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Ideologically opposed to Membrane

2 GoodGymers made their way to help the Sunshine & Smiles gardening project in Leeds.

  • Helen Noyes
  • Leeds runner
 
Saturday, 27th of April 2024
 
Led by Laura

Two Leeds GoodGymers made their way to Stainbeck Community Hall to continue working on the Sunshine and Smiles garden. We were lucky enough to meet Sunshine and Smiles' co-founder, Ailith Harley-Roberts who has just joined the list of inspirational Leeds women whose names will adorn a new city centre sculpture called The Ribbons. This is to recognise her work supporting families in the city with children who have Down Syndrome. The garden will provide a safe space for families to come and spend time together. Today we were tasked with breaking up an old sandpit cover into small enough pieces ready to take to the tip, and also to clear an overgrown path leading to the rear garden. This entailed digging out weeds and pulling out old pieces of membrane which were no longer working to suppress the weeds. This is when Jubz announced he was ideologically opposed to membrane....he's been spending too much time at Bedford Fields! Once again there was plenty more work to complete than we had time for, so hopefully we'll be back soon.

Report written by Helen Noyes


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Laura
Laura
Saturday April 27th, 2024 17:00

Well done Jubz & Helen, it looks like you had a good morning!

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Laura
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