A gorgeous spring evening saw seven goodgym-ers make their way along cherry blossom-lined streets, to St Richard's Church in Charlton.

Our task here was to continue our project working on the outside area, clearing away weeds and making the area into a usable outdoor space. First up was moving back the cardboard placed down during the last task, then tackling those pesky return weeds with all the tools we could find.

It was time to level up the playing field a bit to make a flatter surface for the membrane layer. A game of rock paper scissors then ensued to get the membrane down, and we embraced our inner cave people discovering which makeshift tools worked best for hammering in the pegs without a hammer.

The surface is now ready and waiting for a delivery of wood chip mulch so watch this space for its progress!

Have a lovely Easter weekend/Spring break everyone & catch up soon! 🙂

Next week we're back at Prince Philip Maritime Collections centre- hope to see you there.

Another sunny Sunday and GoodGym, CleanUpCharlton and a local friend set out to clean the mean streets of SE7. Hopefully the person who complained about the state of Ramac Way on FixMyStreet recently will see a bit of a difference - but what's with all the balloons? (Almost 99 and none of them red!). And why are there SO many cigarette ends in the cycle lane? It's these type of intellectual questions that GoodGymers have to try to answer...

We left 4 bags for Greenwich Council (in the approved grey bags), sorted out some Asda trollies so they didn't cause a car crash, and made a neat pile of bigger items that will hopefully be collected too. And then it was off to the M&S cafe as usual for refreshments.

A bright and breezy Wednesday night took 5 GoodGym-ers to Glyndon Community Centre in Woolwich for tonight's task. With a spring in our step, we set to a spring clean in the outdoor area at Glyndon. Lots of sweeping and clearing of fallen leaves (not just ordinary leaves but super long palm tree leaves) later, we also started on much-needed declutter of the storage shed, making sure to recycle whatever we could.

Dismantling some broken planters was also on our to-do list, including a donkey planter, the front and back of which we just had to keep- hence this report's title...!

This left us time for a quick but effective littler pick, before a welcome downhill run back to Woolwich town centre.

Thanks all & see you soon! 😀

And so this week, ten of us met for another task at James Wolfe Primary School!

There were 5 steps to this task and our merry group proved our mettle by getting it all done with lots of detective work.

Step one: Treasure hunt to find the pictures of items that needed to be moved to different locations in the playground Step two: Roll all the tyres across the playground and up some steps Step two: Move all the crates Step three: Locate and move all of the piping and giant cable wheels Step four: Move a very heavy metal bench Step 5: Do a litter pick and general tidy up

The result? All the items were moved to the correct place (we hope) and the playground was a little tidier and cleaner.

Well done team and thanks for mucking in as always.

Next week we're back at Glyndon with a Woolwich start. Don't forget our green chain walk on the 6th April!

Until next time.