Six GoodGymers set out from Stepney Bank Stables tonight armed with litter pickers and the last of the leaflets we had to deliver to promote this weekend's Ouseburn Festival.

Welcome back to Daniel for good deed number two. Aspiring TaskForce member Nour was completed good deed number seven. Everyone else has been doing good deeds for a very long time now!

We set off towards Byker, picking up litter along Lime Street and Byker Bank before heading off to the area around St Lawrence Park. We delivered the Ouseburn Festival leaflets to some terraced houses and the blocks of flats at Ouseburn Wharf. It turned that that area around the blocks of flats was very badly littered, so we filled up four bin liners in that small area. Some of the labels on the bottles and cans were so faded that the litter had probably been there for years. Thankfully much of it is there no longer!

If you've never attended the Ouseburn Festival, it takes place this coming Saturday and Sunday. We'll be back next Monday to pick up any litter left behind.

The weather was gloriously sunny for two goodgymers volunteering at Whitley bay junior parkrun! The only issue was that the ground was so hard that it was very difficult to get the spikes in the dry hard ground for the finish funnel! after that struggle I was run director and Nour marshalled. Over 200 young runners completed the run!

On a warm, but occasionally mildly moist, Monday evening, five GoodGymers headed to Shieldfield and Sandyford armed with hundreds of Ouseburn Festival leaflets. This continued the task we started last week in Heaton. Shieldfield and Sandyford don't have quite as many terraced streets for easy leaflet delivery, but we delivered almost as many leaflets as last week, on what was another successful evening.

Some train mishaps and delays led to an absence of litter pickers, the inanimate not the human kind, for tonight's litter pick. Fortunately GoodGymers are nothing if not resourceful, so we improvised with some gloves, which Aimee thankfully had to hand, and the willingness to literally use our hands. Undeterred by the lack of mechanical assistance Scott and Richard managed to fill at least six bags with litter, while Aimee protected her aching back as designated bin bag carrier.

It was a successful evening in the end, with the added bonus of better than expected weather!