Another glorious morning at the Tiny Forest. Alastair strimmed the edge path. Becca & Claire pulled blanket weed from the pond. Charlotte & Becca refreshed it with 58 pints of the finest Holgate tap water. The entire pile of woodchip was moved & the edge & entrance paths were completed. Plenty of damselflies and many varieties of butterfly (including painted ladies, small tortoiseshell & meadow brown) flying amongst the wildflowers kept us company. Thankyou all for a very beneficial but lovely relaxing morning. The Tiny Forest is not so little now and is looking very verdant.

👕 7 lovely GoodGymmers came to help at the clothes swap this month. Some of us came straight from parkrun, for our second volunteering stint of the day. Some came out of purely altruistic ambitions, answering the pleas that the clothes swap were short of their volunteers today. (Some may have had an additional alterior motive for some this month, in looking for an outfit suitable for a wedding (parkrun), lurking around the sparkly rail.) Success was had in both senses - we did lots of helping and outfits were found.

🍰 Vicky had both her work and GoodGym hats on today, selling some (delicious) cake to raise money for York Carers Trust.

⏰ The hour passed quickly and it was soon time to head off, safe in the knowledge that we've hopefully saved some clothes from landfill.

👏 Thank you everyone!

We make very quick work setting up the clothes swap then spent equally as long discussing dating apps and serial killers.

We'll be back in the morning to help with the hoards if folk looking for their saturday morning swap shop

Just the two of us setting up the book sale at Tang Hall Library this time, and slightly earlier in the day than usual. What a hive of activity! Great to lend a hand setting up this regular event to raise money for this community hub.

despite Penny's absence =a common threat to any academic (broken stapler) a motivated crew assembled which included a newbie & as one we set to work complicated by explaining the arcane & highly ritualised procedure = (in the original Latin) what chair goes where ex machina

We had a great turn out for the Southbanks Community Garden! Nada was in training as a Future Leader for Goodgym, the wonderful Hannah was back and we even welcomed a new Goodgymer, Kirsty!