GoodGym Southampton

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Delighted to meet up with our friends recently at Highcliffe Beach parkrun to celebrate 300th parkrun and 100th volunteer. We had runners, walkers, volunteerers, sea swimmers and cake eaters!

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Bat Watch 🦇

It’s been a very busy few weeks for us! On bank holiday Monday we did our first ever bat survey at Bartley Park. We think we detected:

🦇 Common and Soprano Pipistrelles
🦇 Lesser Horseshoes
🦇 Serotines
🦇 Daubentons

We also had time for a run and testing out the dog park before it got dark! Friends of Bartley Park are doing a great job supporting wildlife in the park and making it a lovely space for the community.

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We can’t wait to turn our helpful hands to a spot of paint throwing!! 🫟

Let’s get colourful 🎨 Running / walking pals will be volunteering Colour dash next month and we would love to see you there…and by that we mean we would love to throw paint at you!! 🤩

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We were delighted to be able to support this project a few weeks ago 😊

Southampton teen transforms 'unsafe' alleyway with community A teenager from the St Mary's area of Southampton transforms an "unsafe" alleyway into a "vibrant" space.

Happy 3rd Birthday to us! 🎉

What a fantastic evening to celebrate our birthday. Three years ago we had our very first gathering at Aldermoor of local people who wanted to be involved in Southampton GoodGym. And look at what we have achieved since! Strong community connections, real impact for local nonprofit organisations, fitness and friendships. There’s even a GG baby and we’ve lost count of how my GG cats 🤣 Everything we have done has been achieved through a fantastic and growing group of like-minded volunteers wanting to make a difference in their community. Toad patrols, bus cleaning, litter picking, helping maintain graves at the old cemetery, turning compost, helping chickens on the way to their new homes, cutting back brambles, marshalling charity runs, slug hunting, Santa’s grotto building (and elf-ing!) and brick cleaning. We’ve done it all. Every task big or small makes a difference.

Happy Birthday Southampton GoodGymers 🎉 It was so great to see everyone old and new. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been, you’ll always be welcome. We even had a visitor from 😊 Here’s to another year of doing good, keeping fit, chatting too much, eating cake…and taking silly photos! 🤩

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We’ll be there cheering you all along! 🎉

Have you joined our 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 yet? 🩷🧡💛💚🩵

Join our fabulously fun 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵 this June to raise funds that'll help 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 for disabled children and young people.

👉 www.roseroad.org.uk/colourdash

This super family-friendly, joyful event will see you get vibrantly colourful at various points as you run, walk, dance or wheel your way around the 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝟱𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 at Wide Lane Sports Ground, Eastleigh.

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A lovely day in the sun, planting trees!
Thanks to all that came down. Familiar and new faces.
Special shout out to GoodGym Southampton!
Thanks for spending your Sunday with us. ❤️💚

Last night we were supporting the Great British Spring Clean 🏙️ In an hour we cleared 5 sacks of cans and as many bags with other rubbish. The cans will be given to Team Totton who collect them to raise money for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. So it’s a double good deed! We also had to report a knife which was collected by the police. So not only did we make Southampton cleaner we also made it safer 👏 Swipe to see our most incredible before and after yet!!

We will be back picking again next week so head to website now and come join us to show a little love to the streets of Southampton. And if you know a spot in Southampton which could use a little love and tidy up please get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do.

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What a busy February we’ve had! 😴 Helping set up and pack down , Toad Patrols at Colden Common and Wellow, litter picking, supporting children’s craft activities at Pancake day session and organising the fundraising section of the loft, food bank collections and shopping for vulnerable people unable to get out themselves, and slug capturing .

Head to the website to see what we’ll be getting up to in March and to sign up. Those lighter evenings are nearly upon us! You do not need to become a member to attend our free sessions that support local non-profit organisations and groups with practical tasks. Tomorrow we’re off to help and it’s not too late to sign up. If you’re a local group or organisation needing help please get in touch to see if we can assist. Do good, keep fit.

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We need more toad patrollers! Come join a session and help those toads cross the road 🐸

Due to the drop in temperature and dry day Saturday, no patrol was carried out. The temperatures look like they are fluctuating in and out of the prefered range along with intermittent rain in the coming week so we will continue looking for toads. As the focus has been on getting new patrollers trained up I have yet to get to Embley lane but it has not been forgotten.

SUNDAY SUMMARY

A HUMUNGOUS thank you to all of our volunteers for being out in the cold wet evenings and to the drivers for your patience!

This week's numbers for Ryedown lane are:
Toads: 31
Frogs: 2
Newts: 7
TOTAL SAVED: 40

Total casualties: 120

Total number of patrollers: 17 including 5 under 16s (up to this week it was just me)!!!

We need more patrollers, please email [email protected] to get started. No experience necessary.