Four Goodgymmers, Daryl, Roger, Lea and Keith joined six Bournemouth Ploggers for our first litterpick of 2026. Festive season over… litterpick season on! Plenty to find on the beach and around the chine. Lots of cuttlefish bones, causing confusion… “oh right: that’s not litter, oh but that white bit there is!” And as to meeting point: a bit more confusion, top/bottom of the steps?! We all found each other in the end and then spread out again to pick up LITTER! Lea was nurdling on the beach; Nick was scouring the parking area, Angie and Chris were promenading, Keith and Daryl found a bag full of clothes, not wearable anymore. But Roger, Katherine and Gemma won “the weirdest find” award x2 even. A punchbag hung up out of view in the trees. The other find: well, something to inform the police about… Anyway, good job done by everyone with lots of litter picked up and binned. With the cuttle confusion there are probably (read: most likely) quite a few bits of cuttlefish bones in the bin. Thanks a bunch, everyone.

Four Goodgymer's meet in Westbourne to do a litter pick.It was nice to see Paul T again who has just come back from his travels ,but he did mention that in the new year He's off on his travels again this time six weeks touring Asia he certainly has the taste for traveling.We started round Tesco Express which was fairly clean before moving on down to the play park which was was also fairly clean we decided to move on to the car parks which was a different story. In the end we managed to fill Four bags of rubbish so all in all it was a very good effort.Please check out the web site as there is a lot of Tasks leading up to Christmas.

Seven Goodgymers meet at Muscliffe Park to help the Parks Foundation set up for the Holi event they helped put on for the Hindu community put on to bring every one together to celebrate Holi and all the colour's . We started by helping to put up gazebos and fencing round the DJ 's gazebo.A group went off to find some sticks so some ribbons could be tied to them for the children could wave them, another group went off to pick some petals to be placed in windows cut out of card we did so much in helping to get this event up and running. My what an event it was full of colour dancing and lovely food.The parks foundation could not thank us enough for all our help.

The weather was really bad Daryl still managed to meet up with Karen from the Parks Foundation.The ground had already been prepared for planting the bushes which was a mix of Hawthorne which are good for wildlife we soon had the bushes planted and with wood chips scattered round we cleared up and said our goodbyes and headed home to get warm.

Daryl, Janet and new Goodgymer Sylvie met at Pelham Park to help Steve and Lisa from the Parks Foundation to build a compost bin. First Daryl and Janet created a rectangle from planks of wood. This would form the perimeter of the compost bins. Meanwhile the others flattened the area of ground and then we started to knock the posts into the ground. This was fun as we got to wear a hard hat and use our muscles!! Finally, after a much-needed cup of tea on a very nippy winter morning, we drilled all the planks along the sides. Now it’s all ready to make compost! Hope to see Sylvie again at another task soon.

It was a task of meeting old friends,Emma,Milly,Sophie who have just finished at Uni it's nice to see you again plus Charlotte Caprice's sister who is over from Tenerife and enjoys coming on a Goodgym .We all meet in Meyrick park for a litter pick ,as there was a concert in the park over the weekend.We soon got to work gathering up the litter,Caprice found a pair of Jeans,Charlotte found a grill from a B Q not to be out done Emma, Milly,and Sophie found not One but Six Vapes,plus various feathers in all different colours. In the Forty five Minutes we filled Three rubbish sacks all in a short space of time.I hope to see you all on the next task.