Two GoodGymers Harry and Sophie, attended today’s session, helping Westbourne rotary’s Santa’s grotto. (Congratulations Harry for completing your tenth good deed!) We got dressed up in festive attire to greet the children of Boscombe who were all very excited to see Santa! This was a very fun session, meeting approximately 17 families, which was classed as a ‘Slow’ day! The rotary were very thankful for our support today!

Three Goodgymmers, Daryl, Keith and Lea, had another lovely time walking along Santa's sleigh. Well, the beginning was certainly lovely, but whether there were so many more children to talk to Santa or people coming out to greet Santa, it certainly wasn't the fastest route! But whether slow or fast: the shining eyes of all the kiddies makes it all worthwhile. And going by the weight of the buckets.... another successful night, for sure. And the weather gods were once again smiling down on us.

Four Goodgymers meet at Sandbanks to Help Rose Road charity they help children and young people with complex disabilities.Today they put on a LandRover convoy to Christchurch.We where asked to go round with collection buckets and sell raffle tickets before the convoy set off.There was Land Rovers of all ages some decorated some not .What i must mention is Joanna from Poole who is Going to be a Run Leader and is going to make a very good one it was a pleasure to assess her .

Another Santa night… two Goodgymmers, Keith and Lea, nicely lit up with bright lights, followed Santa’s Sleigh around Iford tonight. Buckets got filled with pennies and pounds, while our feet were pounding along the streets especially when Santa decided to speed up the sleigh on the return journey!

It was great to see so many turn out for the end of year quiz at the Care Home it means so much to them they do enjoy a quiz.We split into two teams The Christmas Crackers and The Christmas Trees,we started with a picture round you had to name the movies that featured the following Farther Christmases which was a bit of fun.Followed by 20 general Knowledge questions based on Christmas which you either loved or hated ,but the scores on the doors was very close The Crackers got 25 ,but the winners by one point was the Trees with 26 well done to both Teams. We shall be back at the Care Home in the New Year the date is January 12th.In the mean time please check out the web site as there is so much happening in the lead up to Christmas.Hope to see you all soon.

One Goodgymmer, Lea, and a friend joined the Westbourne Rotary again for another sleigh ride with Santa. Well, Santa on the sleigh but his helpers walking around it… 13.000+ steps! Towards the end not only the elves were running out of power, (only a bit), Santa’s music ran out of power (completely) and part of Boscombe ran out of power (eerily so!). But the lovely exited faces were still lighting up brightly at seeing Santa! And us elves were still brightly holding on to buckets that were getting heavier all the time!