6 people picked a lotta litter around St Mary's!

And we emptied the 2 public bins into the dustbins that the council empty - as we noticed that they were completely full and people were stacking up litter around them. By lining them with heavy duty bags, we are hoping that they can get emptied much more easily going forward.

We were joined by local resident Martin (with his lovely lurcher Gladys) who litter picked a whole bag on his own. He wanted to know where the 'gym' in GoodGym is and was really supportive of the GoodGym philosophy when we shared it with him. It also went out on the Slough Anti-Litter WhatsApp group this morning - and now that we have learned about this, we have the opportunity to get the message out to them earlier and to work together more in the future.

The team talk was fun and fascinating (both whilst tidying up and also over water and biscuits in the church) - we learned that the library at The Curve has a theatre and film viewing area called 'The Venue' and has a massive diversity of events and shows to celebrate all of the cultural heritage of the people of Slough.And they are always looking for volunteers to support as ushers etc (no need for first aid training etc, as there is a front-of-house manager who coordinates all of the volunteer efforts).

And perhaps most rewarding of all - we were thanked by 3 different people who were hanging around ready to bed down for the night in the churchyard - which felt like a meaningful connection.

We went out and did another local litter pick. Litter picks are fun way of being outside whilst some necessary carework!

3 of our regular volunteers went to help May sort out Summer Clothing, they had plenty sunshine which meant plenty smiles all around.

Maya we like your outfit and the colour too.

There are still plenty clothes that need sorting so please look out for more dates posted shortly on our website.

We were back at St Mary’s Church on Church Street for our Monday #DoGoodGetFit task. We all had ‘active travel’ to get to the Church on time on a lovely cool Monday evening.

On arrival, Jean our task owner gave us access to the Church and asked us to do a few tidy up jobs that the Church desperately needed.

So we got to work pretty quickly with Jason taking the sweeping job (once he was happy with the broom!), Maya also went on sweeping duties then onto iron gate cleaning.

Devajani was already giving the iron work a good clean whilst Agni and Jean were all over the pulpit with Jean giving us her worldly advise.

I took some time out to sweep the altar and wipe down the pews with the rest of the team joining me once they’d finished their areas.

The areas looked so much fresher once we’d finished. Such a beautiful church and we were very happy to help give it a spring clean.

We look forward to returning in a few weeks time.

Next week we will be at the allotments on Stoke Road. Hope to see you there.

The park was looking very littered after a weekend of frolicking. We cleaned up what we could and the park looked & felt much better!
We separated plastic bottles into our red bin