Save the Bees, Plant more Trees, Clean the Seas
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Colchester
📍Bandstand, Colchester Castle Park CO1 1YH
Save the bumblebees
Sat 22nd Mar at 5:20pm
Colchester Report written by Helen
Gathered up lots of litter around the neighbourhood, including a large saw and a big mouldy holdall.
Sat 15th Mar at 9:00am
Colchester Report written by Helen
Persuaded two friends who are new to parkrun to give volunteering a go. We cheered and supported all the runners and walkers, and they enjoyed it so much, they want to do it again!
Sun 2nd Mar at 11:30am
Colchester Report written by Helen
Three goodgymers met up in Castle Park to count bumblebees for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust's citizen science project. Bumblebees start emerging from hibernation around now, so we weren't expecting to see very much, especially as there isn't much in bloom yet, but much to our surprise, there were busy bumblebees in several sections of the route! We identified some queen buff-tailed bees, a few common carders, and even some worker white tails, which we will be recording on the BBCT website later. Congratulations to Luke on his first goodgym good deed, and for spotting so many bees. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tue 18th Feb at 6:30pm
Colchester Report written by Helen
Three litter picking goodgym ninjas swept along Cowdray avenue hunting out litter this evening. The usual suspects - food wrappers, macdonalds cups and drinks cans were bagged up and left for collection by the council. Well done everyone!
Sun 9th Feb at 8:40am
Colchester Report written by Louise (She/her)
On a chilly damp morning 7 GoodGymers turned up to cheer on, direct and keep safe some enthusiastic young runners. The core team were very grateful for our support as it made their job much easier in filling all the positions.
Tuesday 4th February
Helen said they'd do it and they weren't lying. They've hit their target for the January Challenge 2025
It was never in doubt. Helen committed to the January Challenge 2025, and they only went and did it.
Thu 30th Jan at 12:00pm
Colchester Report written by Helen
As many of our good deeds as Goodgymers have involved litter picking in and around the city, we were invited, along with a number of other fellow community volunteers to a 'meet and greet' with the Mayor at the town hall. Scotty, co-ordinator of the council's litter warriors initiative, organised this recognition and celebration event to say thank you, and to facilitate discussion about keeping the city looking beautiful. There were lots of great discussions about how best to keep litter under control. We also spoke with several councillors and council staff about wider environmental issues, and of course promoted Goodgym wherever possible!
Tue 18th Feb at 6:30pm
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