On a delicious Mon evening in Sheffield we headed across town and uphill to Somerset Park to meet with the local legend that is Karen from Pitsmoor pickers to help this group keep the area litter free and sparkling.

We met with Karen and four other pickers including a new born baby and got tooled up with pickers, hoops and bags and got straight to it.

Cans were collected separately as Karen takes these away to get recycled.

Karen embraced her arty side and painted some messages, encouraging park users to bin their rubbish.

Once done, bags were collated, labeled and reported ready for collection by the council.

Until next time, happy running! :)

It was a stormy looking night, but that doesn't stop goodgym from making an appearance.

We met the fantastic Fran from Heeley Community Garden on site with tools, ready to get stuck in.

With the spring and summer sun the garden was looking full of life, only perhaps a little too much of the wrong type of life with weeds overgrowing and taking over.

We got tooled up with gloves and spades and got to clearing one of the beds which was full of fly-tipping, weeds, rubble and litter, we even found a rotary washing line in there!

After a brief spell the bed was looking much clearer and ready for a new lease of life! Fran was mentioning that lessons had been learned from the last set of planting and that they would be going for trees rather than flowers this time as they are a lot easier to maintain.

We look forward to seeing these come through in good time.

Until next time, happy running :)

On a hot, muggy evening it was goodgym time again and this week we were surveying the cities fish pases to check that they are free from debris.

Keeping the fish pases free from debris is essential to allow for the fish to navigate the rivers to get to their prefered place to lay their eggs.

The passes we saw were all in good health with free flowing water and now even have QR stickers so that anyone passing the fish passes on the weirs can report of there are any obstructions.

Why not give it a go next time you are passing?

Nice straight forward one today, it only took us about an hour and a half to finish and the couple were really happy with the work we did for them. I don't like taking photos of missions so I've uploaded a photo of Elsie the cat instead.

Met up with Andy, then Simon. A briefing and discussion that the area we were supposed to clear up had been done already. So we all moved onto Nursery Street and we started clearing litter. Windy evening and loads of rubbish in corners and along pavements. Loads of cars parked and found soiled nappies, and other disgusting stuff. 4 of us managed to load at least 6 bags of litter. Andy brought a large flask of coffee and biscuits to share.

Well, well, well, on the HOTEST day of the year we thought why not have a task at the TOP of Sheffield..

Well it was worth it!

The lovely Angela met us on site and let us in and showed us the fantastic grounds of the school and all the hard work that has been going on there to make it such a beautiful space for the pupils and the community.

Once we had had a snack of the fresh cherries on the trees and had a cup of water and some homemade flapjack we got to the tasks at hand. This week we were understandably watering the plants in the poly tunnel and also spreading some wood chip around the younger trees to help them get established.

What a wonderful space this is and it was a pleasure being able to help with its ongoing development.

We can't wait until the next time!