Who needs spring for a good sort out?! A rainy weekend sent our GoodGymers rummaging through their wardrobes and drawers to see what they could part with. More room in the house, more stuff for charity - it's a win-win.

A group of Goodgymers donated their pre-loved items to different local charities. Thanks all for participating in this task :)!

A big January Challenge squad was out on a chilly night as we headed back to the British Heart Foundation shop for some more window dressing. Emily, Clare, Dave, Anna, Luke, Susannah, Jonathan, Eleanor, Amy, Laurel, Tom, Marcos and Rachel were quickly called into action by fetching sporting and gym items from the cavernous storage areas upstairs to hopefully encourage buyers to start thinking about fitness and exercise.

We got there in the end, with particular aesthetic guidance from Susannah and a final inspirational touch from Marcos to hang badminton racquets from the ceiling.

It's always a really fun task with the BHF and this was no different. A bit cold for too much running, but extra kudos to those who did.

Today was a dropoff of items to various charity shops to help their much needed funds for research in their area of expertise. Don't forget if you can do gift aid this amounts to even more every time you donated.

It’s was time to 🎵Step in to Christmas🎵 at the BHF.

Upon arrival Christmas was in full swing with garlands going up and Christmas stock piling out of the lifts.

After refuelling on Pizza Luke and Jonathan tackled fairy lights, a somewhat fiddly task but a sparkly one, whilst Levita became Santa - can you spot her?

Meanwhile Jana found display places for fancy ball balls, Martel and Levita - no longer Santa hung the garlands over the arch and Tom, Claire, Ellie, Louise and Sabir displayed everything on the shelves from Xmas stockings to socks, Santas, fir trees and a catus!!

In no time we had the shelves full of Christmas treats to fill Santa’s sleigh.

This morning when we arrived at the British Heart Foundation, our task was changed as they had had a delivery so we were assigned to unpack and place these items around the store in position where they would be best to catch the eye of the retailers. But first it was to dismantle a window displays items and put them in their rightful section of the store. Then we got to unpacking, there were different coloured throws, cushions with different animals on, foxes and dogs door stops and daschunds heat excluders or bees ones. The time went quickly as we were kept so busy.

Our steps this morning really added up, what with walking to, between and during our tasks, not counting both of our walks back to our humble abodes.