Wednesday 30th April
Written by Sarah W
Tomorrow Welling Station will celebrate its 130th birthday and 200 years of the railway.
Tonight we ran, walked and cycled to the station to help with final preparations for their party.
First we swept ๐งน๐งน๐งน the approach road where stalls and displays will be put up. So many cigarette butts!
Then we sealed goody bags that will be given to winners of a competition to design railway-themed posters ๐. All the lovely entries are on display in the ticket hall. We hope passengers will pause to appreciate them as they pass through the area.
Next, we pinned flyers promoting local community organisations onto a noticeboard that will be on display at the Discover Welling stand ๐๐๐. Of course, we included some GoodGym leaflets!
And we watered the flowerbeds ๐ป๐ท.
It was great to have Julie with us for her first GoodGym task. Having worked with us through Discover Welling on many tasks, we're thrilled to have you as part of the GG team.
The station team could not have been more welcoming and friendly. They've worked really hard to put up bunting, stuff goody bags ready to give away to travelers, and get things looking fab.
Happy birthday Welling Station ๐๐ฅณ!
Monday 28th April
Written by Ashton Martin
Fast though the grass and I had a blast. I did a few hours litter picking today because the sun was shining and not a cloud in sky and I went litter picking and done Birling road and colyers walk ans did I think 8 bags and I got a before and after pics of a bus stop on colyers lane so I can say the bus stop got busted # good gym Bexley good gym Greenwich for helping me get to my 50 deed โค๏ธ
Sunday 27th April
Written by Bexley runner
I had a good time sorting out donations this Sunday morning in the company of James from the Community Hospice warehouse team who put on some great music and the time just flew by. It didn't feel like a 3 hours tasks at all.
Today's theme: Disney tops, hoodies and trousers. I also found 2 sets of piggy slippers ๐ท๐ท and a few fun tops.
Cleared a whole cage of bags, and started a second one ๐ฅ.
Thank you, Goodgym, for this task and the opportunity.
Saturday 26th April
Written by Sarah W
In glorious sunshine it was a task of two halves at the Community Hospice gardens this morning.
Working on the children's outdoor play area, some of us pulled up a weed membrane to allow the soil underneath to return to nature. It took heavy-duty effort and a coordinated approach to get it up. A proper workout ๐ช๐ช๐ช.
Elsewhere we set about tidying up the overgrown flower bed to give a better view of the play area from the rest of the garden. After taking out a couple of shrubs and clearing the dead parts of last year's growth, we removed some substantial stones that had once been laid to create a kind-of rockery. More muscle power ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ!
Then, that's the idea of GoodGym, using our workouts to make a difference.
Shout out to Ashton as this was his 50th good deed. What a fab achievement in just six months since he joined ๐ฅณ๐ !
This was the perfect session for GoodGym's partnership with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, getting out in nature while giving it a helping hand.
There's still plenty more to do to help Jason, the Hospice's head gardener, realise his plans to transform the grounds, so we'll be back again on the fourth Saturday of each month. Do come along and join us.
Wednesday 23rd April
Written by Sarah W
Tonight we made a return visit to Hurst Community Centre, this time to clear leaves from the outdoor area used by the nursery school.
It was a proper workout raking the soggy leaves into piles, scooping them into bags, and moving the bags aside for disposal.
Thirty five bags in fact!
It was a lovely evening to be outdoors and we worked hard to finish the job in just an hour. Now it's ready for the nursery children to enjoy tomorrow.
After posing for a group photo we headed off.
It was to fab to have Greg with us, welcome to GoodGym and congrats on your first good deed ๐.
This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.
Saturday 19th April
Written by Sarah W
A few weeks ago one of our GoodGymers, Robert, pointed out a litter trap in a patch of shrubs along a footpath near his home in Welling. Today we teamed up with Julie from Discover Welling to tidy it up, then we planned to plant some bulbs in nearby flowerbeds.
Robert was away so couldn't join us, but with our litter-picking champion Ashton on the case we got the rubbish cleared up super-quickly... or so we thought!
Just as we were ready to move on to the gardening, we spotted an empty cider can lodged in one of the thorny bushes. A closer look revealed loads more empty cans - mostly all the same brand of cider - stashed into the bush. It was incredible.
Julie set off to plant the bulbs, but we decided to tackle the cans instead. While Johnny fished them out from the top, Ashton and I worked to pull them out from the bottom.
As we extracted them more and more clattered down through the branches. It was like coins cascading out of a slot machine!
We removed over 100 cans but will need to go back with a longer litter pick to reach the final few hiding deep in the prickly shrub.
Alongside the three bags full of cans, we filled three bags with other rubbish - including the usual food packaging, a shoe, a sock, and a very, large heavy loudspeaker.
It was a satisfying result, knowing that we'd refreshed this small patch of nature.
If there's a litter hotspot that you'd like some help tidying up, please get in touch.
This task was part of GoodGym's collaboration with WWF's Workout For Nature initiative, encouraging us all to get out in nature while giving it a helping hand.
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