We had a fantastic day down at the Berry Maze, mainly celebrating Danica's amazing achievement, 400 tasks with Goodgym! That's awesome dedication to the cause. Thank you!

This day was a bit different, as we had joined up with Jackie down at the Berry Maze to help with their Litter-pick/Easter egg hunt. To anyone outside of Goodgym and the local community, that sounds like a strange combination, but that's just the way we roll down here! A few neighbours, with their egg hunting kids, joined Jackie and the four of us as we scoured the areas around the berry maze looking for litter and other un-pleasantries.

How did Danica celebrate? By getting stuck right in the river, helping the locals pull out shopping trolleys, toys, and who knows what else finds it's way down there. Frances found an empty bottle of Rain Repellent, which would have been very handy during the 10 min down pour that happened halfway through.

As you can see from the photos, 90 mins of community action can get a lot done. Heaps of litter removed from our local rivers and green spaces, making it a much nicer place to be.

Thanks for coming along every one Incredible work all round!

A group of us attended Manor Woods Valley group’s regular volunteering session to clear scrub from a wildflower meadow. It was lovely to see some cowslips and native daffodils already blooming on what they call the ‘Rabbit Field’. We had a first time Goodgymer today so well done to Nell for your first task! We cleared a massive site which was satisfying to see the progress made. Don’t worry there’s still plenty of scrub left for nesting birds. After the task was finished we were treated to some Manor Woods Valley apple juice made from the apples we helped harvest last year.

We had a fantastic turn out at the berry maze this weekend, with 9 goodgymers rocking up to help Barney and Jackie at the berry maze. Only due to some last min issues arising, there was no Barney or Jackie! They left me some instructions and given how well we've been taking care of the place, they had faith we'd do okay without their weed identifying powers.

We had some lovely spurts of sunshine accompanied by some great goodgym chatter, and within one hour we managed to de-weed a good third of the maze. We also settled a debate I've been wondering about for a long time, as I had been mistaking bluebells for Hyacinth(don't ask), so thanks to David and his wonderful AI App skills for working that out!

Props to Emma who not only managed to mow the majority of the maze in one session, but did a great job of rescuing some bulbs that that started to grow in to the path. Nice one!

Also, we welcomed some new goodgymers to the berry maze, thanks for coming Nadia and Arron! Loved that you both got stuck in. Arron has also suggested that we named the unofficial berry maze mascot 'Horace the horse' whicjh I'm on-board with.

Cheers everyone! There's another berry maze session later this month, check it out here