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.

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.

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!

The group were greeted at the Croydon Refugee Day Centre by Simon, who informed us of the tasks for the day.

We welcomed Danielle to her first session and also Khai, who was visiting from Greenwich GG.

After a busy day at the centre, the first task was to collect the empty coat hangers from the racks. The second task was to label and hang clothing items. The team completed this swiftly and asked for another task! The third task was to sort children's hats and leggings by size. The final task was a game of clothes rail Tetris, to move all of the clothing rails and boxes into a tiny store cupboard.

Well done team!

Many of the team met at the benches and walked to the task together. Welcome to Anna, who was on tour from Southwick GG and welcome back to Sunday.

The task was to sort through new donations, to label the clothing with the correct size and to hang on the racks. The team worked quickly and efficiently and soon all the donations were sorted through. At the end of the evening, the racks were put away in the cupboard.

Well done team! It was a very productive evening!

On Tuesday we welcomed Salem to his first of many sessions with us, he used to run but family life and children activities got the better of him. He is looking to get back into running and came across an ad for us and liked the idea of combining his runs with doing good.

Another highlight for us was having **Kate joining us on the task, having completed 26.2 miles on Sunday she was unable to jog to the task with us, she also brought her medal to show us, we congratulated her on her amazing achievement in completing her first marathon

We ran to Croydon Refugee Day Centre to assist them with their clothes donations, Simon was there to greet us and while we were waiting on the building to be opened he jumped at the opportunity to lead us in a fitness session. Following our fitness session we went inside the hall where there was clothes clothes for us to sort and hung. Myself Salem and Bassey were on hanger duty where we went around and collected all the empty hangers from the clothing rails, while Kate and Ingrid sorted the clothes to be hung on the rails. We were midway through sorting out the clothes, when Simon came in with treats treats for us.

Before long it was time to store away the clothing rails into the storage room and bid our farewell to Simon.