This morning Adam, Katie and Phil made their way to Woking Park to volunteer with Junior Park Run.

The sun was shining and this meant a great turn out of children and their parents who either ran with them or cheered them on around the course.

In total 183 children made it through the finish funnel, with the fastest runner completing the course in 7:41.

It was a great morning seeing so many children being active and enjoying themselves.

Just the two of us! Tonight, Julie & I (Alys) headed over to St Mark’s Church in Kingsfield to help out at their newly established community garden.

The hawthorn trees planted to create some lovely hedges were feeling a bit suffocated by grass and other small plants sharing their soil.

We spent an hour and a half with garden forks and spades getting as rid as many of the weeds as possible to leave behind a neat soil strip giving the saplings lots of much needed space.

I obtained some injuries - an ant bite to the calf and a speck of soil in the eye but this didn’t slow us down!

We managed to slip in some strength training too by taking turns carrying the waste over to the compost heap.

They are looking for regular volunteers to help maintain the garden - so if you have an hour to spare on a Wednesday morning, make sure to get in touch with Rosemary at St Mark’s.

Junior Park Run 🌧

This morning Wayne got to the park early to help run directors Victoria & Rich set up the 2k course for the runners 🏃‍♂️ There were dark clouds hovering over the course but luckily we had no rain . Melanie also joined Wayne this morning to carry out marshal duties.

We were short of volunteers this morning but thankfully a few parents stepped in last minute to help out.

In total this morning there were 118 runners with the fastest time being a fantastic 07:42 😊. There also 31 PB's fantastic running by everyone.

Bio-diversity 🌍

This morning new member of Woking Goodgym Stephanie joined up with We Act to carry out an outdoor task in St John's Lye.

Plenty of Balsam was removed as well as cutting back laurel 😊

Great work Stephanie hope to see you soon.

Sam Beare Hospice

This evening we had the task of delivering leaflets on behalf of Sam Beare Hospice highlighting the up and coming annual dragon boat race 🐉

Wayne got to the lake early and did a 5k run. As soon as he finished his run he made a start and headed to one of the streets around the lake. In total we had 200 leaflets to deliver. Katie arrived shortly after. Katie also did a total of 9k this evening. Becky was also due to come and help but got caught up at work 😢 It was a lovely evening and we managed to get to get all delivered.

All Aboard Club 🚂

This morning Wayne, Alys, & Julie met Richard from All Aboard Club at Brookwood Halls to help build the big train track for the kids to enjoy 😊.

We were joined by a few other volunteers from local organisations. We Helped unload the car and between us took ll the crates into the hall and strategically placed them around.

Alys & Julie started to place the chairs around the hall for the parents then it was time to build. We all started in different area's and started to lay the tracks. within 30 mins the track was looking great. The track had plenty of loops and turns it must of been one of the most technical and interesting tracks we had done, it looked great.

This coming Wednesday we will be doing a leaflet drop around the Goldsworth Park Area for Sam Beare Hospice 😊