A grave undertaking - clearing grass to create a wildlife meadow on Halloween

Seven Goodgymer's headed to a sunny Waterloo Park, to help the 'Friends' group with raking and removing grass, before they spread wildflower seed later this year.

The task involved raking, forking and aerating the soil to give the wildflower seed the best chance of thriving next year.

Due to the size of the area the design features spirals of wildflowers all across the field. We were then treated to some homemade scones and cake from the Friends of Waterloo Park and sat enjoying the sunshine and admiring all our work.

First to arrive at the allotment was Andrew shortly followed by Jonathan and Sarah. Whilst they waited for Jack, they helped open the very heavy skip roof followed by the exciting news that there was food and biscuits to reward them after their mission was completed.

Moving down to the allotment, the task was to clear as much large plastic and general waste as possible from two adjacent allotments to the skip ready for new tenants to arrive. Items included broken plastic tables, pots and many plastic wrappers and broken wood.

As the task got away, Jack arrived to give a much wanted helping hand just as the sun shone at its brightest. The heat made for hard work and before we knew it, time was up and a busy and productive day.

Our biggest group of the year - 19 GoodGymer's assembled at Oxfam store Magdalen Street.

Shout out's to Emma attending her first session, Maddy & Jack returning after a break, and Stephen who completed his 250th session!

In a scene similar to 60 Minute Makeover, Emily gave out the tasks for the evening (clean as much as possible) and the team spread out armed with hoovers, dusters, scrapers, tackling any surface that needed a clean. Even the toilet floors were given a thorough working over!

The floor downstairs was the main target, with dirt marks leaving a trail like foot prints - the big question was who was the culprit?

In a hour we had covered nearly every shelf, table and flooring, leaving the store looking transformed!

Well done team, it was a fantastic effort. Also best wishes to Jordan who moves north next month.

todays task was clearing/tidying up the frontage to Greengields Community centre, inckuding the gated front area to make way for artificial turf area. it was overgrown with weeds which we managed to clear , except for a couple if stumps which we were not able to dig out they were left to be takdn out later. The steps were weeded, all edges cleared and the paved frontage was de weeded. 3 full bags of debris was cleared and we left feeling proud