Portsmouth GoodGymers gathered up unwanted Christmas smellies & added extra toiletries to their supermarket shop, and then took their donations to the North End Pantry.

The Pantry volunteers were grateful that they could add bathroom essentials to the food bank donations.

Portsmouth Hive put out a request for Valentine-themed decorations for a Care Home, so we responded to the call.

There was some at-home crafting and a lunchtime MAKE session.

Plenty of love-themed crafting was the result.

As we took down the seasonal sparkle, we decided which decs needed a new home.

Christmas decorations will be donated to the Naomi House charity shop, as they have plenty of storage space to keep them safe until next December.

(Nb broken Xmas lights will go to electrical waste recycling.)

Our target was to save 100km of car journeys for our No Car Day... and we absolutely smashed it! With a few results waiting to come in, we're already at 150km!

Our top 3 kilometre savers were Dave (17.5km), Katie (16km) and Jane (14km) - well done to them and everyone else for going the extra (literal) mile.

And hopefully we'll also be adding plenty of kilometres to our January Challenge distance target too - double winning!

The Hot Walls beach didn't feel very hot in the run up to Christmas, but seven magnificent GoodGymers braved the cold wind to hunt down the pieces of plastic and fishing line across the beach.

As we cleaned the beach, the warship HMS Duncan returned home to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.

We warmed up afterwards with hot drinks and chunky sandwiches in the cafe next to the beach.