It was our second visit to help Wrap Up London in their initiative to get a warm coat to everybody who needs it this winter and it was lovely to see some familiar faces, some we hadn't seen in a while, and we even got to meet the very newest GoodGymer - hello Finn and welcome to GoodGym!

The scale of the job was immense with over 20 000 coats to sort through and pack, so we wasted no time in getting started!

There was a surprising amount of maths involved as we tried to work out how to fulfill the requests that charities had made and get the right number of coats into bags. Luckily Catherine has a head for numbers and we soon had a seamless production line on the go.

We packed bags for various organisations including refugee centres and shelters across London, and then we moved on to an enormous pile of baby clothes, discovering some very natty babygros and sleep sets!

After a productive stint we had packed, sorted and bagged and had made a good dent in the donations. Great work everybody!

*Sunshine at last ! *

It was a wonderful evening for a visit to Turning Tides Victoria Road hostel. Some walked, some ran and one arrived as a complete surprise to us all ! It was so good to see Beth back in Worthing for her first GoodGym in 2 years ! Lets hope we see some more of this little pocket rocket in the borough again soon.

Also surprising us with her presence was our very own social secretary Tamsin - so good to see you and thank you for your continuing hard work in and outside of tasks :)

It was also good to see Sue Anne and Craig back again tonight after a few weeks break -the warm sunshine definitely brought out the crowds this evening.

We were tasked with putting together garden furniture together with a tidy up of the garden and breaking down alot of cardboard ready for recycling. Sarahand Anne jumped on the chance for some self assembly of the bench and were also joined by John in a supervisory role! Paul Tamsin and Craig assembled the table ( despite lack of tools! )

RoxyGillybean, Daisy and Sue worked tirelessly all evening sorting the wilderness around the borders and rediscovering the raised bed that had been completely obscured by tall weed like bushes.

Meanwhile Belinda and Beth were busily breaking down boxes and sorting between recycling and general rubbish - they somehow found space in bins !

Great job done everybody :) See you next week.

Julia xx