3 intrepid explorers set off from The Showroom in search of fish passes in and on weirs along the course of the River Don in central Sheffield. These features in the river need to be inspected and evaluated every so often to make sure they are serving the purpose for which they were installed, flagging up any issues to be fixed. There is a form with set criteria on to be evaluated at each site. As we were a small group tonight we elected to stay together to do the inspections, rather then split up and cover a greater number. We still managed to inspect 4 sites and cover 6km in our alloted time. Great job team GG!

After inspecting as many passes as we could, including Sanderson's Weir, Burton Weir, Walk Mill and Lady's Bridge, we headed back to The Showroom to stretch off before bidding each other adieu.

A new task today with a referral from lovely local charity, the Joybank. They collect second hand toys and books, and find them new homes in schools, playgroups and with underprivileged children. Professionals will refer families and organisations and packages made up, whilst some donations go to the charity shop to be sold to raise funds.

Today at the donation and redistribution centre, we met Beth, who has recently come into a part time role with another colleague to help run this centre and it needs a lot of sorting!

To me, To you!

After a brief, we got down to the hard work and the most useful task we could do was shift some shelving around. Not an easy task when there are boxes and bags full toys and games as far as the eye can see! The hope is that there will be an area where recipients come to collect and can peruse a selection whilst they wait, whilst being kept safely away from the organised chaos behind the scenes!

We discussed future tasks, including sorting through games to make sure they're complete and helping make up gift bags for Christmas/Eid, hopefully being able to facilitate some of these as Monday night group runs