Colossal Effort at Cossall Estate

18 GoodGymers made their way 2.0km to help the Cossall Estate Tenants and Residents Association in Southwark.

: Wednesday, 7th of August 2019
: Led by Lucy J

Southwark News

HEY TEAM thanks for welcoming me along to Southwark last night, and thank you LUCY for showing me the ropes!
Next week 14th August is sadly her very LAST run, she would love to see as many of you there! We're running 6km overall to Bell House. Find out more and sign up here. And also giving Lucy a suitable send off after our run, next door at the very friendly BATCH BAR!
The following week will be 7km overall run to Galleywall Nature Reserve for a bit more digging and clearing pathways to help local kids access the site. Find out more and sign up here.

Now lets get down to business

Last night we ran 2.5km overall to do some weeding and digging up potatoes at Cossall Estate gardens.

We were met by Victoria, one of only a few volunteers who tends to these gardens on Sundays, to help maintain this space so that the area can be enjoyed by anyone living locally or just passing by!

Shout out to Kate, Emily & Lawrence who came on her first ever group run tonight! We hope to see you again soon :)

The gardens were only small but there was plenty of growth amongst the nettles and weed activity, including plenty of small potatoes. We set to work in 2 groups: one group tackling the metre tall weeds within the potato bed in extremely quick speed!! so quick in fact I wasn't able take a before photo! The second group skillfully identified which were weeds and which in fact were raspberry plants, whilst braking down brambles and filling up 10 or so bags, being careful not to rip into any plastic or flesh! In 40 minutes we'd dramatically changed the shape of these flower beds, unearthed a few potatoes and even said hello to a tiny snail! We were thanked by Victoria who was thoroughly pleased with our efforts, managing to get through so much in such a short time! She also said we are welcome to make a return trip... hopefully we will visit again soon.

All that was left was a quick team workout featuring Mexican wave Press Ups & Squats, GoodGym style Wrestling, and a race from the floor with a photo finish!