This allotment meant-a-lot

On a lovely summer evening 20 Goodgymers ran 7km and helped at Antrim Allotments Association.

Corrr I bloody love Wednesday's, it's the volunteering, the run, the sweat, the good and amazing people!

Welcome to the newbies Louisa and Becky whose first ever GoodGym was last night!

In the news this week:

• Well done to John Shirley for hitting his 50 Good Deeds and getting his black t-shirt last night!
• Farewell to Neil Macey who is off to Japan to be an English Lecturer - thanks for your commitment to GoodGym, have fun and we'll see you in December!
• Next Thursday (8 September) is GoodGym Monthly Drinks in Brixton, it's going to be great - sign up here

After an active warm up, we headed to Antrim Allotments near Belsize Park to help with various tasks. We are plagued by traffic lights but challenged by a hill - a big hill! The task this was gardening but this time with a difference, many of allotment plot owners are elderly so cannot fully look after their areas enough - so we came to do the hard work!

Important work

We arrived to meet David, Piers and many more of the committee to explain what needed to be done; splitting into groups it's amazing what we can get done in 25 minutes!

We had the following amazing tasks:

• Cutting down and sawing up small but pesky trees.
• Digging a 3 FOOT hole (well we tried)
• Trimming a blackberry bush
• Digging up potatoes
• Weeding and cutting back general areas

Everyone did fantastically and was amazing to see the plot owners working alongside and the GoodGym Team.

Plot Owners + GGers = success

On the way back we split into two groups, with Steve leading a group along the canal and another group going the conventional route.

Question: Can you guess the wearers of these trainers - please comment below!

Thanks for a wonderful evening guys, next week we are gardening for Sheltered Housing and doing another task TBC - it's going be great as always! Sign up here

PB out.