Well done GGers, Junior GGer & Mini GGers for some beautiful Christmas creations, which Portsmouth Hive will distribute to care homes and to the Two Saints homeless shelter.

The task involved beautiful artistry, intense focus & lots of fun play (even by the adults!)

We won't mention the bit where Sammy tried to add herself to the decoration donations by sewing her trousers onto her Xmas star....!

This ambitious task involved getting hundreds of kids off and back onto coaches to help achieve a Guinness World Record for the world's largest reading lesson at Portsmouth Football Club stadium.

We got to use our loudest shouting voices and pointing skills and directed traffic along a very busy Rodney Road, but all for a very good cause: learning to read.

There was a lot of fancy dress, but special shout out to Jen for having the best rainbow heart earrings in the whole group.

9 goodgymers gathered their Christmas cards and dropped them at the wonderful Hive to be transformed into gift tags.

We had a bit of an unusual session this week, stretching our creative muscles rather than our physical ones. I think this was very much appreciated in the sudden cold snap - great numbers tonight!

Dave and Sinéad kept to Gym in GoodGym for us, with a couple of laps of the churchyard before joining us in the community centre to get creating.

We had beautiful table pieces, wreaths, orange peel tree hangings, hand-decorated garlands and some very intricate and mathematical giant baubles. Wilson showed true determination, and with the help of Maxine and baby Margaux completed their challenge! Katie and Vicki were another dream team, producing another masterpiece.

Special thanks to Judy for her creativity, resources and epic foraging skills for providing us with such a lovely task this evening. It was truly wonderful!

HIVE Portsmouth asked for donations of used Christmas cards to make into gift tags for next year's festivities. They will be used for the parcel wrapping by volunteers in the shopping centre in December.

GoodGymers took down the cards from the fireplace and workplace and delivered them to the HIVE desk.

Dave and I donated some wrapping paper and gift tags for the Hive's Christmas wrapathon! They will be busy wrapping presents for shoppers in Cascades just before Christmas Eve to raise funds for the great work they do.