Another pleasant evening after a weekend of snow!

Meeting back at our regular spot outside DMU we split into two litter picking squads.

Mel, Dave, Jen and Lindsay headed into Bede Park to tackle the trash while Sharon, Michaela, Steve and Huw headed in the other direction along the river and into Rally Park collecting cans mainly it seemed!

Nine bags of trash and two bags of cans collected for Helipads for Hospitals.

Well done everyone.

HD

With snow flurrying across Leicestershire during the afternoon this task could have gone very wrong. Luckily for us the sun popped out just before we started and we were able to proceed as planned.

Nick, Ashley and Stu blasted some litter from the vaccine centre car park before joining us.

Mel, Lindsay, Tracey and Stu formed a litter picking squad heading up and down the waterway collecting cans and assorted trash.

Sharon, Jen, Steve, Huw, Dave, Ashley and Nick split into two groups and painted a wonderful 57m section of the sleepers black. 57 down, 243 to go on this section.

We finished up just as the snow returned, perfect timing!

Great work gang.

HD

Perfect weather greeted us for our return to non-essential outdoor community missions and what a great job we did! We welcomed Amardeep along on his first good deed, we hope you enjoyed it - judging by the fact we had to ask about three times to get you to stop picking litter we think you might have done!

Two groups of us helped make two city vaccination centres look absolutely spick and span, how temporarily they look so good remains to be seen but an amazing job done by all!

Prajapati Hall Site Manager Riyan escorted Jimmy, Martin, Nick (straight from a volunteering stint on the vaccination programme) and Stu to his site to ensure his car park was spotless ready to start vaccinating 1,200 cohort 1 patients with their second doses on Thursday.

Meanwhile Huw, in an unusual role for this week as a task owner, got Sharon, Elena, Dave, Mel and Amardeep to work at the Peepul Centre site.

The Peepul Centre approaches from the main car park are a particularly horrific litter hot-spot and tonight it looks as good as it has done since the vaccination programme started in January.

After some socially distanced pictures using our brand new extra-long litter pickers kindly donated by the Canal & River Trust to keep the required distance apart, we went our separate ways with the welcome news that we can return next week to staining the sleepers along the waterway.

Thanks to you all, a real impact made tonight, well done!

HD

One evening, two tasks!

A splendid night's work for GG Leicester tonight as ten of us tackled two identical tasks for two different organisations. We welcomed Tracey along for her first good deed and she joined Lindsay and Huw for a run/walk along the river after the task too - give her a cheer! We were also delighted to have Steve's daughter Pippa along from GG Lambeth - she's now visted TEN different GoodGym groups on her travels! Bravo!

With our group size limited to six we split into two groups of five to carry out some work for both the Canal & River Trust and Sustrans cutting back vegetation that was encroaching on the riverside paths and the National Cycle Network in the city.

Task 1 - Canal & River Trust

Sharon, Stu, Steve, Pippa and Huw headed off north along the river towards Rally Park, snipping back rogue overhanging greenery en route before arriving at the main obstruction - the footbridge over the river at the turn towards Frog Island. Such was the extent of the blockage we managed to fill half a dozen 100 litre bags in just a ten metre section clearing the way for walkers and cyclists to get across the bridge smoothly and safely. Steve and Huw also managed to nip over the bridge to tackle a few overhanging branches as a bonus.

Task 2 - Sustrans National Cycle Network

Mel, Michaela, Jen (sporting her brand new GoodGym Angel top!), Lindsay and Tracey headed over the road from DMU to carry out the same job on the cycle path leading to Bede Park. They did a cracking job too clearing so much green stuff it really did seem like the path felt so much more spacious as we ran down it on our post run trot.

Back at base we feared that plan A (loading all the bags into Huw's boot to take to the tip) might backfire by the sheer amount we had collected but it just about squeezed in perfectly.

Super work everyone, both of those routes are heavily used by walkers, runners and cyclists and hundreds of people every day will now no longer need to duck or stop when someone is coming in the other direction!

HD