Vicky Hearson

GoodGym York

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Catherine
Pete
Vicky Hearson
Leanne

Clean up for Mela

Sunday 17th May

Written by Pete

A good day weather wise for all to enjoy the fun and focus on all communities, health and wellbeing. The Good gym stand had seen a steady stream of people and thanks to all that manned the stand during the day. The evening task in the warm sun was basically the opposite of setting up but very quickly the GG volunteers that turned up late on with the all the rest of the volunteers and organisers had made light work of the Gazebos .....

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David Barrett
Laura Barrett
Leanne

Weed Better Keep Clearing

Sunday 17th May

Written by Laura Barrett

Leanne, David and Laura pulled up lots of weeds and grass and planted some courgettes and beans and watered them. Lots of new local people joined us. The end.

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Laura Barrett
Vicky Hearson
Jenna Drury
Leanne

Mind your fingers

Sunday 17th May

Written by Vicky Hearson (she/her)

more gazebo erecting, moving tables and chairs and just been lovely and helpful

York Mela is ready to go!

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Libby
Tracey Oxley
Vicky Hearson
Jenna Drury
Leanne

A gazillion gazebos

Saturday 16th May

Written by Vicky Hearson (she/her)

We met in museum gardens in slightly damp conditions to help set up for the art and health Mela tomorrow.

Our main job was to erect many gazebos!

We'll be back tomorrow morning to help with moving tables, then goodgym will be at a stall all day

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James Tilburn
Nicola Gover
Leanne

Step on it

Friday 15th May

Written by Nicola Gover

The Crichton Road steps were reported as needing a tidy up - despite looking to our GoodGym eyes quite tidy already! We set to it clipping and ripping, until the big guns turned up (aka the battery pack strimmer). I called dibs and strimmed away at the more overgrown path, while Leanne and James took the hands on approach with the other path.

Soon enough, everything was shipshape again and we went on our merry way (some expected to be merrier than others!)

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Becca Maude
Neil Bushell
Vicky Hearson
Nicola Gover
Ed Woollard

Courtyard weeding

Thursday 14th May

Written by Vicky Hearson (she/her)

Tonight we returned to Acomb primary to help tidy up their courtyard

There were even raised beds which I could access with my recovering hip!

After an hour we'd made good progress and will be returning in July for another session.

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