We had a team of eight join up with the other friends of People's Park to carry out a thorough cleanup of the park.

Weeks of nice weather had attracted lots of daytime park users who left all the usual litter scattered around the fields bushes and trees of this large site. There was also a fair bit of evidence of a night time economy, as well as the fly tipping of a few random items, this time a push chair, a freezer drawer, a walking stick and a children's ride on car thing were the main features of an impressive haul of 16 bags of rubbish!

Beautiful spring sunshine welcomed us as we gathered at the Green Flag to launch another round of the monthly People's Park litter pick.

Splitting up and roving around the park we collected all the litter dropped by recent park users enjoying the warm weather.

The trees in the orchard also got a thorough watering with those on that task getting lots of steps in by having to walk watering cans out from the nearby houses and across to field to the trees and return for refills.

When our time was up we returned to the flag with our collected bags to count them up: 14 bags in total, not bad for a morning in the sun 🌞

What a fabulous team of volunteers we had at The Hockwell Community Centre for setting up and serving at the Seniors' Christmas lunch. Our GoodGym team of 5 was supplemented by two of the All Saints guys who we met a couple of weeks ago during the Church Cleaning task - I think they probably count as associate GoodGymers.

Gil (here's a surprise) was stuck mainly in the kitchen carving turkeys and helping to plate the food, ably assisted by Omar once service was underway.

It was lovely to have Anthony, Ali and David heading up the serving team, starting off with serving up bowls of piping hot vegetable soup to the 100 or so guests, before getting in their steps as they came back and forward from the kitchen to the hall with plates laden with a traditional Christmas Dinner.

There was time for a brief interlude, which they needed, to recharge their batteries and scoff some turkey, before returning to the kitchen to serve up the mince pies. The final task was to help with clearing up and washing up. It was a long old session but Vera was very appreciative. And we all left with a goody bag of chocolates to help us celebrate at home.

4 Goodgymers helped the Friends of Peoples Park with their monthly litterpick. 17 people from the local community turned up collected roughly 20 bags of rubbish. Well done Luton Goodgym. Excellent effort by all