Rake Progress

After another Bank Holiday Monday, we moved our session to Wednesday again. We headed back to English Martyrs School where we are meet the head teacher, Helen.

Thank you to my team tonight - It was great to see Ryan and Sarah after their Worthing 10k at the weekend. It was lovely to welcome back Megan after some very busy weeks of work for her. Thank you also to John and El who had both marshalled at the RUN Fest on Sunday.

Completing this evening's team was Ricky and Roxy along with puppy Mali in a cat carrier 😻😅.

Helen asked us to continue with the clearing of the large beds that we had started last week. The school are planning to plant a butterfly garden and we are more than happy to assist with this :)

Although the progress didn't look so dramatic this week we worked equally as hard. Thank goodness we had John's electric saw that he was able to cut through the stubborn tree roots. We hope we haven't broken it !

As well as the sawing there was a lot of brute digging activity going by Ryan,Ricky and Megan, together with some very fine raking by Sarah and El. Roxy was got right down to the task pulling out roots and weeding the area she was working on too. . I was in charge of getting the debris to the compost heap. With the help of John's gauntlet gloves this definitely pushed my step count up for the day!

Another very worthwhile and impactful task ! Thank you all and see you all next week.

Have a lovely weekend in the warm weather.

Julia xx

The day dawned with sunshine for the annual RUN Fest event. What a relief after last year's awful weather!

The fabulous 5 of us worked our socks off all morning welcoming over 2500 runners back after either their half marathon, 10k or famly mile.

Many thanks to Belinda, Anne, El and John who, after setting up, were all on the tee shirt tables. Meanwhile, I was giving out boxes of Joint Ace vitamins to the runners as they came around the finishers funnel. El and Anne has displayed their GoodGym Tee shirts on the finish line whilst holding the winners ribbon which was a really nice honour for us all.

Congratulations to the GoodGym runners too - Daisy, Paul ( and John) and Sue W did the half marathon and Sue Acaster, Sarah, Ryan and Craig the 10k .

Great work all round team:)