Bench there, Done map

11 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
Carl Wain
John Bourton
Bec
Mitch
Simon Brook
Helen Carr
Kate Hughes
Penny Gregg
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York

Friday 10th January 2020

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It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon for a spot of benchmarking; a large scale city-wide project to create a fully updated resource showing the locations of 'age-friendly' benches (i.e. have arms and a back).

We met at Rowntree Park today and our mission was to complete benchmarking for a lot of the city parks which are locked up in the evenings.

Carl was chief map coordinator and everytime we do this task (this is the third one), there's a new work around to make it more efficient and organised.

Simon is a local orienteer and was looking forward to using his navigational skills to do some good. He and John completed the Westbank Park section and not only came back with all the bench data but with map corrections in general!

We'll have a huge evening benchmarking session on the evening of Wednesday 22nd to complete sections in the north of the city, so come and get invovled with the next round.


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Age Friendly York
To map benches in the Micklegate Ward

Looks at how York does to make the place an age friendly city through World Health Organisation checks. Age Friendly York is currently looking at Getting Out And About and residents are saying they need benches to break up their journey so they can get to the shops and other places.

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Carl Wain

Sun 12th Jan 2020 at 10:55am

Thank you everyone for your help

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