Today at 2pm, Emily, Adam, Charlotte, Rachel and Dave met at Fairfield Park and went for a lovely litter pick around the perimeter. Even though the ground was solid and frosted over we enjoyed the warm sun and picked up as much litter as we could find.

Charlotte and Rachel went to Growbaby and helped sort the nappies, toys and clothes into good order so families can collect with ease.

Rachel and Charlotte had a great volunteering day at Growbaby helping to unpack the mountains of donations that have started to come in now that the Hub is open again. Clothes, coats, toys and baby equipment were safely stowed away so that mums and dads could pop in and take what they needed. We'll be back!

Today's task took us to Fairfield Park where we joined Suzanne and her team of local residents to give the area a thoroughly good litter pick. There was a great sign up due to the January Challenge and we welcomed four new GoodGymers to their first community mission - hello Kathryn, Eleanor, Charlotte and Adam!

It was a great day for a walk, fresh but not too cold if we kept moving, and in our small groups we lapped the park inside and outside the boundary line - meeting for an impromptu chat when we met half way.

We found all sorts of weird and random bits of rubbish - half an umbrella, vapes, bottles stuffed into hedges and countless cigarette butts. Lots of small bits but it filled the rubbish bags we carried way too quickly.

We whiled the hour away chatting and playing with the litter pickers and soon it was time to pack up and go.

A great task - we'll head over for the next one so look out in the calendar for the next session.