Worthing

Group run

Yew Never Knew

8 GoodGymers made their way 7.0km to help the Heene Cemetery in Worthing.

  • JULIA GLEESON
  • Belinda Robinson
  • Kevin Robinson
  • Sarah
  • Paula Marten
  • John Robinson
  • Worthing runner
  • Ryan
 
Monday, 22nd of July 2024
 
Led by JULIA GLEESON

A Classic GoodGym Worthing Welcome

This evening we were back at one of our favourite tasks at Heene Cemetery. With Sue on her holidays in France we were greeted by Rob and Jane who are also volunteers of the 'Friends of Heene Cemetery' We had been asked to go along and do our annual raking of the strimming activity that the council had carried out last week.

It was so nice to meet another Mr Robinson today.
John brought along his brother Kevin who had first registered interest in GG back in 2018 when support was being gauged for a new area in Carlisle - unfortunately this didn't happen meaning it was, in fact, Kevin's first task today! 👏 ( hopefully not his last!! )

it was great to see Sarah and Ryan tonight who arrived early and had already filled at least half a bag of strimmings by the time I arrived !

Paula Belinda and Ricky immediately got stuck into the raking and the whole team finished relatively quickly.

This left time for Rob, who photographs and logs all the different 660 species of wildlife etc that has been found in the cemetery, to give us a short talk on the cemetery. Ge particularly focused on the trees including the very old Yew Tree that was there before the walls of the cemetery were put in place.

If you want to take a deeper dive into the history of the cemetery click on the link below.

https://www.heenecemetery.org.uk/

Thanks everyone and have a great week!

Julia x

Report written by JULIA GLEESON


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