On a beautiful autumn Sunday morning, 4 GoodGymers joined Headingley Development Trust to remove graffiti from the Telecoms Boxes on Alma Road.

The Graffiti Working Group is a group wishing to address the growing problem of graffiti tagging in Headingley and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Activities undertaken by the group include fund raising, awareness raising, the physical removal of tags, supporting Council graffiti removal activities, procuring professional cleaners when required, commissioning street art and developing initiatives to support legal forms of street art.

We completed 4 boxes & will put in a session in a few weeks to finish off.

Four members of GoodGym Leeds plus one honorary member made our way to Heart in Headingley to clean up the nearby walls of graffiti. It was a tough job & took some elbow grease but we made good progress. It felt good to clean up the area of our new meeting point. Several people stopped & asked about what we were doing, including someone hangin' on the passengers side of his best friends ride, tryin' holla at us....

Check out the before & after pictures.

Heart are a Community Benefit organisation based in Headingley. They operate the Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART), the Headingley Greengrocer shop, a monthly Headingley Farmers Market and various other projects including a Community Orchard, the Zero Carbon Headingley group, and a monthly Cafe Scientifique amongst other things.