Wednesday 29th January
Report written by David Mansfield
We had a big bunch of people out for the last Group Run of January, an excellent boost to our January total!
It was a special evening as we were to be joined by ITV news, filming us for an upcoming piece on the 6o'clock news! 🎥
First we had to get to the task, so Gill set off early with the walking group to make their way up the hill to the Luton General Cemetery.
Meanwhile the rest of us welcomed Joe to the team 👋 as he joined his first session, got ourselves warmed up and ran in pursuit of the walkers.
Our task at the cemetery was to sow yellow rattle seeds into the grassy banks, which involved roughing up the grass with rakes to expose some soil and scattering the seeds in. But of course with the camera rolling things didn't proceed quite as usual!
We did a good bit of shuttle running up and down to get nice footage and were filmed hard at work with rakes and brooms in the gloom and torchlight. While a few went off to be interviewed under a streetlight the rest of us got the job done by scattering the seeds, trampling them in and finishing up the sweeping job on the path.
Task and interviews all done the last job was being filmed running out from the cemetery gates as we made our way back down the hill into
Luton
Bringing people together and providing a hot meal