Movers and rakers

33 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Leanne
Ed Woollard
Stefan Durkin
Nicola Gover
John Bourton
Christine Cockett
Daniel Benwell
Jenna Drury
Paul Kelly
Mitch
Vicky Bushell
Pete
Michael Leadbetter
Charlotte Jones
Laura Barrett
Cara Organ
David Barrett
George W
Neil Bushell
Matt Lunn
Becca Maude
Sanjay Dharmavasan
Kirsty Payne
Abel Tadokera
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York

Monday 14th September

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York runner

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Ed Woollard
Ed Woollard

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Stefan Durkin
Stefan Durkin

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John Bourton
John Bourton

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York runner

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Vicky Bushell
Vicky Bushell

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We started the evening with what was supposed to be a quick and fun beanbag name, but turns out it works better with well behaved children than goodgym!

We celebrated Matt's Great North run and other achievements before splitting into two groups- a faster group with Ed to Clarence Street Gardens and a steady pace plus walking group with Vicky to the Groves.

At the Groves- we were met by Tracy plus a lady from York TV. The group split and headed off to do various tasks- hanging lights in trees, shifting slabs, weeding a courtyard, moving soil and raking piles of earth. Whilst all this was going on John kindly did the interview for tv.

In Ed's group

The Clarence Garden crew arrived and quickly continued the work that we'd started a few weeks ago. Mostly filling sacks full of the wildflower cuttings, shifting them over to the skips and then tipping them out.

The skips quickly filled up so Michael and Ed, in the absence of our usual bin dwellers, got stuck in and trampled down the cuttings so we could continue to pile the loads on top.

With time running out and the skips being fit to burst, we finished off by filling up the remaining tonne sacks and making a quick dash back across the gardens before leaving them next to the skips with just enough time to get creative for our team photo

We then all reconvened at the art gallery for a bean bag race with the new teeny tiny beanbags and hoops, posed as statues, then headed back to base.

Another successful night!


This task supported
The Groves Association/Door 84/High Street renovation
7 old wooden planters along Lowther Street need breaking down, compost to be placed in new planters

The project is part of a fund provided by the combined authority to improve the Groves highstreet. This not only includes replacing planters but adding festoon lighting, bunting, creating community events and further investigating the history of the area from information from residents

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