2 Goodgymers took on the Leagrave Park litterpick. Rubbish was picked from the playing fields and along the river bank and it was nice to be out in the fantastic open space.

A team of six climbed the hill from town to The Chase, a grassland in development to become a biodiversity hotspot. To help it on it's way we were tasked with pulling up mugwort plants, a large woody herb that was becoming overly dominant, to make way for more delicate wild flowers.

After 45 minutes we had made a marvelous mound and headed back down the hill via a burst of situps, press-ups and burpees with sprint intervals in People's Park.

Four Goodgymmers got together with the Luton and Dunstable Conservation Volunteers and the Friends of Leagrave Park to have another go at recovering some grassland from encroaching scrub and making this corner of the park a more welcoming area for a stroll.

We got the bow saws going for an upper body workout on the crowded overgrown blackthorn trees, we got the legs working too by dragging all the branches out to the roadside. Adding on some litter picking and junk removal, we left this area in a much lighter, cleaner state than we found it and a brilliant transformation from the overgrown rubbish dump it used to be!

Five GoodGymers converged on People’s Park on a warm Saturday morning to take on the monthly organised litter pick. With consistent warm weather in recent weeks there was a significant amount of rubbish to shift, but the team wasted no time, along with other volunteers clearing the vast majority in only one hour!

We also had some special volunteers in attendance this weekend. The Pokharel family, whom were crowned Luton’s Climate Change Champions earlier in July! A big well done to everyone that attended (I believe it was one of the highest turn outs) for grafting in the warm August sun.