It's rained every day this month, and today was no exception 🌧- it was tipping down at noon as thirteen dedicated volunteers, including our litter picking champion, Ashton, met for the monthly tidy up run by Friends of Lesnes Abbey and Woods in the wonderful grounds and woodland around the abbey ruins.

As the photo shows, they found plenty of rubbish, although by the time the picture was taken most of the crew had headed to Chestnuts café for a warming drink.

What absolute stalwarts braving the horrid weather 🌟. Let's hope it's drier when we join them again in March.

If you're wondering about going along, please do! It's a welcoming and friendly group, and all equipment is provided if you don't have your own.

Ashton joined Thames 21 volunteers working to maintain the Thames Road Wetland, a hidden haven in Bexley borough.

The task was clearing a ditch and Ashton got stuck in with his usual energy and enthusiasm.

If you fancy getting involved in this ongoing conservation project, there's another session next month. Sign up here.

All equipment is provided and it's a truly special experience.

Three Goodgymers were joined by a local Councillor to tackle the post-QPR/Charlton football match streets of SE7. Plenty of cans and bottles but also surprisingly a set of false nails and a rather natty brolly! We cleaned up the mini-gardens outside the houses along one side of the Woolwich Road - they'd be nice with some plants in them, not just old G&T and Red Bull cans! And we scraped out the soggy litter in the flooded gutters. The nails, the brolly, the cans and the cardboard all left for Greenwich Council to collect - 6 bags in all. Thanks team!