GoodGym Tinnie-Blowing finalist 2020
104 Month Streak
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📍Elm Village Open Space (Upper Tier) NW1 0JW
The refurbished area will become a hub for food growing, gardening and wildlife activities
Wed 20th Mar at 6:15pm
AIC's cold weather shelter helps 16 Londoners each and every week - you'll be making sure things are ready and inviting for the evening's guests :)
Read moreSun 17th Mar at 11:00am
Islington Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice
6 Goodgymmers from across the whole of London joined the Friends of Crouch End Open Space for their wonderful monthly volunteer morning, helping with maintaining the forest trails.
https://crouchendopenspace.org/
Together, we met with David, Emma, Glenys and the team in Wood Vale before traipsing along the muddy footpaths between Highgate and Muswell Hill. Our main objectives for the day were to install some organic wooden edging around the main footpaths. Fallen branches, felled trees and logs are perfect for this! The objective is to keep walkers, runners and dogs away from newly planted trees and saplings in Spring.
Half of our team then helped with installing some wire fences towards Crouch End Meadow, installing stakes and wrapping chicken wire in place. Our other team helped with laying some temporary boards (made of donated decking and planks) to help visitors through the muddiest patches of the walkways.
We finished our session with a lovely picnic, hosted by local volunteers. Hot soup, cheese, bread, fruit loaf and cider to celebrate a great job well done.
Wed 13th Mar at 6:15pm
Camden Report written by Alex Murtough (he/him)
I have been scrolling back through the GoodGym guidance.
Become an expert at speed scanning. Through PowerPoints and PDFs, even the odd hard copy document too. My eyes are hurting and my heart is racing. I've had 17 coffees but I think - finally - I must now give up.
I sullenly have to confirm this news.
GoodGym doesn't have any guidance on Borough Theme Tunes...
...but that doesn't mean we can't create some!!
Our wonderful core Camden group of Jackie, John, and Steve had a significant task ahead of us when we arrived at the American International Church last night. We were back to help out at the AIC to set up their winter shelter, which they run from November to March every year.
Between the 4 of us, we had to: a. sweep the large hall ready for the shelter; b. bring in, assemble, and dress 13 beds in the large hall; and c. do the same for 2 beds in the smaller side room.
We'd been moving and working for perhaps 75 seconds before Steve opened Spotify... searched for the music that seems to have accompanied our volunteering for a little while now... and hit play on Dire Straits!
We chatted and worked for 40 minutes, before packing away and looking ahead to next week and our final time at the AIC this season.
Thanks, all, for your work and for a wonderful evening :)
Thu 14th Mar at 11:21am
Excellent report, and a lovely evening, all :)))
Thu 14th Mar at 2:43pm
If Dire Straits are our theme tune, I'm defecting to GreenGym
Wed 13th Mar at 12:00pm
Camden Report written by John Shirley
This week at Castlehaven's Elm Haven garden, we removed tiny trees from the planters, preventing them growing into big trees and stifling the growth of fruit and vegetables, making sure we got them out by the roots.
Mon 18th Mar at 7:10pm
Come and enjoy a variety of interesting activities at this brand new task!
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