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Saturday 27th January
Charlie Lay earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.
Charlie completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Charlie was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.
Saturday 27th January
Charlie Lay completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym.
Charlie is a now a pretty committed GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the fifth time
Sat 27th Jan at 10:30am
Oxford Report written by Anwen Greenaway
GoodGym have a lovely partnership with Boundary Brook Nature Park which goes back a few years. We've done a whole variety of tasks around the site, from reprofiling the pond, to building yards and yards of gravel path, litter picking and digging out bramble roots, to possibly our creepiest task to date - clearing the rubbish out of the abandoned sheds on the edge of the allotments.
Our January 2024 session at BB saw us getting stuck in (the mud) digging out bramble roots to try and stop them spreading further into the meadow area. Lazy dogs, forks, spades and plenty of brute force were the order of the day as we competed to dig out the biggest bramble root (some disagreement on whether length or girth were more important!). Working away, discarding layers as the sun broke through the clouds, getting thoroughly covered in mud, we ended up chatting away about all kinds of assorted topics including giant edible dormice, the current tally of GoodGym babies, the goats at Oxford City Farm, and how much Charlie has in common with a Disney princess with his knack of attracting wildlife to him (a frog, robin, cockchafer beetle grubs).
We always enjoy a couple of hours at Boundary Brook, so we'll look forward to some more path-building in the spring!
Welcome to GoodGym Susanna :-)
Thu 10th Aug 2023 at 7:00pm
Wed 12th Jul 2023 at 6:00pm
Oxford Report written by Anwen Greenaway
Tiny Forest brings the benefits of woodland right into the heart of our cities and urban spaces: connecting people with nature, helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change, as well as providing nature-rich habitat to support urban wildlife.
Earthwatch is pioneering Tiny Forest in the UK and is conducting a UK-wide research study to help us understand how these super tiny woods have the potential to be super powerful.
Last night Earthwatch Europe launched their Lottery funded partnership with GoodGym at the Littlemore Tiny Forest.
A couple of years ago 600 saplings were planted in a patch of ground 200 metres square (roughly the size of a tennis court), and the plot is now a lovely baby woodland at the end of a wild flower patch.
Earthwatch are collecting data on biodiversity, carbon storage, flood mitigation and thermal comfort in the Tiny Forest in order to see how the scheme could help in urban areas. 100 of the 600 trees in the Littlemore Tiny Forest have been tagged to be regularly monitored, and these were the main focus of our citizen science.
Dividing into trios we made our way around the site checking that the trees were correctly identified in the database, measuring height and girth, and counting the number of stems for multi-stem trees. It turned out to be a very satisfying task - particularly tracking down the last few elusive tagged trees! We managed to find and monitor 58 trees in under an hour.
Other experiments made observations on water soak away and thermal comfort. Tracking the changes over the next few years will be very interesting.
Welcome to GoodGym Mark and Jac. Great to have a visitor from the central team Theresa.
Thu 13th Jul 2023 at 3:06pm
Lovely to see you all - Thank you for the warm welcome
Sun 16th Jul 2023 at 1:07pm
Fantastic stuff! Glad to see so many goodgymers getting involved with tiny forests!
Tue 18th Jul 2023 at 11:04am
well done all, great work
Sunday 11th June 2023
Charlie Lay run a race with GoodGym for the first time.
Charlie has done their first race with GoodGym. Performing on the day is a lot of pressure; Charlie's dealt with the nerves and turned up on the day to make it happen.
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