On Tuesday we welcomed Salem to his first of many sessions with us, he used to run but family life and children activities got the better of him. He is looking to get back into running and came across an ad for us and liked the idea of combining his runs with doing good.

Another highlight for us was having **Kate joining us on the task, having completed 26.2 miles on Sunday she was unable to jog to the task with us, she also brought her medal to show us, we congratulated her on her amazing achievement in completing her first marathon

We ran to Croydon Refugee Day Centre to assist them with their clothes donations, Simon was there to greet us and while we were waiting on the building to be opened he jumped at the opportunity to lead us in a fitness session. Following our fitness session we went inside the hall where there was clothes clothes for us to sort and hung. Myself Salem and Bassey were on hanger duty where we went around and collected all the empty hangers from the clothing rails, while Kate and Ingrid sorted the clothes to be hung on the rails. We were midway through sorting out the clothes, when Simon came in with treats treats for us.

Before long it was time to store away the clothing rails into the storage room and bid our farewell to Simon.

Last night we welcomed Oliver to his first group run, he found out about us via instagram. We had a task all booked and set to go ahead at the Refugee centre, hover due to some issues with the locks being changed we were unable to gain access and complete the planned task. Visit Oliver's page and give him some cheer.

All was not lost as Simon our host was on had to put the group through their paces with a fitness session, he had us doing lunges, wall sits, press ups against the railing and squats.

Simon appologised for not being able to get us into the building, but he seemed to have a good time putting us through our paces.

On our next visit, I'm planning on getting Simon to do our fitness session.

Signup to next week's run here.

Last night we jogged/walked 2.21km to West Croydon Baptist Church, to assist Croydon Refugee Centre.

We welcomed Charley to her first Goodgym session.

We were met by Simon at the refugee centre who had a set of tasks ready for us to complete.

We separated into two groups one in the back room sorting clothes into the the boxes on the shelves into their respective age groups and the other in the main hall, going through the clothes rails removing empty hangers and sorting the clothes into the correct sizes on the clothes rails.

We learnt about Charley, and her adventures abroad while she learnt about us and all things Goodgym. We made sure not to overload her with too much information but gave her just enough to keep her enticed to join us next week for the other installment.

Did someone say Guinness?

Rumour has it someone we know may or may not be appearing in the Guinness Book of Records, sorry cannot say anymore than that at the moment.

Next week it’s the last Tuesday of the month, will you be joining us at the Bedford tavern after the group run for some food and drinks?

Fancy a kick about?

Wednesday 14 February 5-a-side Football at Beckenham Goals

Whats Happening in other areas?

On Tuesday, we visited Croydon Refugee Day Centre to help them sort donations and label clothes.

Our inherited member, Emma currently immersing herself in all things Croydon, popped by on her way to Bell Ringing, as she has not been able to join us due to events clashing. She had gone around and removed all the empty clothes hangers from the clothing rails that had been emptied by the visitors earlier in the day. Sadly we had to say goodbye to Emma but it was very good seeing her and hearing about how she was getting on at bell ringing school.

We welcomed back Zoe who had not been out with us for a while, it was good to have her back at another event, we told her about the treats and our break time with Simon, but sadly he wasn't because he wasn't feeling well so there was no treats. Instead we had Ivanka whom we had not seen for a long time so although there was no treats we were blessed with Ivanka's company.

Ivanka, wanted us to go through the clothes rails check that the clothes had labels and where they had missing labels, we were supposed to label them and place them in the correct spots based on sizes.

We got stuck in chattering away as we checked and label clothes with missing labels, before long it was time for us to move the clothes back into the store room and said our good byes.

Last night we ran, 2.2km to assist Croydon Refugee Day Centre.

We welcomed Louise back to another session, we must be doing somthing good in Croydon to entice her so far south, either way it was great having her along.

When we areived Simon was there to greet us, he explained he had a listnof task that was left for us to complete.

• First we searched for all the empty hangers on the clothes rails, this gave an idication of how many items of clothing had been given out during the day. There were many empty hangers we didnt count them as we were trying to see how much of the list we could complete.

• Next up we went through bags of sorted clothes to seperate clothes for 2 years and below. We were about to finish this task when Simon returned reminding us of our our KitKat break. We were back to the normal KitKats this week, I'll make sure next year Halloween, we are back they for the special KatKat.

• Then we were tasked with the big one, going through the boxes of clothes 3 years and above, to remove all the summer clothes. Yes this is a massive task which will have us sorting for a while with future tasks. With an eye on the clock we managed a to sort a few boxes before stopping to put away the racks of clothes into the room.

Louise reminded us about Goodgym London monthly drinks happening on Thursday, fancy meeting like minded folks and expanding your Goodgym friends network Click here for more info.

Its November so its not too soon to say it Xmas party/meal come and join us as we celebrate our achievements of the past 12 months.

Hope to see you at the next group run to create more memories.

Last night 8 members from Goodgym Croydon, ran 1.9km to the Croydon Refugee day centre.

We welcomed first timers Louisa, Kemo and Bassey to their first outing with the group, its been a while since we've had 3 newbies on the same night so our treats really started early.

Thank you to our regulars Ian, Hannah, Liz and Nicola for making them feel welcomed and showed them the ropes at the task. Simon had various little jobs for us to do this visit and each time we thought we had completed the task he had assigned he would pop up with another task to do.

Whenever we visit Simon always insist on Kit Kat, Break and this week was no different to previous visits except for the fact that this time round we got Kit Kat Chunkies. While other where out knocking on doors for sweets and chocolates we were reaping rewards but by volunteering.

After the task we ran back to The Bedford Tavern for a drink and some food.

We also managed to plan and book our X-mas party will you be coming?