Claire, Rachel, Dave and Camilla met up at The Lamb pub, not for a drink, but for a stretch and to warm up for the slow hill up to Tolworth Recreation Centre. Claire and Dave headed off in the lead and Camilla and Rachel took a steady pace for the long climb. Once we arrived we met Emma and the 3 Js - Jana, Jade and Jas! Susan, from Kingston Pantry, welcomed us in and explained what tasks needed to be done.

With such a good turn out we split into two groups with one team heading into the food bank for a deep clean. All the items were taken down and the shelves were given a thorough wipe down with antibacterial spray. Fridges were wiped down too. The other group was taken up to the stay and play toy cupboard where everything needed a re-organisation. All the boxes, toy equipment, books, mats and dressing up clothes were taken out of the cupboard, sorted into their appropriate box and then put back in a slightly more systematic approach.

It was just after 8pm when we finished and reconvened in The Pantry. We had the great honour of congratulating Jade who not only had done 100 good deeds but also achieved the most good deeds in Kingston in the January Challenge - she topped 28 good deeds. What a legend! She certainly deserved her crown, cap AND trophy this night. Well done, Jade! So pleased for your achievements and thank you for being a good sport and letting us dress you up.

And a big warm welcome to Camilla for joining our group on her second task to date! Great to hang out with you and hope to see you at another task soon.

Tonight we were joined by Harvey from Ealing GoodGym and he had a picked a wheelie good task. To get us geared up for our group run Rachel led the warm up and then we took the brakes off and ran to the shop.

Gary from Full Cycle ran through our tasks and made sure we were awake popping an inner tube in the air gun demo.

We free wheeled our way through the tasks at speed with Dave and Harvey pumping up inner tubes to check for leaks, Jule and Jade cleaning up bikes ready for new owners and Claire, Rachel and Emily removing valves and rolling up inner tubes.

We didn’t tyre and finished the session by all cleaning bikes and removing some very rusty bike accessories.

Tonight we were also joined by Camilla from Kingston Voluntary Action. Rachel was our spokesperson and gave an interview about the benefits of GoodGym.

We will be back in the saddle next month for an exciting new project with Full Cycle involving some children’s bikes.