The long hot summer continues which is making life hard for trees and plants in parks all around the city, none more so than Fort Royal. All the young trees need a good drink at least once a week at the moment so GoodGym were brought in to get the wet stuff to where it's needed. What we lacked in numbers we made up for with enthusiasm as Natalie and Marcus pushed barrows full of water containers all over the park to be emptied on to the grateful trees. The most important recipient being a relation of the famous liberty oak that was visited by Thomas Jefferson. It wasn't just the trees that needed a drink so Karen from Fort Royal Rangers kept us hydrated too before thanking us for a job well done. We'll back for more in a few weeks unless we get some rain.

History was made once again on the famous Fort Royal Hill when the very first GoodGym Worcester session arrived at the park to help out Karen, one of the Environmental Rangers . The original job of watering trees had already been kindly completed by mother nature but there was always going to be plenty of other things to be done. Alison and Fi grabbed the litter pickers and tidied up the park, Sam and Abi grabbed the brooms and swept the yard, Liam and Marcus grabbed some rocks and placed them in a flower bed. Meanwhile the best dressed runner of the night Ed grabbed the leaf blower and created a blossom storm! Karen was thrilled with the rapid results saying it would have taken her volunteers so much longer to achieve the same results. Great work team! The task sat in the middle of a scenic 4km run along the riverside to and from the park with Douglas the dog putting the tail into tail runner. We'll be back at the river next week for some silt shifting so hope to see you all again, along with some new faces! https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/removing-silt-from-the-river-steps-to-help-rebuild-the-river-bank

Have a great bank holiday weekend in the meantime.