Peter

Manchester

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Manchester

Gorse Hill Studios Green Rooms
🗓Monday 9th June 4:30pm

📍Gorse Hill Studios, Cavendish Rd M32 0PS

Empower and challenge young people through creativity

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Peter went on a group run

Mon 2nd Jun at 6:15pm

Put a plog in it

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Peter and Ben met up for a light jog and litter pick in Manchester.

After meeting outside the Central Library in St Peter's Square, we made the run to Hulme park. The park itself was thankfully spotless, but the surrounding area and places near the road and footbridge had seen a build up of litter and discarded waste. We collected 7 full bags in total plus other large items consisting of:

  • Pillows
  • Shoes
  • Lots of drinks bottles and cans
  • Car bumper
  • Piping
  • Cones
  • Road signs
  • Lamp post covers

After clearing the area, we made the run down to Barrack park (aka St George's park) that again, was generally tidy near the play area and football pitches (where a man decided to have a swing at golf...) Around the outskirts, however, we found more debris mostly consisting of food & drink packaging. We did also find some large mushrooms although likely not edible.

After placing the rubbish bags in easy to collect places, we took pictures and noted the What3Words location to pass on to Keep MCR Tidy to ensure collection this week.

After a short jog back, we enjoyed a swift pint at Wetherspoons to chat about holidays, GoodGym Shindig, moving house, and the state of modern football. Cracking way to spend a Monday evening.

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Peter
Peter signed up to a group run.

Mon 2nd Jun at 6:15pm

Plog on and social

Remove litter and improve the local environment

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Peter
Peter signed up to a community mission.

Mon 9th Jun at 4:30pm

Gorse Hill Studios Green Rooms

Empower and challenge young people through creativity

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Peter
Peter went on a group run

Mon 7th Apr at 6:00pm

Scrubbing in the sun

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Congrats to Stefanie for reaching 10 good deeds with GG MCR!!

This evening, we met in Salford to give GRIT Studios a helping hand with their new site. Peter and Ben met by Salford Central train station, currently under refurbishment, to make the ~2.5 km jog to the site, with Stefanie meeting us there by bike.

The GRIT Studios site in Salford has come on leaps and bounds since we were last there scraping paint from the windows. The space is now 85% occupied with artists with the windows decorated with the common room looking much more homely with less rubble and exposed brickwork on show. They are hoping to fill the remaining space this week with more public workshops and events in the next month or so, so keep an eye out! Here's hoping to some planters and maybe even a bench to make it a bit more welcoming too.

We were tasked with cleaning the external tiled walls that stuck out like a sore thumb after the rest of the building had received its makeover. With an array of implements including sponges, scourers, metal scourers, brushes, brooms, plus different types of cleaning pads, we donned marigolds and grabbed some buckets of mildly soapy water to give the walls a good clean.

Some marks and stains were easier to clean than others but bit by bit, we managed to remove quite a lot of muck, dirt, and grit from the tiles and windows. Doing this in full view of people using the treadmills in PureGym was something of an experience, with some passers by showing an interest into what was going on. After several changes of water and stepladders to help reach the high up places, we completed the task and cleared up any last marks before heading home by bike or on foot.

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Peter
Peter signed up to a group run.

Mon 7th Apr at 6:00pm

GRIT Salford tile washing

Helping out a local CIC/community arts group

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Peter
Peter went on a community mission

Sun 6th Apr at 11:00am

Primed for painting

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

What a wonderful weekend of weather to get out in the fresh air!

Peter, Jordan, and Ben came out to help The Bee Sanctuary on the southern tip of Highfield Country Park in Levenshulme for their regular Sunday volunteering session.

With our now apparently renowned expertise in painting, we were tasked with preparing and priming a few areas to tidy up the volunteer shed and the entrance gate. Jordan and Ben took turns climbing the ladder to paint a border on the volunteer shed, a new installation for the group. The volunteer shed was installed with a compostable toilet and used to store their tools and, important for this session, their paint. The roof was also a "living roof" with vegetation on top too. Between us, we managed to apply primer to the full circumference.

Peter on the other hand was tasked with chopping back some brambles near the entrance and scraping away the paint from the metal bars. There always seemed to be more paint to scrape off! Once ready, all three of us applied zinc-based primer to the metal railings once clean and dry and managed to cover a decent section, with the paint pot nearly empty once we had finished for the day.

In between painting and scraping, we took a full part in the tea/coffee break with biscuits and Sheila, the lead volunteer for the group, gave us a grand tour of the Bee Sanctuary site. Covering several wildflower meadows, three ponds, plus plenty of dead hedges and hedge boundaries, there really has been a huge amount of work over the years to clear the mono-culture of brambles with a more biodiverse area of grasses, flowers, and wildlife. There was also a quiet "Forget-me-not" area for remembering those who had passed for local people.

We will certainly be back soon to help out and hopefully finish the painting we had started. It was also great to meet the other volunteers and Loki who did his best to help out in between chasing sticks.

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Peter
Peter signed up to a community mission.

Sun 6th Apr at 11:00am

Bee Sanctuary volunteering session

Help enhance the local habitat and environment for wildlife

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Peter
Peter completed 15 good deeds with GoodGym. 😎

Sunday 2nd March

Finding your feet

Finding your feet

Peter completed 15 good deeds with GoodGym.

Peter has completed their 15th good deed with GoodGym

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