This double bill community mission made us all feel at home on a Monday evening! We met at Keddleston Community Centre where Margaret was ready to put us straight to work. Not before our TaskForce hero Leo took a few willing volunteers on a run to another task. This team (including Chris, Polly, Amy, and Rohan) took on a speedy litter pick around Meath Gardens.

Here's what Leo had to say about the litter pick: "We were met by Tunde who equipped us all with litter pickers, bags and in some cases gloves and we set off around the gardens doing some speed litter picking so that we could be back in time for fitness after a decent run there thanks to Chris for leading the way expertly.

We focused on the area behind the basketball court and the wooded area and found some interesting treasures including a number of kids toys in various states of disrepair, a screwdriver and the handle from a kids scooter."

Meanwhile back where we started, Anna and Pauline immediately got stuck in among the plants to clear an area behind the community centre. Martin was ready for some digging and compost sorting. Sarah, Ellinor and Becky were organising mixed sizes of plant pots, while me, Johnny and Ceiling undertook some very satisfying chopping. It turned out the pot organising was more work than we expected, so towards the end we joined forces to finish this area together. We were thrilled to find a little gnome hiding amongst the plants too!

Some of the group then popped over to Middleton Green for an informal distanced fitness session. After a dynamic warm up we worked as a team running 2 laps of the green in a chain run. A fun interval exercise! Well done to everyone who stayed in spite of the unexpected rain and thank you to Chris and Leo for your help leading this session!

Special welcome to Amy for her first Towers Hamlets session. We hope to see you again soon!

More Monday evening community missions to come!