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GoodGym x GRIT Studios Salford
🗓Tomorrow 6:00pm

📍Salford Central Train Station M3 5ET

Help out a grassroots creative group for an upcoming event

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Tue 7th Oct at 6:30pm

Special De-leaf-ery for Together Trust 🌿

Stockport Report written by Laura Boldison

Five GoodGym Stockport volunteers spent the evening delivering leaflets around Cheadle to help promote upcoming events run by the Together Trust charity.

The team worked efficiently to make sure as many local residents as possible heard about the great work the charity does.

It was lovely to welcome Meera back after a few months away and to introduce our newest and youngest recruit — 11-month-old Olive — who charmed everyone she met!

With cheerful chats, a bit of light exercise, and lots of community spirit, it was another feel-good evening of doing good together.

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Hazel Molleda

Tue 7th Oct at 9:38pm

A perfect mix - a little exercise, more catch ups, and extra good doing! Love it!

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Tue 28th Oct at 6:30pm

Plastic Shed - GoodGym x This Girl Can

Help out a plastic recycling group with upcoming projects

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Sun 5th Oct at 12:00pm

Prepping pallets at Parakeet Pathway

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Due to storm Amy, another last minute task arranged at Parakeet Pathway with Gaskell Garden Project (GGP). Too late to list beforehand.

Breaking down pallets, planting broad beans and garlic, general litter pick and tidy, plus lots of weeding of the beds. Added fresh concrete for keeping the benches to the ground, moved some of the benches to new spots, added more boards to the large planters. Used a circular saw to prepare firewood from unusable lengths of wood.

Only a few showers of rain but a good workout.

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Tue 14th Oct at 6:30pm

Plastic Shed

Help out a plastic recycling group with upcoming projects

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Sat 4th Oct at 8:30am

An Amy-able morning

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

With allotment tasks and other parkruns cancelled due to the high winds and rain from Storm Amy 🌧🌩🌪☔️, I went to my closest parkrun in Platt Fields Park (South Manchester) to help hand out finish tokens 🌳🦺

Over 500 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course with plenty of wind-assisted times.

Hands got cold but nothing a cup of tea at home couldn't solve.

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Mon 13th Oct at 6:15pm

Food bank run

Donation of essential items for a local food bank

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Mon 29th Sep at 6:15pm

Starter for 10

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Welcome to Jackson for his first GoodGym Manchester outing! Great to meet you and hope to see you again soon.

This evening, we met up in St Peter's Square and made a brisk walk towards Hulme to pick up any discarded waste and litter. We found plenty of bottles, cans, vapes, cartons, tissue, plus some discarded plug ends, wheel trims, food cartons, and coffee cups.

We collected 3 full bags on the city centre side of the fridge and an additional 7 on the side near Hulme Park, with a surprising number of budweiser cans making up a large chunk, making 10 refuse bags in total!

The bag locations were recorded and Keep Manchester Tidy were informed for them to be collected ASAP. Fingers crossed removing some of the litter will discourage others from dropping more rubbish 🗑 🚮

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Sun 28th Sep at 12:00pm

How much do you bench?

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Gaynor and Ben went along to help at Parakeet Pathway in Hulme, a site overseen by the Gaskell Garden Project.

As part of their regular Sunday volunteering session, Ben helped construct 2 picnic benches, making sure it was level, with parallel uprights, and secured the wooden planks for the seating and top. We also secured it to the ground (so it didn't go walkies...) using concrete screws and fastened with double bolts. Just needs treating but certainly ready to use for locals and passers by.

We both then took to weeding and clearing some of the beds, with lots of grass and weeds taking over. We used this as mulch for the fruit trees nearby.

There was some brief physical respite when planting lots of garlic, using straw to cover any loose soil.

Busy but productive session. Will post when they have another session soon.

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Jack

Mon 29th Sep at 1:18pm

great work!

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Sat 27th Sep at 1:00pm

September shearing

Trafford Report written by Ben Foster

Ran the 9ish km to help out Mrs L to clear her front garden. With the warm summer, the grass and weeds had taken over so needed a bit of GoodGym elbow grease to get it moved.

With a sturdy pair of gloves and a decent Flymo lawn mower, I managed to remove a lot of the long grass, remove a self seeded tree, and pull out any weeds that were starting to take root. 90 min of hard work certainly had the desired outcome, with the garden waste bin full to the brim.

Likely back again soon to help lop some branches from a tree at the back. More before & after pictures taken but too big to upload.

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Mon 29th Sep at 4:20pm

Fantastic job, Ben!!

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Sat 27th Sep at 8:30am

Hoarse from the course

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

409 runners ran or walked the 5 km course at event number 266 at Fletcher Moss. I was Run Director so just about managed to get enough volunteers, and did the 1st timers briefing, set up, main briefing, and results processing. I'm now slightly hoarse from the briefing and funnel managing.

Thank you to the 16 volunteers who enabled the event to go ahead. Juno was marshal on the course and found a massive stick 🌳

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