On this warm and sunny Sunday morning a team of three from GoodGym joined a couple of local residents and Kevin from ABCD to tackle an overgrown alleyway connecting Montrose Avenue to Carlton Crescent.

The alleyway was closing up with the ivy on the fences closing in and the weeds in the sides growing unchecked. But with an hour's effort from the collective of volunteers, spurred on by the thanks of passing residents, we soon got it all cleared clean with a transformed view through to the other end.

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It’s a busy Easter weekend, but one Goodgymer was able to slot a litter pick in between the Easter preparations. I joined the London Road Litter Pickers to tidy up this stretch of the main road into Luton. There was plenty of rubbish to keep us busy, especially when I came across 7 bags of nappies, food and other rubbish that had been split open and were spilled over the street. Not the most pleasant of tasks, but it certainly made a difference to the local area.

This morning I joined Kev from ABCD-IN-LUTON, students and teachers from Chantry Primary Academy and a spiderman on the latest leg of the Great British Spring Clean. It was great to see so many of the children out with their teachers, giving up their Sunday morning to help be a part of such a good cause. All the children were excited to see Spiderman who came to help with litterpick. I brought my Dad a long to help and he was just as excited to see Spiderman as the children were. Everyone did great today and in my opinion although we had a comic book legend with us, the children and their teachers are just as worthy of the title Superheroes 😀.

Well done to everyone who took part. 👏

2 Goodgymers from the Luton massive supported Bramingham residents on a community litterpick as part of the Great British Spring Clean led by abcd-in-luton.
The turn out for the event was amazing with roughly 30 individuals ready to fill bags as part of this national initiative. The litterpick only lasted an hour but the group still managed to collect a vast haul of rubbish from the local area. Litterpicks often throw up little surprises but occasionally you finds something that puts a smile on your face on a personal level. Today whilst pulling bottles and cans from a hedgerow, I found a toy police car which reminded me of many years ago when I would play with cars for hours as a young boy. It genuinely gave me a warm feeling inside. Unfortunately it only had 2 wheels so couldn't really be passed on to anyone else to have fun with. It was a really great event and really felt like the group was a community that cared. Great effort today Goodgym, our support was greatly appreciated. 👍🏻

It was a great pleasure to be part of this program today, indeed I made a good decision joining Goodgym!

Well I guess it would be nice.... to do another litterpick at Leagrave Park. This month along with helping the FoLP with their monthly litterpick, this task was also helping Kevin from ABCD-IN-LUTON complete another leg of his Great British Spring Clean challenge, where he is working with lots of different community groups to help get Luton Tidy and Keep Britian Tidy as part of a national initiative that he has spearheaded locally for the last few years. 6 Luton Goodgymers joined some local residents to see what they could find on the walk around the park today. A purse, an iPhone, a rather scary knife (which was dealt with appropriately) a sign for a car boot sale, the arm of a sofa and a drone amongst other delights all added to a haul of roughly 20 bags of rubbish. The team had fun too some taking on the woodland, others enjoying a nice stroll in the sunshine and a couple opting to get the waders on and head into the river Lea. But before that river becomes an ocean I need to give a shout out to our GG first timer Osama Faith. I hope you enjoyed the task and we look forward to seeing you out with the team again soon. Another great effort today team 👏 Well done everyone.