Tonight 12 GoodGymers & 1 dog ran 5km to help clean up the Lakenham Way.

When we arrived Bek handed us each litter pickers and bin liners, and directed us in pairs to the areas most in need of a tidy up.

Amongst the finds this week were a discarded umbrella, a bike tire and a used homework book!

After 45 mins we had filled 9 bin bags ready to be collected, before we made our way back to the Forum.

Shout out to Elizabeth who celebrated her big birthday with her 150th Parkrun last week, and also Alina who will be running her 200th Parkrun this weekend!

It was a very wet morning this morning, 4 good gymers attended the task making up the total numbers to 15 which is very impressive for such a wet day.

Our main goal was to cut back brambles and some other foliage with the aim of making space for the orchard in the Wild Lakenham area. We had to be quite spread out due to the tools we used but we were also ably assisted by at least 3 dogs who were breaking down twigs very well.

Rose and Bobby subbed each other out halfway through the taks so we didn't get a photo all together, but hopefully I can add to the few photos we have already later on.

Onwards and orchards.

We had a last minute change of task this week. Thanks to the awesome Rebecca Dale, we were able to find an alternative task, to do a litter pick on Lakenham Way.

Becks met us with a load of litter pickers and bin bags, after a very hot and steamy run there, sadly not in an erotic way.

We then set off and collected as much litter as we could. Mark, Stephen & Jonathan focused on clearing an abandoned camp site.

All in all, we ended up collecting a good pile of cr@p.

So on a very cold sunday morning, we arranged our 4th community litter pick - we were shocked when over 20 people turned up (we only had 10 litter pickers!) so people teamed up - one bag one litter pick per twosome.

We had a quick look at the 'orchard' area which we are hoping to take over the management of, to ensure that the people of Lakenham get access to the apples - currently it's hard to get to them due to nettles and brambles!

We then split up - some people onto the boardwalk, some in the orchard, and some took the path up to the church - a very large amount of rubbish was collected, and lots of cake got eaten!

Some lovely Goodgymers joined some local residents on a litter pick.

It was pouring with rain and I was worried that no-one would turn up! but we had a lovely group who cleared a lot of litter!

We stopped for a bit of cake in the rain kindly provided by one of the lovely local residents, and then we all went home to get dry!

A lovely start to our new community group - thanks Goodgym for making it start so well!