A beautiful morning spent marshalling for Milton Country parkrun. A great atmosphere and brilliant way to get a daily dose of nature. What a stunning location! Mood well and truly uplifted.

To kick off WWF x GoodGym's Workout for Nature, we joined volunteers from Abbey People to support their Seeds of Hope project. The aim of the project is to create new habitats for wildlife and improve biodiversity along a key wildlife corridor in Cambridge. 🌱

Today's task was to plant bare root trees and shrubs into designated areas along the corridor, which will create an environment similar a natural woodland floor.

Before we even started, Dan was inspiring us by sharing interesting facts about the trees we were planting and why they were chosen. Work has already started in the area with some deadwood logs providing important habitat for insects and fungi. We found 'King Alfred's cakes' fungus and lots of holes indicating the nests of ground-nesting bees (we of course took time to get some snaps).

It was tiring work, digging in some hard ground, but we made good progress and had a lovely morning in the sunshine getting to hear more about the project as well as other farming and community garden projects in the area.

Thank you to Caitlin and Emma for making it happen. We look forward to seeing you next week for more digging! 💪

This weekend we headed over to the Cambridge Museums site to help set up and pack down the Cambridge Fesival's Family Weekend. We had a warm welcome from Jennie and the team who were busy getting everything organised for a fun weekend of workshops and activities.

It was brilliant to have new GoodGymer, Hope, join us for her first community misson 💪

In true GoodGym style, we cracked on with the heavy lifting, moving tables, chairs and sofas to help set up activity rooms and relaxation rooms.

There was a buzzing atmosphere and it was a great task for some strength training!

We had a very satisfying morning wrestling brambles. Two GoodGymers joined other volunteers to help clear the area next to Coldham's Brook, a chalk stream habitat. We made excellent progress cutting back some very overgrown bramble. With tea, biscuits and some enjoyable conversation, it was an great task. Thanks to Caitlin for welcoming us and we look forward to supporting another task soon.

Good gym Cambridge had a great time shoveling wood chippings into wheelbarrows and spreading on children's bike track this Saturday to improve safety and fun for the little ones 🤗

Despite the cold and the light hail(!), it was a great morning and we all certainly got our steps in!

The muddiest parkrun yet! Great morning supporting the team at Milton parkrun. Kudos to all the runners slipping and sliding round the course.