It was a nice (and very familar for parkrunners) run round Pitchcroft racecourse to get to the Community Garden on Tuesday. We were there to build a flood garden but arrived to find another volunteer group had beaten us to it. The job was already done! Luckily the Community Garden is never short of jobs for people so we were quickly assigned some new tasks to keep us busy. It helps that Alison is a regular volunteer at the gardens so knew her way around and showed us the ropes, or in this case the chips! In front of us was a large pile of wood chips that was cluttering up the entrance to the wildlife garden and needed to be bagged up. Soon we had a fleet of wheelbarrows queued up and Kirsty, Fiona and Liam armed with shovels and ready to fill them up with the chips. Meanwhile Alison and Marcus were set to task cleaning up a bench in the wildlife garden and a kitchen sink unit that will be used...well we never found out what it was for! After 30 minutes of shovelling and scrubbing the whole place looked neat and tidy again with the chips in the bag and everything swept. We finished our lap of the racecourse to get back to The Hive and had definitely worked up an appetite for some chips of the potato variety!

History was made once again on the famous Fort Royal Hill when the very first GoodGym Worcester session arrived at the park to help out Karen, one of the Environmental Rangers . The original job of watering trees had already been kindly completed by mother nature but there was always going to be plenty of other things to be done. Alison and Fi grabbed the litter pickers and tidied up the park, Sam and Abi grabbed the brooms and swept the yard, Liam and Marcus grabbed some rocks and placed them in a flower bed. Meanwhile the best dressed runner of the night Ed grabbed the leaf blower and created a blossom storm! Karen was thrilled with the rapid results saying it would have taken her volunteers so much longer to achieve the same results. Great work team! The task sat in the middle of a scenic 4km run along the riverside to and from the park with Douglas the dog putting the tail into tail runner. We'll be back at the river next week for some silt shifting so hope to see you all again, along with some new faces! https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/removing-silt-from-the-river-steps-to-help-rebuild-the-river-bank

Have a great bank holiday weekend in the meantime.