Tonight was a very special session indeed!

We celebrated not one, not two, but three milestones! Bec did her 100th deed, Nick his 400th and Vicky her 600th. Top effort guys! 👏

The celebrations didn't stop there though- tonight we also reached our January good deed target.This has been an incredible achievement by everyone who has come along this month. You should all be so proud.

And as if this wasn't news enough, a real news reporter from ITN calendar news joined us to do some filming.📺

So, what did we get up to? It was our annual outing to give the willow at Park Grove it's haircut. We has a team lopping and sawing, another shuttle running the offcuts to team weave, who were adding to the willow dome. In the forest school Debs, Ed and Neil were making woodchip and Laura was busy collecting brash to chop up. 🪚

For the grand finale we did a fitness session based on the January bingo - 10 exercises on park equipment. This entertained the reporters as much as it did us!

We then headed back to base, waving cheerily at cameraman Mike on the way past and a few continued the celebrations in the pub. 🍻

Top work, but its not over yet. Still lots of kms needed, tasks to sign up to, bingo squares to complete and pledges to fulfill! Let push through the last few days and you can all have a day off on Sunday!

What a great start to the weekend of volunteering. Powered by last nights chilli meal at the YHA and a relatively early night all were up and keen to get off to the first task of the weekend. A combination of plans saw various groups running or driving the 5k to Sherwood Pines where we were helping out with the local Park Run. The majority had voluntereed as pacers and complete with GG t shirts adorned with locally produced (thanks Michael) numbers on their backs indicating their 'anticipated' finish time they were to produce the encouragement to others that maybe had a time in mind. Hopefully, no-one was disappointed with their times although the forest cover provided a little uncertainty in finish times ! Cheered to the end and greatly appreciated by the organisers, GG showed themselves in their best light. Many thanks to those that sped back to start breakfast service while of course for some it was a run / walk back and 15k already covered before breakfast.... The weekend had only just started ....