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Wed 14th Oct at 6:00pm
Barnet Report written by Victoria R (she/her)
On Wednesday evening, George, Paul and Victoria headed to the Phoenix Cinema to join local community members for a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing, an event that GoodGym Barnet helped bring to life.
The People’s Emergency Briefing is designed to be shown at community screenings, encouraging conversations between local residents and highlighting how much people within these communities care about the climate emergency. This screening sold out, bringing a full house together for the climate conversation.
Several Barnet-based community groups, including Barnet Friends of the Earth, Finchley CND, Chipping Barnet Foodbank, Barnet U3A and many more, attended the screening and took part in discussions afterwards, sharing their reactions to the film, their concerns about the climate emergency, and ideas for addressing the challenges ahead.
Afterwards, much of the group headed to The Bald Faced Stag for drinks, further conversation, and a bit of community building. George and Victoria even shared their thoughts to help Dave McCormick - who compered the event with Silvana Kohon - write a report on the event for The Archer.
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Fri 16th Oct at 9:33am
Thank you, Victoria, for this report & for the record, I have written to my MP as requested. Here is that letter.. Dear David, I recently attended a packed screening of The People's Emergency Briefing at the Phoenix Cinema. The evidence presented by leading experts was compelling and deeply troubling. The discussion afterwards showed just how moved people were, but also how uncertain we are about what to do next. For several years, through GoodGym Barnet, I've been involved in improving our local green spaces, planting trees and helping establish Tiny Forests. I've watched young trees struggle through drought, sometimes die, and seen volunteers do their best to keep them alive. It's a small example of the much bigger environmental crisis we're facing, but also of what communities can achieve together. I remember watching a news report many years ago in which scientists agreed on the seriousness of global warming. I thought this would be a turning point, almost like a declaration of a national emergency, demanding fundamental changes to how we live. Yet the next day, life simply carried on as before. The longer we delay, the harder those changes will become. I'm now at a point where I'm prepared to accept that my own consumer habits and lifestyle may need to change significantly for the greater good. During Covid, we demonstrated that society can make extraordinary collective changes when necessary. Of course, there are consequences for businesses, employment and people's livelihoods. These must be understood and addressed fairly. But surely we have to start having that honest national conversation. We need leadership that sets an example, listens to different perspectives and acts with humility, transparency and urgency. Not more political point-scoring or promises that everything can continue as before. Will you support the call for a government-led national emergency briefing, presented by independent experts, and help begin an honest public conversation about the changes we need to make? Many of us are already doing what we can in our communities. We need to see the same commitment at a national level. Kind regards, Paul Salman
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Fri 16th Oct at 12:00pm
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Paul Salman went on a community mission
Mon 12th Oct at 9:45am
Barnet Report written by George Ttoouli (he/him)
Another fun start to the week, Paul, Gus and I rocking up early. But the Brent Cross traffic had the lovely delivery team from Volunteers on Wheels stuck at a crawl and they only arrived just before 11am. Undeterred, we went at it double time, running trolleys down the ramp, unloading the van and pushing things back up to the shop team to sort. And then we were done, though I stuck around for 15min more to help move some produce into the stores.
This week we saw: leeks, potatoes, butternut soups, smoothies, bottled and canned drinks, mushrooms (inc. mushrooms growing on mushrooms, which had to be discarded but were a nice ecological novelty!), sweet potatoes, soda bread and a lot more I missed in the speed. Some of it will be going in stores for their big first birthday party celebrations this Wednesday, so they can give things away as raffle prizes and have extra on hand for the increased visitors. We'll be popping along around lunchtime!
Paul Salman went on a community mission
Sun 11th Oct at 11:00am
Barnet Report written by Paul Salman
GoodGym Barnet – Barnet Climate Action Week tiny forest Barnet
A beautiful day to get together at Mutton Brook as part of Barnet Climate Action Week, combining a little practical work, citizen science and a chance to introduce more people to our local Tiny Forests.
Starting at 11am, Richard and Subhamboth local residents, were already on site and quickly got stuck into some litter picking after a chat about the four Tiny Forests.
The original Tiny Forest is now well established, but the three newer forests have endured a brutal summer and are showing signs of stress, with some struggling trees and plenty of weeds.
These three forests are particularly interesting because each has a different soil preparation method. Looking up the slope, the middle plot uses biochar, the right-hand plot follows the standard Miyawaki method, and the left-hand plot uses a simpler, no-dig approach incorporating cardboard. On general inspection, the middle biochar forest appears to be showing the strongest growth, although proper measurements will tell us more. Victoria said Yes lots of fun. Like high school science class again haha!
’innovative approach to growing trees with the help of biochar was recently featured on BBC Countryfile at Blenheim Palace on 1 February 2026. You can find out more on BBC iPlayer.https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qwy0
Roman & Victoria were both new to the Tiny Forest project and got stuck into our citizen science work, identifying trees, recording their positions along a transect and measuring their diameters. This helps us monitor growth and understand their potential for carbon capture. We’ll share the data with Earthwatch and hopefully continue these measurements over the coming months.
It was also a lovely opportunity to chat about our local community and the wider work GoodGym gets involved with, supporting green spaces, community groups and projects that encourage people to get outdoors and take practical action.
And, as has become something of a GoodGym tradition, we rounded things off with a little frisbee throwing and a runaround for anyone who fancied it!
A big thank you to everyone who came along. A lovely mix of practical volunteering, learning something new and enjoying our local green spaces together. That’s what GoodGym is all about!
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Sun 11th Oct at 8:27pm
And some very forestorative action it was too!
Sun 11th Oct at 8:38pm
It was great to be part of it It felt good to help nature and make a positive difference
Tue 13th Oct at 4:39pm
I learned that it is very fun to measure trees and film spiders!
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Sun 18th Oct at 11:00am
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