36 incredible people joined me in Camden, helped Scope in their charity shop, ran over 6km, walked and celebrated TEN years of GoodGym!

Well what an evening that was! We returned to our usual home at the St Pancras & Somers Town Living Centre, we celebrated Kat and Rosie turning three, Rosie hitting 100 good deeds AND GoodGym's 10th birthday... AND we introduced everyone to Ben Hansen-Hicks the shiny new Camden trainer... and breathe!

As part of the #GG10 celebrations we had our lovely GoodGym flag with us and because we just do things better in Camden we had some shiny gold balloons to join our run for both Rosie's 100 and of course the 10th birthday. We also had copies of the wonderful Fit Together the book produced by GoodGym with stories from the first ten years.

After a huge intro with all of the above fitted in and news on #SuperSaturday (A day full of missions for every area this Saturday) and of course the health and safety and info on the task we headed on out and got warmed up!

On a celebratory night like this it was great to have everyone together and whilst it is always hard to manage we all safely walked and ran to the Scope charity shop. Once there Helen had us all queued up and divvied out roles. Tasks tonight:

• Donation collections outside
• Mannequin dressing
• Various cleaning work
• Shoe sorting
• Trouser measuring
• Clothes tagging
• and a whole lot more...

Half an hour of hard work later we were all piling out and getting ready for the next stage of the evening. With our flag with us, ably looked after by Ben, we headed off to various locations to get some fantastic photos for the GG10 celebrations.

• Camden Road Bridge
• Gasholders at King's Cross
• Francis Crick Institute
• Somers Town Coffeehouse

Thanks to George, Liuba, Ben and Steve for co-ordination and direction and phone-lending for all the photos.

Finally we stretched and then we headed to the pub to celebrate with cakes made by Liz and Rosie, some prosecco from the pub and party poppers from Sophie!

All in all a wonderful night of celebration with TEN and ONE HUNDRED being the key numbers!

Cheers,
Pritesh

It was great to join Liam for his first GG mission and we met at Ms B's after he had hotfooted over from the Bristol group run this morning, clocking up some impressive miles in the process.

On arrival, Ms B and her friend asked if we could have a go at mowing and strimming the lawn which, despite being a bit damp, was dry enough to give this a go.

We found an ancient, non-powered, mower in Ms B's storage cupboard, but we quickly realised this would take about three weeks to cut the grass after Liam had tried to move it up the garden.

There was a very slightly newer electric mover in the cupboard, so I set about cutting one side of the front lawn, whilst Liam got busy with a strimmer on the other side. Very quickly, however, the mower started smoking so we gave up on that and Liam managed to do both sides with the strimmer before heading round to the back to start there.

In the meantime, I employed a three-weaponed attack on some weeds and brambles, employing the use of a little gardening fork, secateurs and shears, to tidy up some of the area around the front and side of the garden.

Without an extension lead, Liam found that he could only tackle around one third of the back garden, but it's already looking a lot tidier.

Ms B very kindly rewarded us with some tea and cake and enjoyed a natter with us about some of the clubs that she attends in the local area and what the area was like during the second world war and how she had lived in the same house all of her life - a lovely end to our mission.

It would be great to go back and do a bit more at some point.