Twelve GoodGymmers arrived soaked from their task at the cemetery to tackle the overgrown buddleia behind Fulford Social Hall. Like locusts they managed the task with incredible enthusiasm and panache! In 20 minutes they had accomplished more than the Parish Councillors could have hoped for.

Next Saturday 17th at 1pm we'll be shredding it all, leaving a completely renewed patio for Fulford Hall.

Today a hardy bunch met Clive at York Cemetery to do some raking

They have a Victorian infant grave area where 16000 crocuses were planted. They needed the area raked of leaves and twigs to make way for these come spring.

Due to the bumper turnout of volunteers, the task was completed in half the time so many headed off to make an earlier start on the 5th and final task of super Sunday.

On a very cold, and quite damp evening 11 super keen Yorkies turned out to brighten up the area around the Acorn rugby club, which often gets quite littery.

We split into two groups to head clockwise and anti-clockwise round the block. Time flies when you're picking up endless plastic bottles and sweetie wrappers, and it was soon time to head back to base, with a bag each filled up. It certainly wasn't hard to complete our "pick up 100 pieces of litter" January bingo square! Best find goes to Michael for the numberplate.

A quick photo and it was time to head home/go for a freezing cold run, according to preference.

Yorkies you are all legends for turning up tonight for our first group run of 2026, in sub zero temperatures! 🥶

It wasn't easy leaving the warmth of our new meeting place in the Ackhorne, but we zipped up and made our way out. We had a pre warm up warm up to keep warm, then welcomed newcomer Daniel (to York anyway), and celebrated Excellent Ed's 500th good deed and adorned him with the cape of good deeds. 👑

We named and numbered off by saying our goal for the year. Many involved not getting injured or getting a PB. We also had racing for the first time, being less late and cooking from a recipe book!

Without further ado we set off for Glen Allotments. The ground was too hard for the original digging task, but the ladies there did a great job in finding us alternatives. We had woodchip spreading, 🪏 , weeding 🌱 , prepping for a dead hedge 🪵 , and litter picking.

Our work was rewarded with some delicious flapjack before an energetic tabata workout to get warm.

We then headed back to base and a few stayed behind for a liquid refreshment at the pub 🍺

Well done gang! you're all superstars and have added to our January target!

This was the last of the tasks in the busy first four days of January. It was great to meet Dan and Jaime who had recently moved to York and had previously been involved in Goodgym in London. Dan and David started by replacing the nets on the basketball hoops before joining everyone else to cut back the ivy on the top if the wall. We also cleared and tidied some of the beds around it. By the end we had cleared a lot of the ivy back from the top of the wall to prevent it damaging the wall.