Everything including the kitchen sink

20 Goodgymers helped their local community in Oxford
Angus Grant
Megan
Ben Gremson
Thomas Heath
Shati Patel
Zoe
Katie Fellows
Louise Hall
Ben Foster
Matt Burton
Holly
Vicky Arnold
Sarah McFadden
Jessica Lorimer
Sarah
Julia
Bethan Greenaway
Rachael H
Lorenzo
Anwen Greenaway
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Oxford

Wednesday 19th January 2022

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Vicky Arnold
Vicky Arnold

PHOTOGRAPHER

Bethan Greenaway
Bethan Greenaway

PHOTOGRAPHER

Rachael H
Rachael H

WALK LEADER

Anwen Greenaway
Anwen Greenaway

SESSION ORGANISER

PHOTOGRAPHER

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In a dark, dark city,
There was a dark, dark road,
And off that dark, dark road,
There was a dark, dark path,
And along that dark, dark path,
There was a dark, dark school,
And a dark, dark brook,
And a dark, dark nature reserve,
And dark, dark allotments.
And all of them were blighted by litter,
Blowing in from the dark, dark path.

It was certainly a dark, dark, cold, cold night for litter picking last night!

It was well worth wrapping up warm, donning our hi-vis and head torches and patrolling the paths and cycle ways of Boundary Brook area to clear up the litter and fly-tipping. It's a litter grot spot just where you wouldn't want one (I mean, we don't want them anywhere, but this is particularly bad) - by two primary schools, edging a waterway and a nature reserve, and one of the worst areas is right outside the Children's Allotment.

We filled a couple of dozen litter bags with masks, cans, newspapers, takeaway cartons, and all the usual litter suspects. More surprising were the lengths of carpet, kitchen sink and assorted other flytipping!

Welcome to GoodGym Megan!


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Suzanne Vost
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Thu 20th Jan 2022 at 5:55pm

Great report and fantastic work! Well done

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