"Reading brings us unknown friends."

"We read books to find out who we are."

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"

Portsmouth GoodGymers agree. Over 250 books were donated to numerous charities around the City, to bring joy & inspiration to new readers.

Matilda says it best: "Books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who live exciting lives."

A bit like GoodGym really.

Congratulations to Abby on achieving 50 Good Deeds! She decided to celebrate by lobbing her litter picker into the water and wading in to rescue it wearing only shorty wellies!

Jenny and Brian filled two large sacks to the brim with polystyrene, plastic and wood.

Val multi-tasked by litter picking, taking photos and talking excitedly to every passing dog.

It's only month two of the 2023 Tipner Challenge and we are already having an impact. Join us in March!

A new location for us today at Port Solent to clean the shoreline with the team from City of Sanctuary. We split into groups and started progressing along the shoreline collecting small bits of rubbish and logging them on the Jetsam app. We split into groups with one person having the Jetsam app so plastic and litter could be logged and photographed. Brian paired up with Scott and he found half a gardening fork that had been discarded after it had broken. Jo logged the rubbish on the app whilst Jenny and Vicki dug into the seaweed to find it. The seaweed was so dense that we all sank into it but thankfully didn’t get stuck whilst we were picking. As well as the large amounts of plastic wrappers, polystyrene, fishing line and rope we also added cutlery, retractable Stanley knife and plastic components from boats. We headed back to Scott’s car with the rubbish whilst Brian kindly offered to discard a large bag of rubbish and the broken fork.

Tracey, Jenny and I started and ended our litter pick at the Rose Garden, taking in a stretch of the beach (30 minutes) and back across the grass of Canoe Lake (30 minutes).

Job done, just before the rain started.