On a light and sunny April evening we were joined by an ever growing team of Goodgymmers to tackle some local litter. We were joined this week by new members Ray and Madeleine - who quickly got up to speed by collecting many ciggarettes and random plastic lumps.

Strolling through town gives great chance to get to know new members and discuss reasons for supporting Goodgym, we also got stopped for praise by passers by, which is always nice. Chat covered schools and parts of town, rare litter finds and running (I'm still going on about my Paris marathon).

We wrapped up our new route in the Abbey fields playground, where i somewhat bemoaned the lack of litter this time round, if only our town was more filthy. However, our large group would have made light work on any route, onto the foodbank next week!

A pleasant warm evening, though still a little deceptively chilly, bought 5 Goodgymmers together in town for a good old fashioned litter picking. In a familiar route we snapped up the usual gallery of cigarette butts, drinks bottles and tissues. There was also a plastic lump we declared as likely not Roman era, plus a metal rack Louise insisted on calling a weapon.

Much litter collected in all, plus some nice chat and much to look forward to in the coming months, thats what Tuesdays are all about!

Chilly evenings are here, so after meeting at the theatre for another Goodgym task we quickly set about gathering some trash to keep warm. Some chat about upcoming birthday parties, vaping and the weird logic of people throwing full cans of RedBull in the street, but a time well spent and some good done, as agreed by a passing pizza delivery lady.

Join us for a bunch of upcoming tasks in November!!

This evening we found a few surprising things that people had dumped, fly-tipped and tossed into the bushes around Abbey Fields. Along with the usual wrappers, bottles, dog poo in bags and take away cartons we cleared up an iron - but an armchair and a set of pots and pans were to big for our sacks unfortunately.

Five goodgymers headed out in the darkening twilight to make Colchester a bit cleaner. Five bags of rubbish collected including a very wet shoe!

Hoping our litterpicking efforts encourage a tidier population!

Well done goodgymers, our first session in our new community led format. It's a team effort, come join us!

Collected five bags of rubbish in total - helping the wildlife and green spaces to breathe a little. Lots of odd items, but plenty of the usual suspects. Spotted a few butterflies, a great tit and some ducks on the river.