9 young people enjoying the great outdoors improving their health on a dry morning. Jack on his 2nd week of his DOE bronze award

New Brooms please

A great morning task revisiting Mousehold Heath to cut down some broom off the slopes near the Britannia Road car park.

It’s important for some areas of the heath to have clear grassland for wildlife and to maintain the stunning views of the city the area offers.

12 GoodGymer's got through a lot of broom and deposited the cuttings further down the hill which will provide a habitat for other wildlife too.

A big welcome to Aardra and Deepak on their first GoodGym task and congratulations to Danni for reaching their 10th task!

382 participants & 33 volunteers made Catton Parkrun happen today, although cold it was a far better weather morning thank last weeks mud fest! We had cake, lots of cake today with two of Cattons Core team celebrating 50th birthdays and a cake stall run by 2 Catton regulars running the London Marathon and raising funds for their charities NARS & Little Lifts two local charities so good luck to them both.

Today was a great task, we visited Mr. M. Who we have visited before to continue working on clearing their garden, it had been a long break and Mr. M. had procured a ball of energy (Dog) since our last visit.

Missy was lot of fun and a wizard at standing on two legs.

Anyway... we also cleared a lot of brambles and moved a lot of applicances into a pile for collection in an an accessible point in the garden, when we started they were buried under the brambles.

On a drizzly Saturday morning six Goodgymers ran or cycled to help the local community Green Hearts group and the wonderful Common Lot gang at the Valpy Allotments.

These local groups are trying to transform a lot of the overgrown and tangled plots so they can be utilised.

We were set to work with rakes, wheelbarrow and loppers and in the space of an hour we had cleared brambles and helped organise the space. Getting our steps in whilst also running rubbish up to the skip.

Luckily the rain held off and as a reward we were treated to homemade ginger and rhubarb muffins in the beautiful Common Lot lodge and we also got to admire their lovely community garden.

This was a very fulfilling mission to take part in. Mrs G wanted some help using her phone and had some accidents recently, so wanted to make sure she could get help if she needed it.

We helped Mrs G make emergency calls to her friends from her phone and gave her some tips on other ways to navigate if she was confused at any point. She was very grateful and requested we return in the future to help with her laptop.