2 Goodgymers help the 2nd Warwick Sea Scouts with some gardening maintenance.

This mission was very conveniently placed as it just so happened to be in St Nick's park, where we start a lot of group runs. Unfortunately, one out of two of our runners happened to be recovering from surgery so couldn't run to the location so James got a quick few laps in while we waited for the task owner to arrive.

Not long later, Hazel arrived to show us the ropes and we got to work laying cardboard of the grass area behind the scout building to stop the weeds coming through. Despite the large area, we made quick work of this part of the task so we went ahead and cleared some grass from the entryway. That's when James discovered two little frogs huddled under a pile of leaves, narrowly escaping being swept up with the garden waste!

After a few more trips to the wheelie bin, the entryway was looking much clearer and we called it an evening. Unfortunately that's precisely when the heavens decided to open up on us and it was a mad dash back through the car park. Nevertheless, it was a lovely time helping out with the Sea Scouts and we hope to be back soon!

This week's group run was set yo involve some gardening and maintenance for the Warwick Sea Scouts but unfortunately the weather had some other plans. Hazel let us know that it would be best to keep the gardening gloves away this week so it was time on feet for us this evening.

The last minute snow meant a quick interval session in St Nick's park instead with a short lap cool down. Fortunately we've been able to reschedule for next week so if you are still up for some light gardening, don't forget to sign up!

5 Goodgymers took like ducks to water helping the 2nd Warwick Sea Scouts with a spring clean of their boathouse.

Other volunteers had been helping all day, so by the time we arrived lots of the cleaning tasks were already completed. Amy and Katherine started with putting back all the Kayaks that had been taken out to clean whilst Laura and Lil helped with the big sort getting rid of lots of old paperwork and random items that had accumulated in the boathouse over many years.

We had to overcome our hoarding tendencies and be really ruthless with getting rid of things that were no longer required now that lots of admin has gone online. Once boxes were full, we then carried them downstairs to be added to the rubbish pile in the compound ready to be disposed of.

It was then a case of moving some tables into a back room which will now be used as a changing room. This room required a good clean including lots of cobwebs being vacuumed up and removing some shelves that were at perfect eye poking height to avoid any future accidents now that the room will be used by kids frequently.

All the clearing, cleaning and tidying meant that there was now a huge area in the main upstairs room that enabled Nigel to put his skills to work creating a new changing room out of some old tent poles. Sounds impossible, but a real production line was set up by some of the volunteers and 2 hours later, the frame for a changing room was in position!

It was great to learn a bit more about this organisation and we hope to be back again very soon to help with future tasks.