We were joined by Rachel who is brand new to goodgym, welcome Rachel.

I came up with a plan so we finish by 8pm. 40 minutes litter picking and 40 minutes running.

the route for the litter pick was down by Wanstead Leisure Center, and then back up to Wanstead station. Somewhat surprising, we didnt find a lot of litter near the center, but there was a bit more near the motorway up to the station, overall 1 and half bags of rubbish.

The run we chose a big loop, which might be a good route for a litter pick next time as we spotted a fair few peices whilst running.

running done, and stretches accomplished we called it done, well done all, next googym group session is the babybank 🤞

Pierre of the Transition Ilford Forest Garden team requested GG presence at the Garden so he could appraise us of what is new there and enlist our help. Four of us made our way over to the Garden post parkrun.

Sadly the hot summer and difficulty watering has meant a lot of last years planting didn't go as planned. It is hoped that we might be able to help in future.

In the meantime we were able to assist in taming some of the more robust overgrowth by pulling up some grass and weeds near the fences. James and Katherine cut back a lot of tiny saplings that would stop the existing trees from thriving with Linda piling up the cuttings and Ed built up one of the woven fences.

Pierre sends " thanks for a quick and great job" and is making plans for future tasks.