We voted to leaf!

7 awesome do-gooders ran 3km to help clear leaves in Russell Square!

Firstly thanks to Sammy for pun credit! That has saved me 4 hours this morning trying to think of one! So cheers!

Wow great work yesterday everyone! What a lovely afternoon for a run. We met at Brock St and headed down to Russell Square dodging the people traffic on our way. We arrived and met with David one of the volunteers who firstly greeted us with bad news saying we have no bags and few rakes as the park keeper wandered off... but thankfully he returned just in time!

We handed out gloves, rakes, leaf grabbers and huuuuuge bags and walked up down to a section of the park that had been pre-prepared for us to make leaf collecting even easier!

Another volunteer group also arrived, not the most chatty of bunches but we tried nonetheless. Then we had some general members of the public getting involved too... isn't that a wonderful thing!

You might think Russell Square is managed by Camden Council and for the most part it is, but they rely heavily on volunteer groups for big tasks like this which go a long way into helping preserve the plants and wildlife in the park so what you did yesterday was a MASSIVE help.

After about 40 minutes, the place had been truly transformed. Yes there was the odd leaf still lying around but we had filled about 15 sacks full of leaves which is really amazing!!

We dragged them all to the side, had a group photo and watched as the park keeper cycled around with his rather sad and now broken bell trying to get people out of the park! We had a little jog back to the office, some light stretches and we were done!

Great work everyone! David was delighted with all the work you did, so huge thanks! See you next time!