It was definitely an autumnal park run this morning, with one of the HG members wearing her gloves to marshal.

There were 3 of us, Anne, Laura and Karen …situated at different points around the course.Despite the chill there was a good turn out of runners and as usual a great atmosphere.

This is a wonderful opportunity for children to start running, almost as soon as they can walk and such a fun volunteering role for us.

Our mission Owl Box Installation🦉 & Maintenance Of Existing Boxes (St John's Lye) Woking.

It was another Biodiversity task, so for me (Luan) I jumped into action this Saturday morning; our mission was sooo interesting and cool!

Meeting with first Wayne and then Kirsty (two of my most favourite positive and encouraging members) in the carpark everyone was in good spirits! Working with members of WEAct we had 3 Owl Boxes to replace and 1 that in the end was just inspected and maintained (loads of foliage was removed from it). Using our map of St John's Lye, see picture attached the boxes were placed strategically around the area.

The boxes were already made for us to put up, but we had to add or nail in a perch onto them first, the biggest challenge finding the right tree and then, it was a man's kind of job to drill the boxes into the trees up ladders. The girls helped by carrying kit around the location and clearing all nails from older boxes that could then be left to biodegrade.

So much fun!

Thanks Everyone :-)

Kirsty, who walked, and Anne, who ran, met at the gate of Knaphill Lower School. We were a bit confused as there was no one who could give us any information about the Forest School site we had agreed to help clearing up…

But Kirsty being an “old mum” 😉 of the school, guessed where we should go and bingo 🎉🎊 , we joined a couple of families also aiming at the Forest School.

Vikki, from the PTA, welcomed us and gave us a tour of the area. There were two main jobs to achieve this morning: clearing the pond and raking all the leaves from the site; the aim being for it to be ready for the children to start Forest School sessions soon.

Off we went, armed with rakes, gloves and big builder’s bags 🧤🧹🧺. Kirsty and I decided to concentrate on raking the leaves; helping with the pond involved jumping over a fence 🤸‍♀️, which, somehow, I did not fancy at all! The bags were promptly filled, and we deployed all our strengths to carry and empty them over to the waste area. We could have done with Wayne’s muscles 💪 this morning!

When more families came to the rescue, we decided to walk/run back to our respective homes. We might be asked to come again soon, as we were so good at it today! 😇

Will you help at junior parkrun tomorrow morning?

Happy running, walking or cycling to you all!

Junior Park Run

This morning 4 GG Members carried out various volunteering roles at junior park run, there were also some fantastic milestones:-

Congratulations to Katie who completed her 150th Goodgym good deed 🎉 who was going to celebrate afterwards with Phil with a Mc D's breakfast with an extra hash brown 😋

Wayne also carried out his 💯 junior park run volunteer role 😄

James was aslo present this morning helping out with everything 😇

In total there were 128 young runners who took part in the 2k run around Woking park with the fastest time being an amazing 07:27 👏🏻. There were also 57 PB's in total today, great running by everyone.

All Aboard Club 🚋

All Aboard Club were back after the summer break and this morning Wayne & Stephanie joined Richard and his fellow volunteers at Brookwood to help; set up the train track for the kids to enjoy ❤️

The first task was was put out 20 chairs around the hall for the parents to sit and watch the kids have fun, once this was done the fun began. This was Stephanie first time helping out at All Aboard and she got stuck in.

We all started at different corners of the hall and started to lay the track hoping that at some point we will all connect up. The great thing about this task is you can not do it wrong every time we do this the track looks different 🚂 and today it looked great with many twist and turns and plenty of bridges. 😄

Woking Junior Park Run

This morning Wayne carried out marshal duties at the junior park run. It was a lovely sunny morning ☀️ and what a turn out it was. One of the local schools did a park run takeover and it was great to see 😄

In total this morning there were 193 runners tackling the 2k course. The fastest time was an amazing 07:28 with 75 PB's fantastic running by everyone.