5 Woking GoodGymers, Agathe, Anne, Julie, Melanie and Rebecca, made the most of the warm and light evenings while they are still around, to do a littler picking run.

It was a great opportunity to catch up as a couple of us have not completed a mission for a while. We also explored a new route some of us had not been to before while picking up litter next to a stream.

We cleared up the usual crisp packets, vapes and drinks cans but also a sock!

Plogging is meant to be one of the least favourite GoodGym tasks, but here at Woking we love it. It makes our community a better place, prevents more litter being dropped, shows GoodGym doing tangible good in public and a good chance to have a chat. It was nice to be thanked by people walking past.

If you could not join us this time, we might see you next Wednesday? In the meantime, have a great running week.

Julie and Nadia set off from Woking Leisure Centre for an evening mission with a purpose. 🏃‍♀️💪 We ran over to St. Mark’s community fridge in Westfield, where Reverend Rachel welcomed us with a smile. 😊🙏

Once inside, we got to work: clearing out old stock 🗑️, cleaning shelves 🧽, tackling cobwebs 🕸️, and mopping the floors 🧹 until everything was spotless. ✨ We wanted to leave the fridge in better shape than we found it and we were proud of the result. 💚

After tidying up, we ran back via the Hoe Stream under the stars 🌙⭐, feeling energized and grateful. Mission complete: less waste, more taste, and a community that’s been served. 🤝🍎

Opening Of The Nature Garden

After months of hard work today was the grand opening of the Knaphill School Nature Garden 😃

Goodgym Woking have been helping Vicki & Mark over the last few months getting what was a waste land at the back of the school into a educational nature garden for the kids of Knaphill Lower School. After months of cutting back brambles to making TP’s, painting fixing the once tired and broken trim trail through the cold wet winter months and even through the recent heatwave we had done it.

This morning Wayne, Julie & Katieheaded to the school to meet Vicki & Mark & Victoria who helped with the designed of the garden as well as the headteacher along with a special guest to officially open the area 🌿

The weather did not seem to get the memo 🌧️. But that did not stop special guest Charlotte Hawkins from GMB to come.

Charlotte arrived about 9am and Vicki introduced the whole team and even mentioned some of our team who unfortunately could not make this morning

Brollys were up ☔️ and a little walk around the garden showing all the different play zone. Charlotte was very impressed by the bird Boxes 🐦‍⬛ that were done by the Goodgym team, Ola’s box was picked out 😃

Charlotte was also keen on hearing more about Goodgym and was really impressed and was going to get her husband to sign up to a local session 🤣

As the weather got worse we headed into the school for a warm beverage and chat.

Hopefully as the weather gets better the kids can get out and enjoy the play area.

Charlotte then said her goodbyes and headed off.

The finishing posts are in sight as the finishing touches and final tidy up got done. It was lovely to see Katie who did a great job weeding the brambles out of the wild flower area and the herb beds, and Stephanie who battled with the ivy and more brambles trying to reclaim the bird watching area. A lot of raking up dead leaves and a few more plants in place means that we're nearly ready for the big opening on 8th June. It's been a long journey and i hear that the children are getting very excited about the new area as they watch it come together.

Knaphill Lower School Nature Garden

This morning Wayne, Kirsty, & Julie met at the Knaphill lower school nature garden to finish off the last few tasks before the grand opening in a few week ☀️

The weather was amazing 😎. We were as always met by Vicki & Mark. Wayne first task was to get the whose pipe working as there were issues with the connections 🤔. After 10 mins of re-configuration we had water 💦.

Once the hose pipe issue had been rectified Wayne onto to the bug hotel 🐞🐛 to fix and attached the the fence around the hotel 🐜

Kirsty was tasked with painting the seated area 👩🏻‍🎨.

Julie was in charge of the positioning of the plants that had been donated to the school as well as clearing some logs. 🪴

We have one more visit to finish off which is next weekend before the grand opening 😄