We were a blaze of red helping the Friends of Danson Park this morning.

Some of us got a good workout shovelling wood chippings into barrows, wheeling them to the Woodland Path and raking them out to spruce up the trail.

Others flexed their muscles to move logs into a defined edging along the path. 🪵

And we also got busy with secateurs cutting back saplings and brambles to help the trees thrive. 🌳 🌿

There was plenty of chatting between ourselves and with the regular volunteers.

After some final fun trying to set up a group photo using the camera timer, we rounded off the task with tea, coffee and shortbread. What a nice treat!

Well done Team GoodGym!

With the dark nights now fully operational it always great to be in the warm and inside for our task.

Tonight it was our church clean up, our goal, a complete dust, brush and mop of the whole church including the church offices and the beautiful organ area (always my fav place)

It was awesome having Neil along after not seeing him in a while and a massive hi 5 to Martin and Caz for your help too, i know St. Michaels really appreciates your help.

Our next task here is in the 4th of December to help put up the tree, this is always a brilliant evening so hope to see you there 

The brilliant work continued last night at St. Michaels Church. The long range plan is to reclaim the path and hedges around the entire church. This evening we have managed to get one side looking ship shape.

I'd like to give a big shout to the ladies from St.Michaels who also get stuck in to the hard word and for last nights GG team Michelle, Caz, Luke and Martin, you are all awesome 🙌🏻

We've got another evening booked in to continue this project so come team get signed up, we'd live to see you.

Tonight the team were back at Danson Youth Centre. This mission was to get the car park looking spik and span. We started with a little pick with most of the litter hiding in the hedge rows it wasn’t easy to get hold of it, however with perseverance we won the battle.

The next step was the sweeping and clearing up the dry leaves which had packed themselves around the car park edges too. Myself and Luke grabbed the brushes and started sweeping the leaves into piles while Caz and Martin scooped up and bagged those bad boys.

It was also great seeing Nick for the last few minutes, that’s for coming along

The final result, an awesome looking car park 🙌🏻

Third Saturday of the month is our regularly session with the Friends of the Old English Gardens in Danson Park. Today we braved the rain for a two-part task. Team Roses set about digging up two deeply entrenched rose bushes, while Team Hedges got to work cutting back the box hedges around one of the circular flowerbeds. The rose bushes took some shifting from the sodden soil. We got one out but the other one will have have to wait until next time. The circle of hedging required less brute force and more precision so that, when we got round to where we started, the height matched. We got it just about right! Thank you to Judy and Nicky for having us. We'll see you again next month!

Sarah