It was a pretty cold Monday night task, setting out from Stepney Bank Stables to deliver our own GoodGym Newcastle leaflets around the Shieldfield area of Newcastle. It's been quite a while since we've done this sort of self-promotion!

Onyinye joined us for the very first time! Welcome to GoodGym and well done on your first good deed. Old hands Scott and Richard revisited some familiar streets to help spread the word about GoodGym.

The forecast rain didn't arrive and hopefully we have helped recruit some GoodGymers, so it was a successful evening!

On a pleasant Monday evening, three GoodGym litter pickers headed out up Stepney Bank towards New Bridge Street. It's not an area we have litter picked in often and it was certainly needed. The main road into the city centre from Byker, New Bridge Street had mountains of litter, particularly around its bus stops. It's hard to understand how it ends up like this as there are numerous bins around the bus stops.

We had several people stopping to thank us and asking what GoodGym was. We did our best to explain and told people to look us up. If you were one of those people and are reading this, please sign up and come join us on a Monday night soon!

GoodGym Newcastle's latest litter pick involved heading towards Shieldfield and Jesmond, areas which we haven't litter picked in very often.

There was a particular area near Osbourne Terrace that Scott said had been bugging him due to the amount of litter present. We managed to clear a large proportion of it, hopefully boosting Scott's happiness!

We encountered a number of people tonight keen to ask what we were doing and to thank us. Several GoodGym flyers were distributed, including to the two students who deserve a photo credit tonight. If you are reading this, please come and join us on a Monday night soon!

On the mildest Monday evening in months, two GoodGymers set off from Stepney Bank Stables bound for Heaton, an area of Newcastle that is prone to being badly littered.

The most unusual items discovered were a pair of saucepans, side by side in the undergrowth. It seemed like we'd go a whole litter pick without finding a discarded wine bottle, which almost never happens, but we found one just before we called it a day.

Six bags full of litter after another successful litter pick.

Thank you very much to Ella from Newcastle University Students' Union for welcoming us to our latest crafting session at the university tonight. The task was to make snuffle mats to be donated to dog charities.

It was a little out of the ordinary for most of us, but strangely satisfying. Many conversations were had during the session on subjects ranging from running, musical instruments and travelling to the Far East and much more besides.

A warm welcome to Lloyd, attending his first (hopefully of many) GoodGym Newcastle session after his recent move from Leeds.