With the YMCA Basingstoke having to cancel our session with them we quickly changed to doing some litter picking instead.

It was a beautiful evening and was quite fun getting back to our roots of litter picking. Eastrop Park was as always pretty tidy, but we found if we went a bit off the path there was still plenty of litter to be collected.

It was lovely having Guy join for their first session and Yeun at their second sesison.

In the end we filled 3 bags of litter and left the space looking much nicer! As always we had a fun time chatting as we went

It's always a great time at the Brookvale Village Hall and last night was no different. The mission for the day was to paint the rundown notice board and outdoor posts green and to blow up some flowers for the upcoming Brookvale in Bloom campaign!

It was amazing having Jane & Yeun join us for their first sessions and special shout out to Yuen who missed us at the Social Club so jogged to meet us at the Hall.

Samantha came properly prepared with a full painting outfit and Charli was very impressive with the amount of pain they managed get covered with!

Thanks to Tazmin for leading the walking group back and Yazid for coming with the jogging group.

We followed all of this up with some greta food at the Grrek Street which is a part of the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club.

Thank you once again to Brookvale Village Hall for the hospitality with tea and snacks!

Last nights session was a fun and hard working session in the play area of Eastrop Park. Our primary focus being the clearing the main play area of tanbark and weeds. As you can see from a before photo this are was absolutely covered making it a lot less appealing and more likely for kids to get hurt.

Alongside this Samantha went back to our GoodGym roots and litter picked the whole space while Evelyn did an amazing job clearing the seating area of weeds.

As always we met at the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club at 6:15 before 5 of us walked to Eastrop Park with Yazid meeting us on the way.

When we arrived we met Sandra from Basingstoke & Deane Council who greeted us with all brand spanking new gardening equipment and more importantly fruit/water.

Congratulations to Madeline who got accepted for her new job!

Well done to Sammi for spotting the heron first and carrying two very heavy bin bags with me and Charli cheering her on.

Its always nice doing a Walk Together session, especially when the weather is good and going past some gorgeous areas! Just check out some of those pictures!

Was amazing having 8 people at the session with Yazid at their first session and getting to welcome Lindsay & Sammi back for their first sessions in a while.

When walking through Crabtree Plantation Charli, Yazid and myself may have got a little distracted by the playground, where we all managed to get ourselves tangled up.

Make sure to check out the other Rambler Run sessions in the area here https://www.bvaction.org.uk/wellbeingwalks

We joined with the Walk N Talk team for their normal Monday afternoon walk from the War Memorial Park.

It was great, so many nice people and and great conversations all followed by a coffee at the Park Social.

These walks happen every week so please check them out here https://walkntalk4mentalhealth.org/walk-locations/

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Last nights session at the Rucstall Community Centre was great, Evelyn, Tazmin & I met at the Social Club before walking to the Community Centre where Samantha & Charli met us.

The mission for the day was to clear the back patio of weeds, blackberrys and leaves to make it a usable space. We managed to smash this job in less than an hour making a huge difference to the space!

So on the way back we decided to do some litter picking through War Memorial Park, and then had a well earned dinner and drinks from the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club.