With the late evening sun still shining, we headed north towards Moulsecoomb Primary School some on two wheels and some tackling the 4km run.

A particularly big welcome back to Daniel, returning to GoodGym after a break and, impressively, taking on his first run in a year! What better way to make a comeback than with a sunny run followed by some serious gardening?

Arriving at the school, we were greeted by the brilliant Warren, who quickly got us equipped and pointed in the direction of the evening's tasks.

One group headed into the school's orchard to clear around the bases of the trees, while another team got stuck into pruning and clearing parts of the veg patch. The veg garden was looking especially impressive, with some absolutely enormous sunflowers towering over us a few of them even taller than Ruth!

There was plenty of shearing, grass cutting and general hacking back to be done, accompanied by chats about holidays and summer adventures. As ever, many hands made light work and before long we'd generated an impressive mountain of greenery, eventually packing the compost heap to bursting!

With a little time still on the clock, there was just enough opportunity for some fairly brutal hedge trimming to tidy up another corner of the grounds. The hedge did fight back though, and I managed to finish the task with a literal thorn in my side. Occupational hazard of GoodGym gardening!

With the garden well and truly blitzed, tools were gathered, everything was tidied away and we disappeared off into the fading light for the long run and cycle back into Brighton.

It's always a pleasure to return to Moulsecoomb Primary School and lend a hand with their ambitious nature gardens and outdoor education projects. Another lovely evening of running, riding, chatting, chopping and doing some good.

Millions of people visit Brighton's beautiful beaches every year to swim in the sea and enjoy the seaside vibes. However, not everyone departs without leaving a trace. After this year's May bank holiday weekend, the council cleared up 20 tonnes of rubbish from the beach.

Brighton & Hove Tidy Up Team is a volunteering organisation that has equipment stashed all over the city to allow volunteers to proactively keep their city clean.

On a blissfully cool summer evening, we took a shift with their equipment to have a beach clean of our own. We were joined by new Goodgymmer Alessandro, lapsed Goodgymmer Rachel back after a long sabbatical and Liz for her second task with us. We picked-up funky vests, monstrous litter pickers and an array of bin bags from the communal equipment bin by the Bandstand and then descended on to the surrounding promenade and beach.

We split into pairs, with dedicated bag holders to avoid the ignominy of having a gust of wind upend your rubbish bag while you're trying to put something else in. Although the beach wasn't looking too litter strewn we still managed to pick-up a lot of cigarette butts, bottle caps, plastic wrappers, straws and cans.

Hearteningly, throughout the evening we were approached by a number of people thanking us for our work, which was a beautiful reminder that most people care deeply about keeping their beaches clean and that the litter is only dropped by a small minority.