On a hot, humid and sticky Sheffield eve we welcomed a good gang to The Showroom including a new runner who got a very warm welcome.

A big hello to Katy. Please do give her a follow and we hope we see you again soon Katy!

We headed to The 5 Wiers Walk (5WW) and more specifically the Salmon Pastures area of this lovely if a little at times unloved walking and cycling route on the Walk Wheel & Cycle Trust's National Cycle Network.

This section of the 5WW is often covered with dust and glass from the neighbouring recycling center and also has some issues with the invasive species Himalyan Balsam which is best removed before it starts to seed and spread in August onwards.

We got straight to it after a quick brief from Gerry, with some cutting back, some sweeping, some litter picking and some bagging up the off cuts.

Once we were done the path was looking so much better with it being clearer, wider and less covered in glass from the recycling center.

Thanks to all who made it down and contributed to the improvements.

See you next week and happy running! :)

On a muggy Sheffield eve the GG SHF team assembled at The Showroom Cinema for another group run.

It was great to welcome Shahram who joined us fresh from the Future Leaders session in Manchester and was full of enthusiasm on his first GG SHF run! We hope to see more of you Shahram.

After quick intros we headed off to meet Karen of Pitsmoor Pickers and get tooled up!

I think our numbers were a shock to Karen and we even had too many people for the pickers she had so some of us got gloved up and picked up the bigger bits.

Cans were collected for future weighing in and everything else was bagged up and/or moved to a nearby public bin ready for collection by the council after Karen had reported it to them.

Adrian even found a knife which was carefully moved and reported to Police by Karen and has now been collected by Police to be destroyed.

It was a good haul and a number of us headed into The Showroom for drinks and bites to eat before heading home.

A good job by all and thanks to everyone for coming out.

Hope to see you all on the next one. Happy running :)

We brought a real CAN do attitude to our task last night.

It was an uphill journey with some real unique city sites along the way!

On a hot and humid Sheffield eve some sensible GG folk decided to meet us at the task due to the hills, heat, injury or other and the rest of us slogged it up the hill from The Showroom to Arbourthorne primary school to meet Angela at this fantastic garden space used at the school.

The order of the eve was all about watering the trees and plants on site as everything was sooooo dry!

It was a great task with a very definitive aim of getting as much water onto the plants as possible in the time we had. We used watering cans and water harvesting tanks as well as hoses to get as much water into the plants as possible as they were looking very dry.

We were rewarded in our efforts by Angela who provided biscuits and water at the end before we headed back to The Showroom for a stretch off. Celine even went blackberry picking on her way home!

Until next week, happy running :)

It was fantastic to welcome new runner Sherif to the gg family, a welcome and really helpful addition.

The weather was fantastic last night, so it was a bit of shame we were heading inside, but as soon as we arrived Jess and the team at Common Thread brought the sunshine inside!

This week we were packing up clothes parcel for people in need, from families to funerals. It was great to know who the parcels we were putting together were going to, really bringing the charities reach and impact to life.

Some people got to general sorting of donations, whilst others had a printed sheet of the peoples requirements.

Refreshments were on had and as ever, were really appreciated.

It was great to see everyone and help out again with our friends at Common Thread.

Until next time, happy running! :)