Lewisham

Group run

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14 GoodGymers made their way 2.4km to help the St Mary's Primary School in Lewisham.

  • Roseanne
  • Steve Lee
  • Kim Parker
  • Vic
  • Greenwich runner
  • Iitmari
  • Lewisham runner
  • Greenwich runner
  • Adam Letch
  • Julian Osman
  • Francesca Lean
  • Sam Sam Hui
  • Lewisham runner
  • Isaac Beevor
 
Monday, 25th of July 2022
 
Led by Kim Parker

After a week off group running due to the extreme heat, we were ready and raring to go! It was a shorter run this week over to St Mary's Primary School to continue clearing that space which will eventually become a Forest School. We are lucky to have been involved in this task right from the start and it has been amazing to see the progress since our first visit.

Our main task tonight was a fairly simple one: to remove all the rubbish and glass from the site. The school don't want the rubbish surfacing at a later date when there are children using the area. Armed with thick leather gloves, we began clearing years and years of rubbish including a lot of tennis balls and the more creepy, a doll with matted hair and the more strange, a metal pipe covered in plastic bamboo.

The other tasks that needed to be completed this evening included moving the larger branches and pieces of wood into a pile as these will be used for building structures in the Forest School. And also moving the fence panels to the rubbish pile.

With 5min to go our last task for the evening was to move a pile of concrete that had been dug up to the rubbish pile - the group got stuck in and it was done in no time. All that was left was for me to remove the bramble thorns from my leg and it was group photo time and back to Glass Mill.

Report written by Kim Parker


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Kim Parker
Led by Kim Parker

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