Last night was a biggie! An amazing 21 GoodGymers came along to get stuck in with clearing space around the saplings planted by trees for cities a couple of years ago!

Joining us this week were two new runners Samar and Jenny who both did an awesome job on what was quite a long run and heavy task. Go and give them a massive cheer!

Much needed maintenance

After a group warm up to get everything moving after lots of us had been sitting at work all day, we meandered towards to canal where we were shown the mammoth task that needed doing. Good job we had our biggest turnout since January! The task this week was facilitated by our good friends at The William Hobbayne Charity who kindly came down and gave us all the tools we needed to get it done. We were told how so much time, money and effort is put into planting new trees but unfortunately the same amount of resources are not put forward for the maintenance so it was great that we were able to step in and help.

The thorny issue and a sticky situation…

The saplings planted a couple of years ago couldn’t be seen and were getting lost under a mass of weeds, brambles and general overgrowth. Our job was to grab some tools, don some gloves and get to work tearing it all away. As we moved through the mini jungle we slowly started to undercover the tiny trees so that they will now have a good chance at continuing to grow!

40 minutes later we had a few stingy arms and legs but lots of happy faces! We packed up shop and headed back to base for a stretch before heading to the pub for the monthly social (ah that’s why numbers were so high!).

We’ll be back in the jungle in a couple of weeks to finish what we started so be sure to sign up again then!