On Sunday, Ben and Katie joined the team at Effra Green Streets to help maintain their lovely community green spaces. After a warm welcome from Jon, Nick and the rest of the volunteers, we prepared the ground, planted dozens of native hedge whips, and covered them with a good layer of mulch to keep the weeds at bay. A kind resident who was clearly impressed with our hard manual labour popped by with some delicious chocolate-covered plums - an underrated snack for sure. The plums powered our next efforts - clearing a big pile of garden waste ready for chipping, and sowing wildflower seeds.

Busy Wednesday for VGCC, two big deliveries and one donation. All for Friday and future community support. A good session where I got to know VGCC supporters, learned a thing or two about VGCC background and plenty of friendly chitchat while preparing to make a impact.

Quite morning handling VGCC tasks, working hard with Melvin. Prepped and ready for Friday. Its good knowing you are helping those in need of support during the cold season.

Hello GoodGymmers! 👋🏼

This week's task was a little different. Yianny, Tilly, Fi, Adam, Nicole and Amona braved the rain 🌧️ to run (or walk!) to Holy Trinity and get everything ready for next week's People's Emergency Briefing screening and event. 🎬🌍

Not much heavy lifting this time, but it was a proper mental workout! 🧠 Between the soggy feet 🧦💦 and the real chill in the air 🥶, we needed every last cuppa ☕ and cookie 🍪 to power through. Fuelled by biscuits, we didn't crumble under pressure. 😂

The result? We're locked and loaded for next week, with a real chance to make a big difference for collective action on climate change locally. 🙌🏼🌱 Seems the forecast for next week is looking bright, even if this week's was a total washout! ☀️

Huge thanks to everyone for turning up, getting drenched and still smiling. You're all un-brolly-vable! 💪🏼🥰

See you at the next one! 🏃🏽‍♀️🍾

On arrival to the centre, we packed eggs in multiple sized boxes for different sized families. The Felix project van arrived moments later wit a large delivery of fruit and veg which we promptly put away in the fridge. We then spent the rest of the session slicing squash and watermelon and wrapped them in cling film, ready for Friday's distribution. All in all good session and great work by everyone

Received deliveries from City Harvest and Tesco and took stock for this Friday's customers.