Couldn't Organise a Clean-Up in a Brewery

A massive 50 GG Yorkies walked and ran for a huge Space Invaders clear-up.

Space Invaders is a very cool project which takes disused spaces and turns them into something for community benefit. In this case, the old York Brewery at the Malthouse is being turned into a souk, an affordable place for the craftspeople, makers and independent food sellers of York to sell their wares.

Space Invaders will be able to continue to use the space, which is destined to become a hotel, until the planning permission comes through.

But before we could go and invade some space, first we had to welcome one brand new runner, Rich, to the gang (go give him a cheer) and then we announced the GG Yorkie of the Month for September..... massive cheers and a big well done to Bec!!

Mitch led a group on a 5k loop to get there whilst the walkers and the rest of the runners took the shorter option which was all of 550m.

'Grubby' is a bit of a gross understatement for the inside of the warehouse. Task owner Emily was at the ready with many huge soapy trugs, bags of rags and a selection of tools and dust masks. She'd also written and sellotaped a list of tasks on the wall of each room.

There was small stuff to move, big stuff to move, carpets to pull up, cobwebs to pull down and nails to extract from beams, but mostly, there were walls and floors to scrub. Very dirty walls and floors.

I've got a big dirty puddle and nowhere to put it - Ellie G

The big downstairs area was well underway when Mitch's running crew arrived so they headed upstairs to pull nails out of beams, help move one gigantic desk, sweep and scrub the staircase and start to clean the large upstairs area.

Only half of the building had power so there were a lot of very dark staircases and side rooms. Beth was lighting the way and keeping everyone safe with the light from her phone on the creepy stairwell.

I'm certain I've seen this place on Most Haunted!

After we had done as much scrubbing as we could do, everybody headed downstairs where we completed a workout involving people having to interpret their own way to complete floor exercises without putting their hands on the floor.

We are back to do more tasks at the Malthouse on Thursday between 6 and 8pm, come and join us!