48th squirrels.

As we couldn't possibly have a GoodGym Social without squeezing in a good deed, to finish off our sixth birthday celebrations we removed the radiator covers at The Gibson Centre and gave them a good dust, sweep and scrub!

As some of us missed out on our Hogwarts letters, we weren't able to apparate or head to our task by broomstick this evening, so a gentle jog was in order.

Our task this evening was to empty out the planters and re-home the veggies in some plant pots until a new home for the raised beds can be found.

Our team of budding Herbology students could have done with some help from Madame Sprout, as identifying what was weed and what was vegetable was a bit of a challenge. Hence the confusion between Hogs Weed and Hogwarts, inspiring the run report this evening.

Richard, under the careful supervision of Mini-GGer Alice appeared to have cast a Geminio charm, uncovering an ever-multiplying harvest of potatoes!

Katie and Sammy were on strawberry duty and were able to salvage most of the plants. I would guess the Sorting Hat would put these guys in Ravenclaw, they had to use a lot of smarts to ensure they were saving the right plants! Sammy also discovered Professor Moody's missing eye and one of Aragog's babies in the soil!

Laura and Dave were on litter picking duties, and were able to use the new extendable litter pickers to Accio litter! with a summoning spell.

Hagrid would have been mighty pleased with our groundskeeping skills this evening, well done everyone!

This week we visited the Gibson Centre to give the Scouting room a good old scrub and sort out. Thank you to Katie for finding this last minute task and providing such an organised list of jobs to be done - scrubbing them off the board as we went was incredibly satisfying.

Lucy and Sinéad seemed to be in their artistic element clearing out two massive art cupboards, cleaning them down and restocking all the supplies. It looks so good after they were done!

Louisa was certainly the sharpest GoodGymer this evening, giving the electric pencil sharpener the run of its life, whilst Katie and Dave added to the homeless spider population by wiping away an insane number of cobwebs.