A bumper crowd from GoodGym Stockport came out to clear a sandy area close to the Waterside Hotel - henceforth known as a "beach" - of litter and discarded waste that has accumulated from the river and from passers by or fly-tippers.

Ian and Liam from Venture Out were very happy to have a group to collect as much as possible, providing bags and litter pickers, with the bags supplemented from our own steady supply during the Great British Spring Clean.

Meera, Laura, and Ben made the ~3 km run from Life Leisure Cheadle, to be joined by Hannah by bike and Julie in the Waterside Hotel car park. Once we had located the Venture Out vans, we made our way out to the Mersey shore to get cracking.

Amongst the sand was a whole array of items, including:

• shoes (lots and lots of discarded shoes)
• crisp packets
• cans and bottles
• clothing (coats, fleeces, jackets)
• cones and tyres (too big for the bags but we put them in a single pile anyway)
• trolleys
• beer kegs
• 4 or 5 car registration plates plus other parts of cars such as bumpers

We collected easily 15-20 full refuse sacks that we then had to lug back to the van to drop in their final location next to a public bin to be reported to Keep MCR Tidy for collection by the roaming council collections vans during the working week.

Great way to spend the first Tuesday in the setting sun with the clock change allowing extra light until nearly 8pm! Great to see you all and we'll be back with Venture Out in 3 weeks to get into the water to help clear the area near Burnage Rugby Club.

Three goodgymers ran up to Castle Street in Edgeley to complete a litter pick.

It was nice to receive thanks from members of the public, and we were shocked at the number of discarded cigarette butts!

Huge congrats to Hannah who completed her 100th good deed tonight 🎉🎉🎉

Ben, Hannah and Laura got together to deliver the last of the leaflets for Together Trust - advertising their Spring Raffle and Car Boot Sale.

We chatted all things work whilst admiring the pink sky from the sunset 🌄

Another leaflet delivery done for Together Trust - this time advertising for their upcoming raffle and Paint & Sip event.

It was great to see Hannah again after a few weeks, we had lots catch up on!

Same time again next week for the remainder of the leaflets!