We cooked up a delicious Aloo and aubergine curry, served with freshly made hot rotis, cooling yogurt, and creamy rice pudding. The pans were sizzling, the rotis were puffing, and the sink was full. After all the chopping, stirring, rolling, and washing, we all sat down together and shared an amazing, delicious meal.

A team from Goodgym Luton spent their Saturday morning supporting The Friends of Leagrave Park and ABCD-IN-LUTON with the regular monthly litterpick. There was quite a nice relaxed vibe as we all walked round gathering up plastic bottles, empty drinks cans and other bits of rubbish that had been discarded in the park. The highlight of the morning for a few of us was seeing the kingfisher that flashes by occasionally. 10 bags of rubbish collected today. Great effort team 👏 👍🏻

The final days of January and our last effort at getting empty tubs to various Greene King Pubs for their recycling and charity scheme. I can’t believe that we were still able to track down some empty tubs, but the good people of Luton and Dunstable seem to still be polishing off their Christmas goodies, including Duncan’s family who have at last finished the tub of Jacobs Crackers.

Ella’s netball team provided her with a boot full of tubs, that’s a lot of jumping around they will need to do to burn off all that chocolate. Pam took a stroll up to the Hungry Horse and created a Tub2Pub Jenga with Duncan’s Cracker tub. Gill found herself passing the Red Lion in Stevenage on her walk to the physiotherapist, so she ran back to her car to fetch the tub and deliver it. Charmaine and Martin pared up to deliver a tub of Roses to the Biscot Mill while Neil and Sheets went to The Anchor with their Heroes Tubs.

Hopefully we have now cleared up all the empty tubs from our friends and family and have made a fabulous contribution to the Greene King Macmillan/Recycling Scheme.

Well done to everyone who participated this year.

8 if Luton Goodgyms finest came out to support the Friends of Leagrave Park along with Kevin from ABCD-IN-LUTON for the first litterpickof 2025. The members from the local community made the numbers up to 14 attendees and as ever we found an eclectic mix of rubbish 🗑 in the hour and a half we were there. A bread basket, a tyre and the rear windscreen of a car to go with the 24 bags of rubbish we all collected, but for me the most interesting find was a bollard from a local car park. it was heavy but I managed to move it to a place it can be collected by the council and returned to its rightful place. Shockingly Omar found a knife which Kevin from ABCD-IN-LUTON has dealt with in the appropriate manner. Great effort as ever team. Well done 👏