Four GoodGymers headed out in their neighbourhoods for a breath of fresh air and to pick up litter. Viv and Angela were assisted by Flora the dog who enjoyed sniffing out hidden litter in bushes and catching the odd abandoned glove!A wooden tribal statue watched with interest from someones driveway. Carys enjoyed a luchtime screen break and collected a whole bag in Oldfield. Sarah tackled the Cookham litter, there was so much that she couldn't carry it all home!

It was an early start this morning, but the sun was out and what a lovely morning for shifting top soil! All Saints School football pitch needs a make-over, so Viv, Rachel and Sheila responded to the challenge. After a short delay while we struggled to unlock the gates to the playing field, Rachel came to the rescue and gave the key the required wiggle to enable it to work. We got a good workout aerating the ground, shovelling topsoil into barrows and raking it to cover the bare patches. We were joined by one family whose son attends the school for part of the time, and were grateful for the extra pairs of hands. We made good progress but there is plenty to do at tomorrow's session

8 Goodgymers joined Wild Maidenhead and Friends of Oaken Grove to move turf to form a border and to plant more bulbs and plants to rejuvenate the wild flower meadow.

A big welcome to Anna joining us for her first task.

Angela, Christine, Sheila and Viv helped out at All Saints C of E Junior School on a chilly morning. Our taskowner Sarah would like to create some wildflower meadows at the school and needed some help to realise her vision. Viv and Angela started by clearing a bed by the weather station. Meanwhile, Sarah, Christine and Sheila marked out the areas destined to become paths, so that we could then create the beds Just to complicate matters, there is some rubber matting buried under the grass which we wanted to avoid. We dug one triangular bed, removing all the plants but recovering as much soil as we could. Viv and Angela joined us to dig a second one, and we fitted in a further couple of small areas before we had to call it a day. Watch out for further sessions to continue the great work! Sarah was really pleased that we had such a productive session

Make Space for Life had lots of apple trees to prune at the Community Orchard, so they asked for some help from GoodGym. Sarah , Viv and Anne-Laure joined Fiona on North Town Moor. Together with other volunteers we had a quick lesson on pruning apple trees from Taskowner John, and were let loose on the trees. We snipped and lopped the branches, trying to maintain an open shape and cut back anything that was too thin to bear the weight of the fruit. A quick coffee break and re-fuelled by biscuits, we returned to our task. We all learned something and will have the confidence to try it out on our own trees in the future! John was grateful for our help and we hope to be invited back in the future