Welcome to Julie and Lucy for their first GoodGym outing, and Sophie for her first stroll with GoodGym Manchester! Hope you enjoyed the walk and look forward to meeting you again.

Today, as part of the GM Walking Festival, we took route number 14 of the Manchester Green Trail from Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury up to Levenshulme, passing several green spaces in South Manchester 🌳 The weather was sunny and warm 🌞 so no waterproofs, woolly hats, or extra layers were needed (although we did come prepared). Water bottles, sunglasses 😎 and sun cream were much more necessary!

Passing through Didsbury Park up to Fog Lane park and beyond, we discovered a vast network of ginnels in between houses and estates, some tidier and more accessible than others.

Along the way there were conversations over running, doom scrolling, rambling, volunteering, improvised comedy, choir, dogs & cats, Bristol, plus much much more. A handy McDonald's along the way for a toilet break was a cheery relief too.

We ended to walk near Station South rather than Chapel Street Park as the bike festival 🚲 there was in full swing and the food and drink was certainly tempting following the 10 km walk.

We'll try to organise more walks in the Manchester area to visit other parts over the warmer and lighter summer months, so keep an eye out for those.

Big welcome to Nicole for their first every GoodGym session! Well done for your first outdoor run in a while and great to have you along for the task with What If? in Stockport. Look forward to meeting you again soon.

Following the warm jog from Life Leisure Avondale, we arrived at What If? with a few different tasks required. After introductions and hearing about the things What If? get up to, we donned gloves and grabbed some gardening tools to remove lots of sticky willy otherwise known as Galium aparine from their community garden.

Once we had filled most of their compost bin and watered some courgette seedlings, we turned our attention indoors to help out with the big shed sort-out to catalog and label all the gardening and decorating tools that had accumulated. Ranging from rakes to spades and forks, plus lots of pots and hand tools, we made a decent dent in the big sort-out, so hopefully things are a bit more organised for future use.

Nicole stayed for a bite to eat and chat with the What If? crew while Maimoona and Ben made their way home. We hope to be back again soon!

With the sunny weather and bank holiday, rubbish and litter had started to build up in the local area.

Juno and Ben picked up a few sacks of rubbish and discarded waste from around Longsight and Rusholme.

In between work, I did the pre-event course check at Fletcher Moss parkrun before 500+ people completed the 5 km course.

Later in the day, I joined a community group in Longsight to help clean up the area of rubbish on the streets. Big group collecting 41 bags of litter in total!