It was great to welcome Phil and Helen to the GG pack.

Big thanks to Annie for welcoming everyone before dashing to Theatre practice and then the family meal! Busy lady!

We headed down to the start of Gerry's section of the Transpenine Trail to meet her and William and get tooled up ready for litter picking.

We got to it heading out of the city the opposite way to last time. On the whole things were looking fairly clear with some hot spots along the way.

Once done, Gerry talked us through the Fix My Street app and how to report various concerns to the council via the app. Very modern.

Until next time. Happy running! :)

We welcomed a new runner on this task, a big welcome to Hels who seemed to enjoy her first session.

We met the wonderful Jess of Common Thread fame at Union street who lead us down to the basement to discuss the options for helping which were sorting clothes or shoes.

We opted for shoes and got the lift loaded up with banana boxes full of of shoes. The task was to sort through and quality control the shoes to make sure the pairs were present and that those selected are fit for sale. Any that were worse for wear got bagged up and headed next door to the charity shop for further sorting or sending on.

Jess did a great job providing instruction and giving some of the shoes a good sprucing up.

The next clothes exchange is this coming Sat and tickets are going fast!

Tickets are available via the link below:

https://fixr.co/event/january-clothes-swap-2026-tickets-56087971?lang=en-US