Giro d'Rawcliffe Country Park

On a wet Tuesday afternoon 15 GoodGym Yorkies invaded the Rawcliffe Country Park and the adjacent Park & Ride site in search of litter.

We started with few announcements and welcomed our new member Nick. Give him a big cheer folks!

Helen is nearly there to earn her black top. Big cheer please!

Massive cheer to Jenna for achieving her 100 good deed today. She was presented with the traditional cape to wear throughout the task.

With announcements done the task owner Kristina talked us through the assignment. We had the first ever opportunity to test the extra-long litter picker, a tool designed to make pulling out rubbish from the undergrowth easy. Equipped with regular and long pickers, green bags and portable lights we headed to the park’s pump track and woodland where, we were told, the litter was. After a quick sweep we realised that the pump track does not have much litter to offer and we focussed on the P&R, which has proven to be litter rich. Just under 1 hour of chatty litter picking produced 20 bags full of typical assortment of cans, plastic wrappers, paper packaging and glass bottles.

We even found a hoover - Nick

Gathered together to admire our findings we posed for a socially distanced group photo. After some further chat it was time to say good bye and run, cycle or walk home.

Our autumnal spring clean does not end here. We are litter picking on the Hob Moor tomorrow and on the fields at the back of the Westfield Primary School on Thursday.