Three GoodGymers met earlier than usual on a balmy Monday evening. A quick run around Leazes Park was following by volunteering for almost two hours with NUFC Fans' Foodbank outside St James' Park, at the first home match of the season against Liverpool.

GoodGym really made a difference tonight as the number of other volunteers was lower than usual. Many generous donations were received, especially by Scott, who had the prime location at the end of the street near the traffic lights. At the end of the night we also made a difference by helping to dismantle the gazebo, with one volunteer commenting "we'd have been here ages if you all hadn't been here".

Two GoodGymers set off from Stepney Bank Stables, bound for the Quayside and armed with litter pickers and bin bags. They managed to get the task done before the downpour came shortly afterwards, which was good timing.

Five bags were filled with litter and deposited in bins. Some areas tonight were so badly littered that it looked like a bin had exploded. A successful evening, including a couple of new roads and footpaths explored.

On a very windy evening in Newcastle, thankfully Stepney Bank Stables' top yard has some very high walls and fantastic levels of shelter. The task tonight was to prepare the walls to be painted and, if time allowed (it didn't), paint them.

Three GoodGymers set to work scraping and brushing the walls to remove any loose material and dirt. Scott braved the ladder to extend the reach of the task. Quite a lot of material was removed from the walls, making for a successful evening.

On a very pleasant Monday evening , two GoodGymers headed off towards Byker in order to get fit, pick up some litter and deliver some GoodGym flyers.

Success was achieved in all three regards. A short, but undulating run to start with, followed by clearing Byker High Street and some of the surrounding streets of much of the litter. There must be a high proportion of smokers in the area as the sheer volume of cigarette ends were impossible to pick up, so we concentrated on larger items. The evening finished with delivering the GoodGym flyers on the boundary between Byker and Heaton.

The only failure on the day was Scott's litter picker, which had developed a crack in the handle. Scott managed to put it back together several times, but that litter picker has gone into retirement.