| Isle of Wight Green Gym
Caring for our Island's countryside since 2003. |
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| Isle of Wight Green Gym
Caring for our Island's countryside since 2003. |
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| Home | How it all started | About us | Want to volunteer? | Can we help with your project? |
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Find out more: Contact us: Volunteers: General enquiries: |
On 25 September 2024, at Old School Meadow, Gurnard, Isle of Wight Green Gym celebrated 1,000 sessions of volunteering as an independent community group. As of that date, more than 630 people had taken part since we started: allowing for average attendance, that amounted to nearly 67,000 man hours! We had also taken part in around 50 Zoom sessions during the Coronavirus pandemic. We had worked at over 190 different locations across the Isle of Wight. Session number 1024 on 2 April 2025 was at a new venue, Lake Station (above), where we worked on the planters and flower beds for the IW Community Rail Partnership, and carried out a litter pick in the locality. To see a report and photos of the session please click here. By getting involved in practical conservation work like this, our aim is to benefit the countryside of the Isle of Wight, and improve our own health and wellbeing at the same time. We meet every Wednesday morning throughout the year at venues all around the Island, and always welcome new members. Please click on the links (left) to find out more about us, email us for details of upcoming sessions, or click here to download our leaflet. |
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Last updated 09/04/2025 |
In 2009 we were awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award given to volunteer groups for outstanding work in their own communities. |
Since 2006 our sessions have been recorded on our Blog, which is updated regularly with lots of photos. |
