We welcomed Sharon to her very first GoodGym session this morning - it was so lovely to meet you! We hope to see you at another session soon 😀

Thanks to the JPR Volunteers Rob, Lo and the ever-present Dave for your arriving early to help with some filming for parkrun too.

Aoife and mini-GGer Aida made great time as parkwalkers, whilst Sammy was on barcode scanning, and even managed some parenting first aid whilst still volunteering!

Great job, team!

A lovely hot & sunny morning working with the Friends of Nore Barn Woods (FONBW), clearing bramble and overhanging branches from the path along the foreshore and in the woods. The FONBW volunteers are always so welcoming, and there were a lot of interesting conversations as well as great conservation! I wax a lone GGer today and chatted to people walking along the paths about the tasks we were doing and about how essential volunteering is to many organisations, even for just 1 hour a month! Come and join next month if you can!

2nd report written after the first deleted itself. So this is the basic!

We put up gazebos, tables, gave directions and walked cars to their pitches.

Todays group run saw us head back to North End baptist to help them with their weed problem. Catherine gave us a tour of their newly refurbished hall that looks incredible! And then we were put to task with gloves and bags to pull out the weeds and clear the accumulated rubbish.

We found many ant colonies that were none to pleased with us removing their cover from the summer sun. But we had a very importANT job to do. I am happy to report that unlike most litter picks, no pANTs were found this time!

We left with some kindly donated cold beverages to help cool off.

The first hour today was all about weeding! Not our favourite task, but we had a great incentive to get on with it! Following this we were excited to finally be able to plant and wildflower seed the 'Friends of Victoria Park' bay which sits alongside the Greenhouse hub amongst several others. Each are being looked after by different groups with a mix of veggies, herbs, plants and flowers. Our bay will change season to season and the plan is to graft some of the plants elsewhere in the park, as well as have people bring from their own gardens to be sustainable. We'll each take responsibility to water, weed and generally maintain our bay to keep it looking fresh and attractive to insects and visitors to the Park. We celebrated it's 'opening' with a good water and for us volunteers some refreshments and biscuits!

3 Goodgymers- Fiona, Pat and Richard - attended All Saints Foodbank today to prepare, pick, pack and put away parcels of provisions for our Foodbank clients.