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Barrowing along

23 GoodGymers made their way to help the The Children's Allotment in Oxford.

  • Kayleigh Tompkins
  • Stu Belcher
  • Isabella Collins
  • Anwen Greenaway
  • Lorenzo
  • Bethan Greenaway
  • Sarah
  • Vicky Arnold
  • Oxford runner
  • Holly
  • Ben Foster
  • Amy Holguin
  • Venetia Lipscombe
  • Anna Bosher
  • Jocasta Patel
  • Amy Woolloff
  • Zoe
  • Laura Brown
  • Samantha Drewett
  • Alistair Sterling
  • Ruth Appeltant
  • Hattie Elvins
  • Dan
 
Wednesday, 12th of May 2021
 
Led by Bethan Greenaway

Today's task really did put the Gym into Goodgym.

We arrived at The Children's Allotment to find a slightly exasperated Alice. Her order of 20 tonnes of top-soil and compost had been delivered to the wrong end of the allotment site and was currently blocking an access gate. Step in Goodgym and our can-do attitude!

We quickly divided into three groups - one group at the delivery site armed with shovels, one shuttling back and forth with wheel barrows and one at the newly constructed raised beds ready to receive and layer up the soil.

It really was a case of all hands on deck - wheelbarrows materialised from allotment holders and the neighbouring Boundary Brook Nature Reserve (see you soon xx), barrows and bags were filled and scooted down to their originally-intended destination, and as Goodgymers had to go home new helpers stepped in to help.

Team work really does make the dream work.

Finally laying down our tools at 8pm we had managed to shift a whopping 6.5 tonnes of soil and compost and restore access through the blocked gate.

Huge congratulations to Isabella and Zoe on your 50 Good Deeds milestones - get those black t-shirts ordered!

Report written by Bethan Greenaway


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