This week we welcomed Omar to his first session with us and then split the team up to tackle two tasks.

We had a long range running crew of 4 people who headed off to Dallow and up Winsdon Hill, where litter picking was the task of the day. After 50 minutes rummaging around the long grass and woods on the hill an impressive pile of bulging litter bags and general dumped junk was hauled out and left by the roadside for collection by the council.

Meanwhile, a walking team headed off to South Luton armed with flyers for FoodCycle who need to find some more volunteers for their Tuesday night dinners. Their target for the night was a climb up the steep and twisty Armstrong Road, where effort is rewarded with a commanding view of the airport from the top.

Finally, a pair of runners who fancied a shorter run chased down the walkers and ran straight up to the top of the hill and started flyering their way down until they met the walkers again.

The flyers were all delivered in double quick time with so many on the task, whereas the litter pickers, despite bringing in an impressive haul, had to leave most of the hillside unpicked, but we will be back!

It was a scorcher at Leagrave Park this morning for this months litterpick as 8 of our dedicated Goodgymers got there sun hats and sun block out so they could support the Friends of Leagrave Park and abcd-in-luton with regular community litterpick. it was lovely to walk about in such a beautiful setting, which benefits so much from a monthly tidy up. Today there was roughly 15 bags collected, a buggy and a safe... yes a safe. Its fair to say it was a workout carrying (and dragging) it back to base. The folp had provided water for everyone that wanted it which was greatly appreciated at the end of the task. Magnificent effort today team 👏

5 of Luton Goodgyms finest had an early start at Leagrave Park this morning. The team set out to maintain the trees planted as part of the peace garden initiative run by Luton Borough Council. We cut back the long grass around the trees and weeded, mulched and watered them. Getting the water was a workout itself as Duncan and I filled up a couple of large containers with water from the river Lea and carried it across the cricket field to where the trees were. 🌳 The weather was nice and we managed to tend to the majority of the trees 🌳. Great effort team 👏

A hot and sweaty Wednesday night saw the group get together to deliver flyers to High Town homes, inviting residents to a wellbeing and juicing event by local charity Azalea. Being so hot and not having a huge distance to cover we stuck with walking so the whole group could stick together on the way.

With 500 flyers in hand we then split up into two groups to tackle different areas and with a group of 10 we were empty handed in no time at all.

That just left one more task for the night. Gill had left a batch of GoodGym cupcakes at the pub to celebrate reaching 300 good deeds, so we made our way over there and enjoying a round of cooling drinks and cupcakes. 🧁 🍻 🍹