A welcome back evening

It was so nice to see Sue and Craig back this evening and we do hope that we will continue to see more of you in the coming weeks and months - we have missed you both :)

Tonight we set to work to clear more rubbish in our local beauty spot. We have already visited this area twice in the last 6 weeks but sadly, it always needs more attention.

Craig started near where we had parked and found a substantial amount of litter straight away.

Barbara and Sue set of to the far end of the task and worked backwards walking towards us. they quickly filled a bag and started on a second!

Stéphane and El headed straight to the most littered part of the area where Roxy, Paula and I pitched in too. Highly addictive !

Before long we had filled 7 more bags to the brim. This means that in the last 6 weeks we have filled 22 bags ! Sadly we had to leave the bigger items of wood and parts from a computer but what a HUGE difference we have made ! Visually the area now looks clear. We will revisit this beauty spot every month so that we can get this area under control especially during the spring and summer months.

Thank you all for tonight and see you next week

Julia xx

Last minute change of plan

With the recent rain and subsequent water logged ground I needed to have a change of plan to the original one so we headed to Goring Gap to carry out a litter pick. This is always a great back up plan as, sadly there is always so much litter strewn all over this popular area.

Despite the change of location , I was so grateful for the turn out tonight. Thank you to my team - Paul, Sarah, El, Paula,Ricky, Ryan, Mel and Paul.

We split into two teams so that we weren't all following the same litter trail. Paul disappeared directly into the bushes near where we had parked and proceeded to almost fill a bin liner with discarded cans and bottles. Sad but true.

Paula, Paul,Mel Ryan headed off to do the top end of the task with Ricky in pursuit.

El and I worked as a team and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves chatting and alternating with a huge amount of litter picking. We joined up with Paul and although there was still litter everywhere we had to stop 'seeing' it as our bags were full to bursting !

We will return as there is still loads to do !

Have a great week. Special mention to Mel doing her first half marathon at Brighton on Sunday together with Paul who will hopefully be doing it if he gets better in time. Lets hoe the weather is kind and that we get the sun shining !

Hope to see you all soon.

Julia xx

With just hours until the finish of the January challenge, 4 of us put in a final surge to get the total GG tasks over 4500. With our contribution it went to 4501 ! 👏👌💪

Our Worthing target is standing on a tantalising 99 which is way more than we have ever achieved and above and beyond our target of 65 which was already an optimistic one 😇 We also smashed our 2500 km target which was also a challenging one.
I'm so happy and proud of our small but mighty area 😍

Bravo to John , Barbara and our intrepid runner Roxy who came out on Friday afternoon to make a start on litter picking our local beauty spot at Goring Greensward just near to the sea.

We managed to fill the bags we had with us which were soon laden and heavy too. Sadly, we only managed to scratch the surface of the litter strewn verges but we will be back!

Here endeth the 2025 January challenge Amen to that 🙏

**A big GG Worthing welcome 🙏

On a dark drizzly night at the end of October we were really pleased to offer a very warm GoodGym welcome to Mel and Paul who joined us for the first time on our task tonight. It was so good to meet you both and we sincerely hope it will be the first of many tasks together.

Despite the darkness and rainy conditions there was plenty of cheery chat :)

There is an area of Goring Greensward that is not covered by Worthing Borough Council bins and attracts a lot of rubbish. As a dog walker in the area it has been bugging me for a while. Last month myself, together with Mr and Mrs Robinson ( aka John and Belinda) we had made a really great start but tonight, with more people and armed with our trusty GG work lights together with bright head torches, we continued this fantastic work.

In the course of the task I learned that Sarah and Ryan have recently been to Italy - did anyone know this ? If they hadn't before the task they certainly will do by now ! However, on returning from running, both of them completed their virtual Great south Run on Saturday and Sunday in signature style - well done both of you :)

Ricky had also completed his VGSR in true Ricky style and pace - many congratulations :) Ricky was very illuminated tonight ( see the photo) which, given the theme of the evening @thisgirlcan ' lifting the curfew' was perfect timing.

