Anwen Greenaway
Goodgym Coordinator for Oxford. Trail runner, often muddy.
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'I'm not shy of getting muddy! And I like to set myself challenges'.
29 Jan
Oxford
OxClean Spring Clean - Magdalen Wood litter pick
OxClean is an Oxford civic society aiming to reduce the amount of rubbish and waste being left around Oxford. Every year, they organise a Spring Clean to encourage individuals and community groups to muck in and litter pick in any of the problem areas dotted around Oxford.
We have registered a GoodGym Oxford group to go litter picking in Magdalen Wood in Wood Farm on Saturday, 19th March. We will meet at the Atkyns Road/Nuffield Road junction, OX3 8RA and walk as a group (or several smaller groups) from there into the woods.
Litter pickers and refuse sacks will be provided but please do bring your own gardening gloves and wear weather-appropriate footwear.
We will start around 10am from the meeting point so that anyone who wants to run at Parkrun (Horspath or Oxford) beforehand can do so.
We have TWO OxClean sessions this year with this one in Wood Farm and Trevor leading another litter pick in Rose Hill next Saturday afternoon (26th March) too.
Oxford
Preparing Food parcels 9.2.22
We will have 2 tasks tonight. This is the early shift at Oxford Mutual Aid, and there will also be a task for the larger group at Orinoco scrap store in Temple Cowley starting at 6:15pm. It would be possible to do both if you want a full evening of GoodGyming.
We will be based inside Richard Benson Hall preparing food parcels in the food bank and helping the delivery drivers load them into their cars. We will do some restocking of the shelves too if there's time.
Please wear a mask. Anwen will be at the hall from about 4pm, so feel free to turn up any time between 4pm and 4:30pm.
Oxford
Helping at Orinoco Scrap store, Take ii
Orinoco is a charity who’s mission is to banish boredom and save the planet using creativity and play to inspire the reuse of materials.
Over its 25 year history, Orinoco has saved lorry loads of interesting resources from ending up in landfill. They collect suitable waste materials from businesses for potential reuse, including usable garden and workshop tools, small electrical items for repair.
The Orinoco Scrap store sells scrap items for art, crafts, play and creative projects as well as new art materials, refurbished tools and DIY stuff. The Oxford store used to be based in Wood Green but they had to move out last year and have just moved to new premises. Their full relaunch is on Saturday 19th February.
This week we will organise the store, price up stock and put more shelving up.
As always with indoor tasks, please wear a mask.
Meeting locations:
If you would like to run together to Orinoco meet at Richard Benson Hall, 276 Cowley Rd at 6pm. It’s about 1.25 miles to Orinoco. If you would prefer to meet at the location meet us at Templars Square, Pound Way, Oxford, OX4 3XH at 6:15pm. (Will update exact location before the session.)
Oxford
Helping at Orinoco Scrap store
Orinoco is a charity who’s mission is to banish boredom and save the planet using creativity and play to inspire the reuse of materials.
Over its 25 year history, Orinoco has saved lorry loads of interesting resources from ending up in landfill. They collect suitable waste materials from businesses for potential reuse, including usable garden and workshop tools, small electrical items for repair.
The Orinoco Scrap store sells scrap items for art, crafts, play and creative projects as well as new art materials, refurbished tools and DIY stuff. The Oxford store used to be based in Wood Green but they had to move out last year and have just moved to new premises. They will be having a Book event on Saturday 5th February as a ‘soft launch’ ahead of their full relaunch on Saturday 19th February.
This week we will be putting book shelves together and organising the books. Next Wednesday evening we will organise the store, price up stock and put more shelving up.
As always with indoor tasks, please wear a mask.
Meeting locations:
If you would like to run together to Orinoco meet at Richard Benson Hall, 276 Cowley Rd at 6pm. It’s about 1.25 miles to Orinoco. If you would prefer to meet at the location meet us at Templars Square, Pound Way, Oxford, OX4 3XH at 6:15pm. (Will update exact location before the session.)
Oxford
Sunday Run(and Ride)day
A group of GoodGymmers braved the dubious January weather to take on a DIY duathlon - cycling from Oxford to Woodstock and then running around the beautiful grounds of Blenheim. There was enthusiastic consensus for more of the same in future - but perhaps in a warmer month!
Oxford
Making light work of heavy lifting
The return of the Lazy Dogs!
Yesterday afternoon we descended on Boundary Brook Nature Park for a bramble up-rooting session. Boundary Brook is a gorgeous hidden corner of Oxford between the Iffley and Cowley Roads. We've helped out there pretty regularly over the last year or so, laying the gravel path, clearing bramble roots in other areas of the nature reserve, and reprofiling the pond. On Saturday afternoon our task was to prepare the ground for the next project; to build a temporary bird hide from green wood taken from around the nature reserve (a hidden spot for humans to observe birds from, not somewhere for birds to hide out). The hide will go up in the spring, but first the area needed to be de-brambled. The bird hide will be tucked on the edge of a copse with a grassland butterfly meadow in front. The brambles had been chopped down, but as regular GoodGymers will know, the roots can be extensive, and brambles are tenacious and will keep returning unless the roots are dug out.
The tool of choice for bramble roots is the Lazy Dog; expertly modelled in the photos by GoodGym Hero Rachael. 2 lazy dogs between 15 doesn't go far, so spades and forks were also added to the mix and we got to work digging out the knarly roots from all over the meadow, frog spotting as we went.
Team 2 took on the heavy lifting task of moving the green wood from around other parts of the Nature Reserve to the spot where the Bird Hide will be built. 2 or 3 GoodGymers to a log we meandered to and fro along 'our' gravel path getting a surprisingly good weight lifting work out. Anyone else got slightly sore shoulders this morning?!
Swipe through the pictures to see the Bird Hide design. It will be a self-supporting structure made from mostly Ash wood from the Nature Park, with a turf roof and viewing windows at different levels so that everyone from toddlers to the tallest adults can use it to observe the birds.
You can join Oxford Urban Wildlife Group for £5 per year and have unlimited access to Boundary Brook Nature Park. All the details are here.
As discussed while carrying logs: follow @OxThamesSewage on Twitter for alerts when sewage is being released into the Thames.
Oxford
Preparing Food parcels 2.2.22
We will have 2 tasks tonight. This is the early shift at Oxford Mutual Aid, and there will also be a task for the larger group at Orinoco scrap store in Temple Cowley starting at 6:15pm. It would be possible to do both if you want a full evening of GoodGyming.
We will be based inside Richard Benson Hall preparing food parcels in the food bank and helping the delivery drivers load them into their cars. We will do some restocking of the shelves too if there's time.
Please wear a mask. Anwen will be at the hall from about 4pm, so feel free to turn up any time between 4pm and 4:30pm.
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