Keep Wales Tidy

Keep Wales Tidy – the charity working across Wales to protect our environment for now and for the future.

We’re Keep Wales Tidy – the charity working across Wales to protect our environment for now and for the future.

We know a good quality environment matters to people and the benefits can have a big impact on our communities, health and well-being and economy.

We take action to make a positive difference and our work ranges far and wide! We deliver practical action, environmental education, training, business services and environmental solutions across Wales.

We help set the standards high for parks, beaches, marinas and tourism in Wales through our range of internationally-accredited awards as well as being policy and research experts in our field.

At Keep Wales Tidy we:

Take action to make a positive difference Put people at the heart of everything we do Protect our environment for now and for the future

94 GoodGymers have supported Keep Wales Tidy with 109 tasks.


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CardiffGroup run
Dylan Stocker
Llion Wigley
Emily Cotterill
Lucy
Su Fernandez
Michael

Bagsie Malone

Tuesday 30th September

Written by Michael

Goodgym Cardiff Met as usual for our Tuesday group session, outside the Glassworks. Our destination was over to Sport Wales, where we would pick up anyone meeting at the task. Our task, a final farewell litterpick to the Summer, and boy did it get dark fast... Running lights needed next week.

We made our way into the depths of the park, over to the rugby car park, up to Western Avenue and back again to the start. It was quite a distance for the litterpick, but we cleaned up.

And Now

A quick ditty from Bugsy Malone,

We could've been anything
That we wanted to be
And I'm not saying we should
But if we tried it, we'd learn to abide it
We could be the best at being good
....

See you next time.

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CardiffCommunity mission
Lucy
Darren
Michael
Nathan Swain
Emma Wilkins

PlogGINg - we gave it a shot

Saturday 30th August

Written by Nathan Swain

Keen to work up a thirst before a gin-centred social, GG Cardiff met for a litter pick of the local area

schools are back on Tuesday and over the summer rubbish had accumulated in the fences and roads around two local schools. a quick blitz of the area left it looking ready to welcome back the kids and families from their summer break.

GG cardiff then headed off for drinks and to catch up on their respective summers

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CardiffCommunity mission
Graeme Zaple
Lucy
Sinéad McCarthy
Darren
Nathan Swain

Goodgym x The Green Runners x Trash Free Trails - Love Trails 2025 Round 2

Sunday 13th July

Written by Nathan Swain

Sunday morning of Love Trails 2025 saw Goodgym again team up with The Green Runners and Trash Free Trails to run to Whiteford Sands for a litter pick.

A breeze in the air was taking the edge off the heat, and five goodgymers were joined by 23 others to run 6km to Whiteford Sands for another seemingly beach clean.

With another three prizes provided for the best finds of the day, the group split into pairs to tackle another seemingly clean beach. After a 40 minute search to group gathered together to tally up the items of litter collected (1,503) and vote on the top 3 finds (1st - BB gun and plamobile man, 2nd - loafers, 3rd - goal posts).

With 10 full sacks of rubbish collected from what was at first glance a clean beach, the Goodgym run showcased the power of using your run for social good and the impact less than an hours volunteering can have en-masse.

Despite following his social media, attending his talk, and having tracked his Cape Town to London journey, run leader Nathan managed to miss that runner and activist Deo Kato had joined the run and chosen to spend some of his time off stage at the festival to join a Goodgym beach clean.

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CardiffGroup run
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Llion Wigley
Emily Cotterill
Darren
Emma Wilkins
Michael

Litter Split

Tuesday 15th April

Written by Michael

Due to circumstances out of our control our task for the evening had to cancel, and so we moved to the ever reliable litter pick. The weather was very changeable, and we had a yellow warning for rain and wind......quite a night for exercise.

We split into two groups, our walkers stayed in the City Centre and helped to clean it up, they even saw a duck or two. Who knew we had ducks in the City Centre....

The second group, the runners, made their way up to the alleys on Whitchurch road for a good clean. It was a nice run, followed by a walking litter pick, some interesting graffiti and items were seen. Unfortunately as we stopped for our group photo the rain started up again.

We ended extremely wet, but don't let that put you off coming back!

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CardiffGroup run
Lucy
Jonathan Blackwell
Darren
David McCullough
Martin Graff
Michael

A Novel Litter Pick

Tuesday 11th March

Written by Darren

Last night, the GoodGym crew took to the streets near Roath Library for a litter pick that was anything but trashy! Our team of litter legends included Michael, Darren, Lucy, Jonny, Dave, and Martin, who were ready to clean up and have a wheely good time.

Jonathan stumbled upon a collection of empty cans, and we couldn't help but say he was can-do attitude personified.

By the end of the evening, the area around Roath Library was spotless, and our team felt like they had truly cleaned up their act. Thanks to everyone for making this litter pick a bin-credible success! Let's keep running and picking, GoodGym!

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CardiffGroup run
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Adam Hammond
Imy Hopkins
Andrew Skelton
Martin Graff
Su Fernandez
Michael

What a Bute of a Street

Tuesday 11th February

Written by Michael

Our evening tonight was going to take place in Bute Street over Cardiff Bay, this part of Cardiff is steeped in glorious HISTORY and deserves a visit from the goodgymers.
And so, we made our way for a litterpick session. Walkers heading straight there on a shorter route, whilst Michael took the runners out for a 6km run (total there and back).
Plenty of time to catch up tonight, debating why bushes were cut the shapes they are - especially when they look like street urinals! A good 4 bags of rubbish, quite clean as the bags weren't full, a quick photo and then time to head back for some hot food.

Learning Time

  • Butetown was barren moorland until the late 1800s, when the 2nd Marquis of Bute decided to build the first dock in Cardiff.
  • The Coal Exchange was built in 1886 for leading businessmen, to meet to fix deals with countries all over the world.
  • In 1909, the first million-pound (£1,000,000) cheque was signed at the Exchange, and presented to the National Provincial Bank in Bute Street.
  • In 1937 Shirley Bassey was born at Adeline Street. By the time she was 20, Shirley was starring in shows in London, Paris, Monte Carlo and also sang three title songs for the 'Bond' films.
  • The Norwegian Church was built in 1868 for the Scandinavian community near the West Dock and has close associations with Roald Dahl (he was Christened there) and his family.

source - the cardiffians

We will be returning this way for a new project in a couple of weeks time.

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