Like a creepy Tarantino film, 7 mysterious strangers met at the infamous Bridge House, shared their favourite Xmas meal trimmings (obvs) and set off into the night.

Molly and Hannah took the walking route whilst the rest of us went for a loop around Sydenham.

In the dark Alexandra Recreation Ground we met Millie who was fully prepared with bulbs and shovels.

We were planting King Edward (?) daffodil bulbs alongside some of the hedgerow we had a hand in planting. Come the Spring it's going to look lovely.

We dug deep and stuck a couple of bulbs in each hole before stamping the ground down.

170 bulbs later we were done. Ace work team. 🔥

A nice, festive session last night! We were helping out Beckenham Park Care Home with some decorating.

First up, some of us met at the Bridge House (and shared our fave xmas tunes), a few people met at Shortlands Station and a few made their own way to the task.

It was a pretty long run for most of us (4.5k!) but a good way to warm up on a freezing cold night.

When we arrived, we were assigned to different parts of the care home to add festive flourishes:

🎄 Decorating a tree

🌿 Adding fake greenery to the stairs

🍽 Spicing up the dinner tables

🎀 Putting up beads and ribbons around photo frames and on the dog (see pic)

It was good to do an inside task in that weather although I'm not sure most of us expected somewhere so fancy...!

We smashed through it all in half an hour and went our separate ways.

Nice one team! 💪

Not money, sadly, but leaves and good vibes!

We met at the Bridge House, introducing ourselves and discussing our ideal scarf. A couple of people raised the concept of scarf-blankets, which sounds like a great way to keep warm!

Thankfully it wasn't cold out - just a bit damp, so we headed out to our task at St John the Evangelist Church in Upper Norwood. We've helped the church to lay mulch, cut back weeds and more in the past, but tonight they wanted some help with the leaf fall 🍂 from the lovely trees in their meadow 🌳

We also moved some bags of last year's composted leaves over to a planter 🪴 ready to fertilise some new plants, and then replaced the compost in the two bags with this year's leaves, filling them to the brim!

Sterling raking, team 🪴