Its always nice doing a Walk Together session, especially when the weather is good and going past some gorgeous areas! Just check out some of those pictures!

Was amazing having 8 people at the session with Yazid at their first session and getting to welcome Lindsay & Sammi back for their first sessions in a while.

When walking through Crabtree Plantation Charli, Yazid and myself may have got a little distracted by the playground, where we all managed to get ourselves tangled up.

Make sure to check out the other Rambler Run sessions in the area here https://www.bvaction.org.uk/wellbeingwalks

We joined with the Walk N Talk team for their normal Monday afternoon walk from the War Memorial Park.

It was great, so many nice people and and great conversations all followed by a coffee at the Park Social.

These walks happen every week so please check them out here https://walkntalk4mentalhealth.org/walk-locations/

Photo will be updated when we receive it

Last nights session at the Rucstall Community Centre was great, Evelyn, Tazmin & I met at the Social Club before walking to the Community Centre where Samantha & Charli met us.

The mission for the day was to clear the back patio of weeds, blackberrys and leaves to make it a usable space. We managed to smash this job in less than an hour making a huge difference to the space!

So on the way back we decided to do some litter picking through War Memorial Park, and then had a well earned dinner and drinks from the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club.

Wow! That was an incredible session at the YMCA in Basingstoke. Tazmin, Charli, Samantha & I went to the YMCA in Basingstoke to assist with some gardning.

The YMCA provides affordable living for 80 young people, however as we learned last night it provides so much more than that. The sense of community and belonging was immediately obvious with 20 residents having already started gardening before we arrived with the vibes high.

After a quick introduction and safety conversation we got into the gardening. And wow did we achieve alot! So many branches were cut, the whole back of the space was cleared, litter was picked and a pathway cleared.

Then the best bit of all, LASAGNA was provided to the residents and our volunteers which was delicous and a nice way to meet more people.

We can't wait to be back here on the 6th of May for our next session.

(pictures to be added later)

We had a lot of fun constructing two outdoor benches/storage boxes at the Brookvale Village Hall.

These benches had been donated back in November last year after sitting in a shed for 4 years due to being quite difficult to construct.

We learned the truth of this as the first bench took us 1 hour and 15 minutes to construct, this time was spent using brute force, working out the instructions made it impossible to complete and some slight arguing over which was was forwards.

But following the lead of Tazmin and Evelyn with Charli & myself happily doing what we were told we were eventually able to complete the first one.

Then as if to make up for this we constructed the second in record time, clocking in at just over 12 minutes from start to finish.

We also couldn't have done all of this without the help of Marian from the Brookvale Village Hall who helped the construction and made us very welcome!

All in all it was a lot of fun, very rewarding and we can't wait to be back again.

We joined with the Ramblers for a walking session this week, the weather was exceptional and really clear.

It was great having Samantha & Tazmin join us at the Social Club and then Charli meet us along the way.

It was a really nice route through the War Memorial Park, around Black Dam and throug a bit of Crabtree Plantation where we saw some very cute rabbits!

When it gets a touch lighter we can extend this further into Crabtree