This week we returned to a wonderful community garden managed by Metal Liverpool; tucked away right by the railway tracks at Edge Hill station, its a real hidden gem!

The garden has become quite overgrown in recent years so our task was to cut back, weed and level a path. We managed to cut back a huge amount of foliage (see the pictures) as well as clearing space for planting beds and laying out some bark chips on the path.

After all the hard work the garden was much clearer and should be safer and more usable for the community. Good work everyone

Whether running 3k direct to the task return (Taf), walking 5k return (Ema) or 4k return from Hope Street (Bekah, Eimear and John) we all put in a good effort this evening helping the Greenhouse Project with their Forest School project.

Spades, hand, bins, wheelbarrow, trowels were all part of the arsenal used to turn the pathways into deep, natural walkways. Fair play to Taf who bagged her fifth task and its always nice to return to the Greenhouse Project who Goodgym have visited before, with a variety of tasks such as helping build their play area and wrapping Christmas presents.

Pat and Saba from the Greenhouse Project didn’t hold back in working with us to dig into the mound of mulch and help spread it along the walkways.

We struggled for an original pun tonight until Bekah came up with a quality suggestion. Well done all, its always good to catch up with the Greenhouse Project

Meeting again on Hope Street, this week we were thrilled to welcome Bekah for her first group run!

After a quick warm up, we headed off up the hill towards Kensington Fields Community Centre for some serious weeding!

When we arrived we were met by Ema and Tafwauli.

The task was to help prepare a community growing space to be used once more. The space had been used pre-covid but was in serious need of tlc. We set right too it digging out all sorts of grass/dandelions/nettles/mares tail and had soon rid the beds of weeds.

A quick slice of cake saw us on our way down the hill. (apologies that the strava is missing, but I forgot to turn it off once we were back)

There is still plenty to do, so I suspect we will be back again soon! I can't wait to see what they've done with the space when we return!

7 Goodgymers ran through the streets, winding uphill to meet the rest of the gang who helped by bringing litter picking supplies at the Liverpool Irish Centre. With Ema walking (4km) and Sallyann cycling (10k), there was plenty of miles accumulated. The Centre does so many good things for the local community and it was great to help tidy around the grounds for their upcoming sold out panto. Well done Issy and Joanna on trying your first group run, hopefully it will be the first of many. The group reached the venue in no time and with a sharp wind about set to grabbing bags and litter pickers. Having a chance to chat while litter picking made the time pass quickly and 19 bags of rubbish was beyond all expectations. Having some brioscaí ( biscuits – pronounced breeski) after picking up bruscar (rubbish – pronounced brushcar), everyone was fuelled to continue our various ways. Well done all, Clodagh was happy out and the place looked well after your work