Back for its ninth year, the Great British Spring Clean is the nation’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign.

The Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean 2024 takes place from 15 - 31 March, and you can pledge to pick up a bag of litter – or more.

Last year, the army of amazing #LitterHeroes pledged to pick more than 400,000 bags of litter.

Several times a year, GoodGym Stockport take part in Plogging group runs to help to keep our wonderful community free of litter and debris.

Our run began from Life Leisure Avondale, with 7 runners in tow, armed with litter pickers, gloves and bags! We ran a circular 7.5km route, covering Edgeley, Cale Green and finally Adswood.

We focused some of our attention on the area around a local school and received wonderful feedback from the Headteacher who appreciated our efforts to keep the area clean.

We even had BAGS of fun doing so!

Last night's group run was a 7km circuit in aid of Comic Relief. A local community leisure centre, and our designated start base, had set a challenge to raise support for Comic Relief and so we jumped (or ran!) on board.

Our challenge was to run the miles between two of the leisure centers. So that we did, with smiles on our faces and talk of gardening tasks to come!

This week, our task was to support the dedicated folk at the Stockport Community Post to deliver newspapers to the local area.

Equipped with sacks and bags of motivation, we set off laden with good news!

A chatty 6km (with extra car park laps) later and the job was done!

We were even papped on the move! Speed of light!

This week's group run felt like the first of the spring run so we took the opportunity to get in a social and chatty 5km circuit.

We covered paths and parks while catching up on life's adventures and shaking off the daily grind!

We are looking forward to getting stuck back in to our green tasks as the lights become lighter!

Sometimes, taking pleasure in the small things like the cloudless sky and some active miles makes for a Runderful life!