Gathered up lots of litter around the neighbourhood, including a large saw and a big mouldy holdall.

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!

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. 🐝 🐝 🐝

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!

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.

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!