Hard of clearing

You guys clearly love to save a sapling as we had 17 of you come along for the evening for the final round of clearing down on the canal.

It’s been a mammouth task over the summer but last night we went down for the third and final time to finish cutting back all the overgrowth so that these new trees have the space they need to continue to grow. Originally planted by trees for cities a few years ago the maintenance of these new saplings is crucial but sometimes forgotten task so we were on board to make sure this wasn’t the case!

We started by welcoming Katie to her first ever GoodGym run (give her a cheer!) and sadly said goodbye to Sam and Callum as tonight is their last run with GoodGym Ealing (at least for a while).

• Sam is off to South London and will continue to take part in GoodGym there (yay!). He’s been a huge part of our group over the last few months and has done 28 good deeds since March, he's been a regular on the group runs and community missions as well as touring around other areas, he’ll be greatly missed!
• And Callum is off to Dublin to do a masters at Trinity, he’s done loads of GoodGyming over the summer and is always a great asset to any task. We’ll get him back in the holidays but for now best of luck!

Milestone Alert 🚨

• First announcement this week is for our lovely Michelle who clocked up 50 good deeds this evening! She’s been an amazingly positive force in our group and continues to run, walk and take part in all the tasks despite now being heavily pregnant! We’ll be celebrating at the next social on Tuesday 3rd September for sure!
• Next we had Alex on number 99! She'll be doing the big 100 on her birthday in Hounslow tonight and we can't wait to see her in wings. Always friendly, positive and welcoming to new runners, she often volunteers to back mark and regularly does at least 2 good deeds a week in different places, we're so lucky to have her in Ealing!

So on with the run! After a quick game to warm up we headed out west towards the canal where Jane was ready with all the tools we needed to get the job done.

We had just one patch of clearing left to tackle and we wasted no time is getting to it.

I love this task, it’s so therapeutic!

Elena has been present at every task here over the summer and said she really loves coming and seeing a difference straight away, it’s also a good workout and ripping away all the overgrowth is a great stress release!

After half an hour of pulling, raking, chopping and digging we were done! What great satisfaction seeing a big clearing with all the saplings in full sight with access to the space they new to continue to grow now!

Great job everyone, we’ll be back to do it all again next year!