No heatwave stops us, we were out in full force yesterday after a last minute change had us painting and gardening at the Viables Community centre.

It was a great session with the main job being to revitalise a lot of planters, scrapping the paint off and giving it a fresh lick. They turned out looking amazing and some wonderful before and afters!

Samantha & Kelly (t her first session did an exceptional job weeding the gardens around the area managing to fill a who bag with weeds before composting it.

Sammi and Peter also did a greta job litter picking where the highlight was finding a rats skull which was graciously donated to Charli who loved and left it.

With 6 of us meeting at the Basingstoke Sports and Social Club Evelyn &Tazmin walked to Viables while none of Sammi, Yeun or Peter were willing to let the others down so we jogged over.

Wow! I'm blown away by how much can be achieved in just over an hour! Led by Charlotte and Suzi from the Dwelling place we cleared so much of the garden space preparing it for the next step in its transformation.

This meant cutting down and removing a trees and bushes, completely clearing a tonne of ivy, moving all the rocks and pavement slabs and creating a giant pile of cleared out garden waste.

I'm incredibly proud of the team for how much effort they put in and how much we achieved and also thankful to the Dwelling Place for how welcoming they were.

For this session we met as usual at the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club before we split into 2 groups with Sammi, Yazid jogging and Tazmin, Yeun & Evelyn walked to the Dwelling place where Charli & Samantha met us.

With the YMCA Basingstoke having to cancel our session with them we quickly changed to doing some litter picking instead.

It was a beautiful evening and was quite fun getting back to our roots of litter picking. Eastrop Park was as always pretty tidy, but we found if we went a bit off the path there was still plenty of litter to be collected.

It was lovely having Guy join for their first session and Yeun at their second sesison.

In the end we filled 3 bags of litter and left the space looking much nicer! As always we had a fun time chatting as we went

It's always a great time at the Brookvale Village Hall and last night was no different. The mission for the day was to paint the rundown notice board and outdoor posts green and to blow up some flowers for the upcoming Brookvale in Bloom campaign!

It was amazing having Jane & Yeun join us for their first sessions and special shout out to Yuen who missed us at the Social Club so jogged to meet us at the Hall.

Samantha came properly prepared with a full painting outfit and Charli was very impressive with the amount of pain they managed get covered with!

Thanks to Tazmin for leading the walking group back and Yazid for coming with the jogging group.

We followed all of this up with some greta food at the Grrek Street which is a part of the Basingstoke Sports & Social Club.

Thank you once again to Brookvale Village Hall for the hospitality with tea and snacks!