Anwen Greenaway

The Ark-T centre have a Summer Celebration event on Friday 15th July and have asked for some help getting the gardens ready.

They need some help sprucing up and installing some items in the playspace for the sensory garden, including putting together a solar-powered water feature. There are also some planters that need a bit of tlc, and some signs to be designed, painted and put up, a wigwam to paint in funky colours, plus we'll give the pathway a good sweep and scrub, trim the trees back, and tidy up the mud kitchen area.

As always, bring your gardening gloves, and if you're up for a bit of painting then wear clothes you don't mind getting some paint splatters on.

Meeting options:
* Anyone wishing to run to the task as a group please meet in the car park of the Richard Benson Hall, 276b Cowley Rd at 6pm. There won’t be a bag drop available but we can use the toilets there. It's a little over a mile to Ark-T from there.
* If you would prefer to meet at the task please meet us at 6:15pm at the Ark-T Centre playspace garden.

Oxford City Farm are planning a Drop in morning and pop up cafe and have requested some help from GoodGym. There will be tea and cake, seed gathering, and other activities around the farm. We’ll help run the cafe, welcome visitors and assist with other activities around the farm.

This session will offer an opportunity for people of all ages to come and enjoy the farm, meet and feed the animals, and have a cup of tea.

Please bring your own gardening gloves just in case there are gardening jobs to do.

Directions: The City Farm is tucked away behind the Isis Court Care Home on the Iffley Road end of Cornwallis Road.

Marston Community Garden cooperative includes a community allotment, flower garden, the Forest Garden, a chicken coup, an orchard and a new Community Wood on New Marston Recreation Ground, plus much more. We have a few visits planned through the summer, so you'll be getting familiar with a lot of it!

This week we will be at the flower garden weeding existing beds and digging over more areas for planting.

Bring your gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

Meeting locations:
If you would like to join a group run to the task location please meet at 5:45pm outside East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, OX4 1DD. Please note the community centre is now closed for redevelopment so we won’t have access for toilets etc. It is approximately 2 miles to Marston Community Allotment from there.
If you prefer to meet at the task meet at the Boults Lane Recreation Ground entrance to Court Farm Allotments at 6:15pm. OX3 0NT

One of the Trustees of Littlemore Village Hall met us when we were gardening at Flo's on May Day, and has subsequently got in touch to ask for help tidying up the village hall garden.

In exchange for some GoodGym weeding and pruning they will supply tea, coffee, and homemade cake. Surely that's everything we need to tempt us beyond the ring road?!

Please bring your own gardening gloves. Tools will be supplied.

I (Anwen) will be planning on running Horspath parkrun that morning if anyone wants to meet there first.