10 amazing Goodgymers helped at Age UK Leicester by sorting, sizing, tagging and hanging bags of donated clothes to be ready for the shop floor. Everyone got stuck in with a few pro’s among the group who are very familiar with the task, especially Lindsay, Jimmy and Stu who visited last week!

Our help was much appreciated by the Staff at Age UK especially Abby who kept us stocked up with clothes to sort, we filled 4 rails today! They were also very grateful for the donations Sarah, Dawn and Lynn brought along after their New Year sorting.

Great to see Samir has a new bike, Jimmy’s first question was his concern about its safety (reminding me of the times Jimmy used to lock my bike with his beeping alarm). I did wish that Stu had bought a new jacket, it really suited him!

Shout out to Lindsay and Lynn who want to take up the task force training to keep Leicester going from strength to strength with more the merrier Task force members.

Fantastic efforts everyone and great to see so many familiar faces keep up the great work and have a lovely weekend.

3 Goodgymers met at 10.30 for our volunteering role at the Age Uk warehouse.

We were greeted by Abby, who was really grateful for the help, as they've been inundated with donations. Lindsay and Jimmy had been before, so we're able to start immediately with tagging, pricing, and hanging the garments on the rail with the correct size cube.

Stu quickly picked up what to do and worked in tandem with Lindsay. Before we knew it, we'd filled the rail with 99p clothes, ready for the shop floor.

Six Goodfymmers went to St Mathews House to wrap the kid's gifts ready for tomorrow's Santas Grotto event. A few boxed toys and a mountain of Cadbury selection boxes were waiting for us. Leese and Jimmy each cut their paper and wrapped their presents while a production line was set up with Lyndsy and Mohamed wrapping as fast as Nick and Samir could cut the rolls of paper. Cees from the centre looked after us well with drinks on arrival, mince oies and a tub of Roses chocolates. We all had a good time and wrapped the task up in two hours.

Goodgyms very own Santa Claus and five elves helped The Rotary Club of the Wreake Valley with their annual Santa sleigh collection tonight . Santa was soon ready on the sleigh, Christmas music playing and collecting buckets ready.

The procession made its way around the route attracting adults, children and even dogs !

Santa was in demand for photos and the Christmas spirt was definitely in the air.

Always lovely the help the local rotarians who donate the money raised to local charities. Ho,ho,ho!! Well done everyone