James, Chloe and Kim were back at Cornerstone Patch in Hamworthy. Cornerstone had been donated possibly the biggest pile of wood chip ever seen! The Goodgymers were tasked with filling wheelbarrows with the wood chip and then spreading it along paths at the site especially around the wildlife corner.

Thanks to Cornerstone for having us again and we’ll hopefully be there again in September.

Emma, Sylvie, Harry and Kim joined together to deliver some leaflets in their area of Poole to help spread the word of Goodgym. It was a success of pounding the pavements, putting leaflets through local homes and some of the team took a leaflets home to spread the word with work colleagues.

Hopefully we’ll have found some new Goodgym members or have built some connections with the community looking for help with new missions.

It was a solo walk around the beautiful Upton Country Park searching for butterflies.

This was in aid of the Big Butterfly Count that occurs every summer to assess the health of the UKs native butterflies.

Unfortunately the cloudy weather must have been putting them off as no butterflies were spotted but it was still lovely to walk around the gardens.

Francis and Kim joined Trees of Wimborne once again to help manage the young trees that were planted 3 years ago.

The hardest part was spotting the little saplings in there plastic covers in the hedgerows that have grown around them since! Once spotted they chopped back the growth of brambles and other vegetation to give the trees more space to grow and the light they need.

Thank you to Trees of Wimborne for having us!

Mary and Kim returned to the Cornerstone Patch in Hamworthy, this time to plant tomato plants.

It was a scorching hot day so they took it slow with lots of watering of the plants.

It was great to see the garden so green and full of butterflies and bees in such an urban area.

Francis, James and Kim were clearing the overgrown paths at Hamworthy Park that have been making it particularly difficult for wheelchair users to enjoy the beautiful park.

They cleared many buckets of dirt and grass and Francis even used his ‘eco broom’ to make sure the paths were especially tidy!

We’ll be arranging to go back there over the rest of the summer to continue with more of the paths