Wat-er lot of shovelling

An amazing 39 GoodGymers ran between 6-7km to help Skip Garden & St Luke's Community Centre!

Welcome along to newbies Alex, Jamie and Innie - great to have you along!

In the news this week:

1. It's London Marathon this weekend and around 15 GoodGymers will be running it. We'll have two cheer points in Canary Wharf and outside Somerset House, go along and support. Detail here.
2. It's the GG Olympics on 10th June, we want you take part for Camden and you can sign up here and as Pritesh mentioned feel free to let your inner artist free and get designing for the GG Camden Flag!

St Luke's Report:

Pritesh and Chris led 14 GoodGymers to St Luke's Community Centre, technically in Islington but don't tell... The group enjoyed a lovely 3.5km run to the task in lovely sunny but cool weather.

Out of Camden - oooops

St Luke's Community Centre provides a number of services for young and old people, has a counselling service and an early dementia service - plus they help grow their local community! Both GoodGym Camden and Islington having been helping them fill planters and prepare the garden for the Spring and Summer. This evening's work was vital in helping them prepare for an event on Saturday.

Once there, the team set about completing the work on the final planter. First we turned the existing soil before adding compost. In the meantime another group set about watering the various completed planters ensuring that all the plants had their thirst quenched. After this we got everyone together to finish off the planter splitting the group to be shovelling, wheelbarrowing or spreading the topsoil layer.

With everything complete and our heckling locals (they were just kids) content we posed for a group photo before warming ourselves with a swift run back to base.

Skip Garden report:

The 24 of us headed the 1.5km to Skip Garden which is based in Granary Square. This is a cracking task that we love to come to regularly.

Once we arrived we were welcomed by Emma who explained Global Generation, who run Skip Garden, are an educational charity, which works together with local children and young people, businesses, residents and families in Camden, Islington and Southwark to create healthy, integrated and environmentally responsible communities.

Snap Shovel Election

We split into three teams and did the following:

1. Moved some planters and watered the garden.
2. Shovelled and lifted bags of soil to replace where the planters used to be.
3. Turned, sieved and workws a rather smelly Ridan (other composters are available) aka the compost machine

Once we finished our task we headed to the canal for a 3km run along the pretty waterway. Lovely stuff.

Thanks for everyone to coming along. Sign up to next week here, we're off to help Antrim Allotments.

PB out.