It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon for a spot of benchmarking; a large scale city-wide project to create a fully updated resource showing the locations of 'age-friendly' benches (i.e. have arms and a back).

We met at Rowntree Park today and our mission was to complete benchmarking for a lot of the city parks which are locked up in the evenings.

Carl was chief map coordinator and everytime we do this task (this is the third one), there's a new work around to make it more efficient and organised.

Simon is a local orienteer and was looking forward to using his navigational skills to do some good. He and John completed the Westbank Park section and not only came back with all the bench data but with map corrections in general!

We'll have a huge evening benchmarking session on the evening of Wednesday 22nd to complete sections in the north of the city, so come and get invovled with the next round.