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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.

Featuring mixed woodland, meadow, a nature pond and butterfly glade, Boundary Brook is home to a rich variety of wildlife from birds and butterflies to frogs and foxes.

Oxford Urban Wildlife Group have asked for our help to with a mixture of tasks as they start reopening the site, including seeding grassland and building paths.

Please bring your own gardening gloves. Tools and litter pickers will be provided.

The task meeting point is outside the gate to Boundary Brook Nature Park, which is on the cycle way just past Larkrise Primary School at the end of Boundary Brook Road.

I have been a run leader for about 6 years now, with LiRF training and much experience leading Rose Hill Runners and covering for Anwen at GoodGym for 6 months. I am also a multiple marathon and ultra marathon runner as well as loving slow jogs to chat.

This session is aimed to get people back into regular running!

Meet behind the Rose Hill Community Centre on the field
We will then move to a good space of field where there aren't people and roughly do a session with :

Warm ups
Drills
A gentle running session as a whole group - we can do interval running faster then slower, or set a pace that feels right depending who is there - cool down

This is open to all abilities but aimed at people who can already jog for 30mins or more and run about 5k, more experienced runners welcome too

I have been a run leader for about 6 years now, with LiRF training and much experience leading Rose Hill Runners and covering for Anwen at GoodGym for 6 months. I am also a multiple marathon and ultra marathon runner as well as loving slow jogs to chat.

This session is aimed to get people back into regular running!

Meet behind the Rose Hill Community Centre on the field
We will then move to a good space of field where there aren't people and roughly do a session with :

Warm ups
Drills
A gentle running session as a whole group - we can do interval running faster then slower, or set a pace that feels right depending who is there - cool down

This is open to all abilities but aimed at people who can already jog for 30mins or more and run about 5k, more experienced runners welcome too

There is a lot of rubbish under the ring road bridge in Rivermead Rose Hill, this will take a good few trips and a bit of energy to bag up and lug up to a point the council can collect it.

Also the nature reserve both before and after the Bridge have quite a lot of litter which is bad for any wildlife and looks a bit horrible too

We will provide bin bags and litter pickers Please do bring your own gloves

The Children's allotment have requested our help on a monthy basis in 2021.

Come along and help the progress at one of our favourite places.

We will meet by the Halal butchers on Cricket Road and then walk round the corner to the allotment together.

Tasks usually include pruning, wood-chipping, gardening, clearing weeds etc.

Tools will be provided but please bring your own gardening gloves.

On 19th September join an attempt to have the most virtual 10ks run across the world.

This is how it works (from the Virtual Runner website)

1. you can run anywhere in the world.

2. if you feel like it, join the exclusive running group on Facebook (optional).

3. on the day of the run, record your run with a running app or watch and upload a screenshot or photo to our running portal.

4. after the run, you will receive your certificate to download and we will send you your medal (if you have added it) within 24 hours.

All details and the entry links are here

There are options to enter with or without getting a medal.

Happy Running!