Last nights session was a fun and hard working session in the play area of Eastrop Park. Our primary focus being the clearing the main play area of tanbark and weeds. As you can see from a before photo this are was absolutely covered making it a lot less appealing and more likely for kids to get hurt.

Alongside this Samantha went back to our GoodGym roots and litter picked the whole space while Evelyn did an amazing job clearing the seating area of weeds.

As always we met at the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club at 6:15 before 5 of us walked to Eastrop Park with Yazid meeting us on the way.

When we arrived we met Sandra from Basingstoke & Deane Council who greeted us with all brand spanking new gardening equipment and more importantly fruit/water.

Congratulations to Madeline who got accepted for her new job!

Well done to Sammi for spotting the heron first and carrying two very heavy bin bags with me and Charli cheering her on.

The amazing Tazmin lead her first Taskforce session this week!

Tazmin has been a consistent GoodGymer all year and very kindly offered to step up while I'm away.

This session was some good old fashioned litter picking, down to the top of town, where way too much time was collecting the blue tags from Boz's veggie stall before heading towards Glebe Gardens.

Was great having Evelyn there assisting again, along with the always entertaining Maddie.

I missed you all this week, and wish you the best for next week then cant wait to see you all again the following week at Brookvale Community Centre.

We went out for a night of great litter picking, and I may have overestimated my internal compass and made a few small detours.

But it was great seeing Ruth again and having Madeline for her second session!

Okay warm might have been a stretch.. But it definitely wasn't as cold as previous weeks have been!

It was a really fun evening picking up a lot of litter and chatting the whole time. We found some pretty weird stuff such as, a torn up football in 15 different parts, a single glove, half a bottle of vodka and I got taught once again about different English sweets.

It was lovely meeting Madeline for the first time and thank you to Charli & Samantha meeting us partway through the session!

I think it was Tazmin's 4th session in a row while Evelyn showed off her fancy new litter picker!