To Wardown Park for our monthly effort to fill as many volunteer roles as possible for our friends at Luton Wardown Parkrun. We were a big and vocal presence, setting up the course, marshalling (with extra cheers) scanning barcodes and helping to close down the event. Not an official volunteer role, but ‘goose-wrangling’ was also an essential task this week!

This weeks group run/walk/cycle took the 7 strong team to 61FC. The football club have been getting ready for the new season on the pitch and asked Goodgym Luton if we could help with some finishing touched to the outside of the clubhouse before the season starts this weekend. Black paint, red paint, blue paint and a little bit of white, whilst not quite a rainbow it was definitely a colourful evening.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the task and Richard and the team at 61 FC were grateful for our efforts. We look forward to going back soon. Great effort on this task team, well done. 👏 👌 👍🏻 🙌 💪

5 of Luton Goodgyms team got stuck in at this months Litterpick at People's park. Supporting the Friends group at the park the team contributed to collecting 12 bags of rubbish and some other bits and bobs. Well done team, great effort 👌 💪 🙂 👏 👍🏻

On a lovely warm summer evening as the sun settled down in the sky this band of Goodgymers made their way by biking running and walking to the Riverside Meadow beside New Bedford Road. Welcoming Chrisshane and Omayemi to their first Group Run. 👋🏻

Our mission for this evening was a familiar one, uproot all the Goldenrod. We've met this plant before which is invasive and trying to take over on this meadow, but it's back to test us again. It is noticeably thinner than in previous years, a good sign that we are winning, and there was a good mixture of native plants in the gaps we have cleared.

So we got stuck in and started pulling at the clumps. We made good progress and managed to clear about half of the field before our time was up. We'll be back soon to finish the job!