In conjunction with a long term restoration plan by the Council's Parks team, the Luton and Dunstable Conservation volunteer team, and the Friends of Dallow Downs, the mission in the middle of our run this week was targeting litter in a neglected area of the Dallow Downs.

Previous conservation activity to clear the scrub in the wooded areas revealed a lot of litter in the undergrowth, we got in there supported by Kevin from ABCD-in-Luton with the equipment and foraged 16 bags of litter from amongst the trees. Also dragged out was some laminate flooring, several wooden pallets, a drawer and a traffic cone.

On our return journey we stopped by Brantwood park for a quick blast of sprint intervals to really stretch the legs before calling it a night.

Marshalling the Love Luton Run Fest was our third and final Run Fest volunteering session, after delivering road closure notices and packing the volunteer bags.

We were stationed at a point where we got to see all the fresh faced runners heading out and the sweaty ones coming back in again so double chance to cheer people along! DJ Duncan brought the music and we all joined in with the spectators to encourage the runner and give an extra big cheer to some of the friendly faces we've encountered through GoodGym!

An alternative start point for this evening at the Wardown House museum, to cut the distance to our task down slightly. We welcomed new joiner Adam who brought the group up to seven.

Once warmed up, we headed to the Bushmead Hub where Matt from the Wildlife Trust had left us a task to sand down a couple of picnic benches in their nature garden.

With seven pairs of hands it was a quick and effective sanding job, swiftly followed by a fresh lick of paint in a shade called Willow.

We used up the can of paint, cleaned up our brushes and the drips, admired a job well done, then headed back along Old Bedford Road to a cool down stretch in Wardown Park, accompanied by the sounds of owls in the dark trees.

A small group this week, but determined to get the task done! We had a fast walk for 30 minutes to get us to the Holy Trinity Church where William had a quick vacuuming task for us. We got in between the pews, high up the windows, finding all the dust and spiders webs and clearing them away.

Leaving the church looking a good deal fresher we returned to the town centre with another power walk!

The Love Luton RunFest is coming up, and for Luton's biggest running event some roads will be closed, so it was our task this evening to run a long section of the route and deliver letters informing the residents of the details of the road closure.

With walkers and runners on the task the walkers started in town and delivered their way out, while the runners ran out and started delivering they way back into town. Meeting in the middle with all the houses notified we declared the task complete and returned to the start point.