We teamed up with Friends of Leagrave Park for our monthly litter pick. Thank you to Pastor Charmaine, Martin, Dave and Omar, plus other members of the community, we managed to make the park that bit prettier. Amongst the haul was a particular tortoise, a ‘message’ in a bottle and the famous drum kit.

Let’s hope that the tortoise is still breathing, wherever he may be.

This week's group run took us to the Capability Green business park where the task was to deliver flyers to all the businesses inviting them to use their corporate volunteering time to help the Keep Luton Tidy campaign on an upcoming litter picking day.

Splitting into two groups we whizzed around the park pretty quick which left plenty of time for some hill reps before we returned to our start point.

There was only one lonely goodgymer at the South Luton Litter pick but he wasn't lonely for long as the local residents made him very welcome. As always, Omar put in a great shift and helped in collecting the mound of litter. Well done Omar.

6 Luton Goodgymers joined Friends of Leagrave Park, Kev from ABCD-IN-LUTON and Spiderman on the monthly community litterpick.
As ever lots of interesting finds around the park, bags of tiles, cans, take away food, a drum kit, a scooter and the almost obligatory shopping trolley 🛒. In total whelmed to collect around 30 bags of rubbish 🗑 . Great effort by all involved. Well done 👏 ✔️ 👍🏻 👌 😀

It was pouring with rain this morning, but when has a bit of water ever been known to deter a Goodgymer from getting out and doing a good deed in the community?

While Gill and Darshini sensibly wore rain jackets, Omar decided to be more creative by improvising with a second litter bag and hoop. Well they do say, if you want to get ahead wear a hat. Jealous of his zany head wear, after finding a number of cones, Gill decided that these would also make a suitable hat for the task.

In fact there were 3 cones in total which we found, and the rain definitely felt like we were litter picking in a fountain! 3 Cones in a Fountain will hopefully give us good luck for the rest of the week - or at least for the rest of the litter mpick.

In fact luck was on our side as we managed to clear up some big ticket items including 2 pallets, a cupboard, some drawers and a television. We also had fun playing hoop-la with some cans - Omar was the best. I'm not sure what the other members of the South Luton Litter Pick thought of us, but when you're soaked ot the skin you have to find a way of making it fun.

Well done to the GoodGym Trio this morning, South Luton and Kevin at ABCD were really appreciative of our support.

6 Luton Goodgymers joined the FoLP and ABCD-IN-LUTON for this months community litterpick.
We started by welcoming our first timer Susannah who was glad to finally come out with us after signing up a little while ago. As the temperature was beginning to climb Kevin from ABCD-IN-LUTON reminded everyone to stay hydrated and he'd generously brought some bottles of water 💧 💧 💧 so everyone could take one on their way round the park. It was quite a leisurely walk around the park, past the site of the new Luton Henge project and along the river Lea. We gathered around 15 bags of rubbish 🗑 and the park looked a lot tidier after we'd all finished. David occupied his regular spot dangling like Spiderman over the river, fishing out all sorts of goodies only this time he had to fish out something a little more personal to himself as his phone dropped out of his pocket into the juice. He assured me it was ok 👍🏻 📱 . All in all it was a good task and we look forward to returning next month. Great job, well done 👏