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Ben Foster

Ben Foster


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Delivering leaflets for Together Trust
🗓Tuesday 7th October 6:30pm

📍Life Leisure Cheadle SK8 1JR

Advertising the community events to the local community

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Ben Foster went on a community mission

Sat 4th Oct at 8:30am

An Amy-able morning

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

With allotment tasks and other parkruns cancelled due to the high winds and rain from Storm Amy 🌧🌩🌪☔️, I went to my closest parkrun in Platt Fields Park (South Manchester) to help hand out finish tokens 🌳🦺

Over 500 runners and walkers completed the 5 km course with plenty of wind-assisted times.

Hands got cold but nothing a cup of tea at home couldn't solve.

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Ben Foster signed up to a group run.

Mon 13th Oct at 6:15pm

Food bank run

Donation of essential items for a local food bank

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Ben Foster went on a group run

Mon 29th Sep at 6:15pm

Starter for 10

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Welcome to Jackson for his first GoodGym Manchester outing! Great to meet you and hope to see you again soon.

This evening, we met up in St Peter's Square and made a brisk walk towards Hulme to pick up any discarded waste and litter. We found plenty of bottles, cans, vapes, cartons, tissue, plus some discarded plug ends, wheel trims, food cartons, and coffee cups.

We collected 3 full bags on the city centre side of the fridge and an additional 7 on the side near Hulme Park, with a surprising number of budweiser cans making up a large chunk, making 10 refuse bags in total!

The bag locations were recorded and Keep Manchester Tidy were informed for them to be collected ASAP. Fingers crossed removing some of the litter will discourage others from dropping more rubbish 🗑 🚮

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Ben Foster went on a community mission

Sun 28th Sep at 12:00pm

How much do you bench?

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

Gaynor and Ben went along to help at Parakeet Pathway in Hulme, a site overseen by the Gaskell Garden Project.

As part of their regular Sunday volunteering session, Ben helped construct 2 picnic benches, making sure it was level, with parallel uprights, and secured the wooden planks for the seating and top. We also secured it to the ground (so it didn't go walkies...) using concrete screws and fastened with double bolts. Just needs treating but certainly ready to use for locals and passers by.

We both then took to weeding and clearing some of the beds, with lots of grass and weeds taking over. We used this as mulch for the fruit trees nearby.

There was some brief physical respite when planting lots of garlic, using straw to cover any loose soil.

Busy but productive session. Will post when they have another session soon.

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Jack

Mon 29th Sep at 1:18pm

great work!

Ben Foster
Ben Foster went on a mission

Sat 27th Sep at 1:00pm

September shearing

Trafford Report written by Ben Foster

Ran the 9ish km to help out Mrs L to clear her front garden. With the warm summer, the grass and weeds had taken over so needed a bit of GoodGym elbow grease to get it moved.

With a sturdy pair of gloves and a decent Flymo lawn mower, I managed to remove a lot of the long grass, remove a self seeded tree, and pull out any weeds that were starting to take root. 90 min of hard work certainly had the desired outcome, with the garden waste bin full to the brim.

Likely back again soon to help lop some branches from a tree at the back. More before & after pictures taken but too big to upload.

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Hounslow runner

Mon 29th Sep at 4:20pm

Fantastic job, Ben!!

Ben Foster
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Sat 27th Sep at 8:30am

Hoarse from the course

Manchester Report written by Ben Foster

409 runners ran or walked the 5 km course at event number 266 at Fletcher Moss. I was Run Director so just about managed to get enough volunteers, and did the 1st timers briefing, set up, main briefing, and results processing. I'm now slightly hoarse from the briefing and funnel managing.

Thank you to the 16 volunteers who enabled the event to go ahead. Juno was marshal on the course and found a massive stick 🌳

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Vicky Arnold
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Ben Foster
Ben Foster signed up to a community mission.

Sun 28th Sep at 12:00pm

Parakeet Pathway Gardening session

Help out a local community gardening and permaculture group in Hulme

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Ben Foster
Ben Foster signed up to a mission.

Sat 27th Sep at 1:00pm

Gardening for Mrs L (flexi) (wk 3)

Huge benefit to her mental health and wellbeing - used to be a keen gardener before reduced mobility

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Ben Foster
Ben Foster signed up to a group run.

Tue 7th Oct at 6:30pm

Delivering leaflets for Together Trust

Advertising the community events to the local community

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Ben Foster
Ben Foster signed up to a group run.

Mon 29th Sep at 6:15pm

Plog on litterpick

Remove litter and improve the local environment

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