Daisy also happened to mention about her up and coming holiday in the Lake District where the weather looks forecast to be dry ! Regardless of the weather Daisy will love it - tonight she especially loved clearing up all the litter ( quite competitive ! )

As ever, Paula and Barbara dug in tonight with their usual energy and good humour helping to ensure that, despite the weather, the task was a really worthwhile one.

With the dark nights here we will continue to do good in the community throughout the winter months - your continuing participation and support is much appreciated. In addition to the Monday night tasks and community missions, I will be adding in fitness and socials to help us through too :)

Have a great week

Julia xx

Curb Crawling

The three of us met, feeling decidedly chilly, but determined on this blustery evening on the sea front Armed with our litter pickers and bags we started an epic task - to clear litter along the verges of the roads alongside Goring Greensward beauty spot.

It was heartbreaking to see the volume of litter strewn everywhere. We could have done with 20 of us to have completely got rid of all the rubbish.

However, we jammed 3 bags full before the light faded and we got cold. We vowed to return another day with more people and more bags !

Thank you so much to Mr and Mrs R Belinda and John Much appreciated and bizarrely it felt like a very worthwhile time spent.

Next time - more of you all please 🙏

Have a great week

Julia xx

Shingle all the way

On a gorgeous moonlit evening we met up at the west end of Worthing in Goring -by -Sea. The task tonight was to clear a busy seafront path with a plethora of stones and shingle that had spilled over from the beach.

It was an extra special evening tonight as we were celebrating 2 important milestones - Congratulations to

Duncan 200th task.

and Ricky 100th task

Whilst I took Sarah, Craig and Paul off for a 3 km run along the prom, plus Anne joined us too, the rest of the team started shovelling shingle.

On our return ,despite a few concerns about making the path too muddy if we removed all the stones, we compromised and left a layer of protection for both easier walking but less claggy. It was tough manual work which will be much appreciated by the 1000's of people both residents and visitors who use the path. Great work team.

99....100.... 200

Once the task was finished, we took a few moments of appreciation for both Ricky and Duncan on both their milestone tasks.

Ricky joined us in October 2019 and has worked on both his running and wellbeing ever since. 100 tasks later, multiple running PB's and now with a whole new wardrobe of running gear, Ricky will, I'm quite sure, continue to forge onwards with his GG and running journey. We look forward to catching up with Ricky's progress again on his 200th!

Many thanks to John for the wonderful 100th avatar momento that he had crafted so beautifully for Ricky - a really brilliant job.

Onto Duncan who not only joined us from day 1 in March 2017 -but also brought GG (and parkrun) to Worthing. Since then, Duncan has been stalwart in his support. As a task force member, he regularly organises tasks and is always looking to maximise opportunities for us all. Since 2017 Duncan has been on a lot of adventures with, almost weekly parkrun tourism ( sometimes with Ricky) but mostly with ([https://www.goodgym.org/admin/runners/lucy-booth]) and his other 'gentlemen' buddies! He has also covered a lot of km's both walking and running including completing an ultra last year with Lucy. Massive kudos to you Duncan and grateful thanks too. Wear that beanies with pride! Notice I haven't mentioned your legendary participation in the GG fitness challenges :)

GoodGym January Challenge

As a small but mighty group, i think its fair to say that we are quite competitive. With this is mind please do your best to get as many km's and good deeds in this January. We have a goal of 70 good deeds and 3,000km's to complete before 31/1. So far we are on 23 good deeds and 803 km's. We are on track but lets try and be crowned winner of group H !

Heres the link to the live tracker

https://www.goodgym.org/january_challenge#h

This weekend there is park run on Saturday and fitness on Sunday to sign up to.

Check out whats happening here

https://www.goodgym.org/my/happenings

See you all next week :)