We arrived at John Betts and discovered a small alleyway that time had forgot, covered in overgrown vines and with several concrete slabs and wooden posts to be disposed of.

We hoisted the concrete into the large school bins and split up the wooden posts with saws and foot stamps. Cutting back the vines led to an interesting incident where I had to convince neighbours to the school that I was not in fact a robber doing some gardening on my way to rob them.

Several others of us also gathered up the fallen leaves across the school yard. Though this likely was effective for all of a night before more replaced them, it would help in ensuring the surfaces of the school were slightly safer for the kids to play on.

Thanks to all for coming, including a fleeting visit (and volunteer) from Eloise!

9 awesome GoodGymers came out tonight to clear tons of litter (including bizarrely a lot of dumped paperwork 🤔) in Park Royal!

We also had a visit this week from the lovely Bethan from neighbouring GoodGym Hammersmith & Fulham 👋🏻

Lots of the classic finds this evening - beer cans, crisp packets and takeaway wrappers galore but also a huge pile of dumped paperwork. Jade had done the right thing of reporting it to the police in previous days (just in case!) but nothing had been done about it so we thought it was about time to get it cleared away!

Milly also found the purr-fect litter picking find.

'Amazing' - Shouted a cyclist on his way past

We agree! An amazing effort from everyone tonight and the problem pathway is litter free once more.