Ben Foster


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Balsam Bash (1)
🗓Today 6:30pm

📍Life Leisure Bramhall SK7 2JT

The Friends' group struggle to remove balsam, which is widespread throughout the valley, so any extra help is welcome

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Ben Foster went on a group run

Mon 30th Jun at 6:15pm

All swings and litter picks

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

On a balmy June Monday evening, 5 GoodGymers collected 10ish bags of discarded litter and waste.

Stefanie, Sam, Pavel, and Ben strolled from St Peter's Square via the Bridgewater Hall canal path to Hulme Park, collecting all sorts on the way:

  • bottles, cans, drinks cartons 🥫
  • vapes, air pods 📢
  • cardboard packaging 📦
  • takeaway waste 🗑

With 4 full sacks collected, and some litter hotspots identified, we met Gaynor in Hulme park, sporting her GoodGym t-shirt for the 1st time 😀

We made a loop around Hulme park, having a go on the swing and impressed with the relative lack of litter given the warm picnic-friendly weather. We did find a suitcase, some more clothing and empty money bags in the park, plus other litter, while keeping to the shade given the heat 🥵.

Litter bags were collated, location saved, and will be reported (some again) to Keep MCR Tidy for collection.

Good stroll and litter pick in the sun 🌞

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Sun 29th Jun at 9:00am

Balmy juniors

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Back in Oxford to help with the warm up and timekeeping at Florence Park junior parkrun event #223. Only 94 juniors this week with warm temperatures and cruk race for life going on in the city centre.

Lots of good runners and plenty volunteers.

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Ben Foster went on a community mission

Sat 28th Jun at 9:00am

Friendly tails

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Juno and I helped with tail walking at University Parks parkrun event #175. 591 runners and walkers completed the 5 km 2-lap course. We were joined by Sarah from Bristol with quite a lot of latecomers too!

Dusty and warm. Nice run there beforehand.

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Ben Foster went on a group run

Tue 24th Jun at 6:15pm

Plenty of planters

Stockport Report written by Laura Boldison

Another successful session back at What If? where Ben, Niamh and Laura helped to line and plant out new planters gifted to the café.

We filled the planters with herbs, veg, seeds and flowers, whilst learning about combination planting!

We finished off the evening with pasta salad and heard all about the exciting plans What If? have in the pipeline.

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Tue 24th Jun at 10:32pm

Do you have any GoodGym tasks in Manchester this weekend, as I will be visiting Didsbury and would love to do a bit of GoodGym tourism while I'm there.

Laura Boldison

Wed 25th Jun at 7:22am

Hi Gill, I've replied to you via email!

Ben Foster

Wed 25th Jun at 5:23pm

Hi Gill. Nothing listed until Monday in Manchester but Fletcher Moss parkrun will be needing some volunteers with other local parkruns cancelled

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Mon 7th Jul at 4:30pm

Gorse Hill Studios Green Rooms

Empower and challenge young people through creativity

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Sun 22nd Jun at 11:30am

Peel Park Pride

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Welcome to Megha and Olawale for their first GoodGym outing! Kudos for getting out to help today, particularly Olawale coming from Wigan 💪

Today, we were helping out the Friends of Peel Park tidy up following Salford Pride the previous day. Some of the gating and stalls were still up from what sounded like a good day, despite the long queues at the bar! 🏳️‍🌈

We collected 12 or 13 sacks of rubbish, mostly of cans, bottles, raffle tickets 🎟 and confetti 🎊. We found a football too, that a local made use of, and made a really good job removing litter from the playground that looks much more welcoming now 😀

Salford City Council's litter picker locker is really handy too, apparently being well used (and thankfully not abused or damaged) so locals can pick up litter when walking. Little and often really does help 🚮

Gaynor and Ben made the ~3 km walk from Manchester city centre there and back 👣 and thankfully, the rain steered clear 🌧 so we didn't get too wet.

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