Lorenzo
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Doing good since February 2019
80Good deeds
80runs
333cheers
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Litter picking with Dora in Sunnymead and Cutteslowe park (Part 4)
This Sunday evening great weather to do some litter picking with an amazing company (the little Dora). She was very supportive and awake all the time 😃 helping cleaning the park from some litters left after the Sunday picnic.
Lorenzo has forgone the usual weekend routine. Instead of lie-ins, roasts and strolls around the park Lorenzo has dropped everything to run a GoodGym mission for someone who needed help. Respect
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Litter picking in Sunnymead and Cutteslowe park (Part 3)
Another litter picking during this weekend bank holiday, in company with Tessa and the little Dora more inside the Cutteslowe park.😊
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Five tonnes of fun
It's the return of light evenings: No more Wednesday GoodGyming in the dark!
Our first post-clock-change task was at one of our regular locations - Boundary Brook Nature Park. Over the course of the last year we've been gradually extending the gravel paths around the site. We have an efficient system for the task nailed now, so we set to work with a dozen wheelbarrows moving in convoy, and an ace shovelling team. We were able to keep a constant flow of gravel moving through the Nature Park and getting deposited at Henry and Helen's feet for raking and spreading into a smooth(ish) pathway. We even spotted a deer rushing through the woodland as we worked.
It was great to see the bird hide coming together over in the wildflower meadow section of the Nature Park, as we shifted a lot of the wood to make the structure on a previous GoodGym task, and also weeded bramble roots out of the area to creare a smooth space for it. :-) People will now be able to get to it on a smooth new gravel path.
In total we shifted approximately 5 tonnes of gravel to extend the wheelchair-friendly paths around the nature park which we started back in April 2021. That works out at 1/3 of a tonne per GoodGymer - A more than decent workout! I'm sure we're all feeling it in our arms and shoulders this morning.
Welcome to GoodGym Nadeem!
You can find out more about Oxford Urban Wildlife Group, who manage the Nature Park, here.
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Litter picking in Sunnymead and Cutteslowe park (2 part, with shoes :-))
Second walk in Sunnymead and Cutteslowe park. Still some leiiter to pick included a pair of shoes :-?
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Boundary Brook Nature Park
Back on the spring/summer tasks now the clocks have changed!
Boundary Brook Nature Park was created in 1990 when a group of community wildlife enthusiasts rescued a plot of disused allotments to carve out a wild space in the heart of East Oxford. 30 years on the space is thriving, with mixed woodland, meadow, a nature pond and butterfly glade.
Oxford Urban Wildlife Group have asked for our help to finish building the paths we started last May. We’ll do a Saturday afternoon session in April too.
Please bring your own gardening gloves. All other tools will be provided.
Meeting options:
* Anyone wishing to run or walk to the task as a group please meet in the car park of the Richard Benson Hall, 276b Cowley Rd at 6pm. There will be running and walking routes planned. It's less than a mile to Boundary Brook Nature Park. There won’t be a bag drop available.
* If you would prefer to meet at the task please meet us outside Larkrise Primary on Boundary Brook Road at 6:15pm.
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Canoe and kayak taster session with Falcon Boat Club
Please note that this party has been cancelled.
Falcon Boat Club have kindly offered GoodGym Oxford a free taster session as thanks for our past support.
12:30 Arrive for safety briefing 1-3pm On the water
People are welcome to bring their own paddle boards if they have them. Also, everyone should bring a change of clothes past in case.
The cafe will be open for ice creams and sandwiches.
331 Meadow Ln, Oxford OX4 4BJ
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Happy Birthday to Us
We had a lovely evening of chat, drinks, dressing up and games at the Lord Mayor's Parlour to belatedly celebrate GoodGym Oxford's 3rd Birthday.
Congratulations everyone for smashing past 5000 Good Deeds in 3 years!
Thank you Mark for hosting us.
Good luck to Amy and Laura who are both moving this month. We'll miss you!
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Time to check out the Lord Mayor’s Parlour
We’ve got another chance to have a ‘do’ at the Lord Mayor’s Parlour, this time to mark (pun intended) 3 years of GoodGym in Oxford.
We will have a couple of hours to relax in the grand surroundings of the town hall and toast friendships made, good deeds done, and all the ways you’ve made the city a better, more connected place over the last 3 years.
Lorenzo has just done something they've never done before. Lorenzo has just run a mission; they've changed their running route and run to help someone who really needed their help.
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