Manjit Birk

GoodGym Slough

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Manjit BirkPeter Jewell

Peeling with laughter

Monday 25th March

Written by Manjit Birk

It was a much smaller than usual team out tonight helping Ujala Foundation with their community garden. Thank you to Peter and Jean for coming along tonight to help.

Jean and I got there early tonight so we took advantage of the light and went for a mile run around the block and got back just in time as Peter arrived.

Our task owner Gaye was already in the garden waiting for us. It was lovely to see her again. Gaye told us the areas to focus on. The garlic bed!!

You could really smell the garlic as we dug deep and pulled out all the 'hairy' roots! With the fading light we worked as quick as we could and did manage to get one strip of the bed turned over.

We will be back again next week to do some more.

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Ashis ChowdhuryAnna SzulimowskaPam Banga

Tropical Squash

Monday 25th March

Written by Slough runner

5 volunteers met up today despite the drizzle.

Welcome our newest member Anna to the session we hope you enjoyed our task.

Sorted out 20x bags of Summer Clothing in the smallest space ever.

We split up the group so Manjit and Sut went to litter Pick around the car park area. We used the opportunity to help towards the Great British Spring Clean https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/great-british-spring-clean-15th-31st-march

Thank you for your help!

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The King(fisher) has fallen, long live the King(fisher)

Sunday 24th March

Written by Slough runner

Our first job today was to rescue the vandalised Kingfisher sculptures one of which had been thrown into the stream.

We then split into two teams, one team coppicing the Hazel trees, with Phil from friends of Haymill branching out to slash the greenery back from encroaching on the path. The coppicing team included Sheila who is handy with a saw and loppers.

Team two split into sub teams with Pepsi and Jenny donning waders and starting to build a more natural second dam and Bob and Jen chopping down more branches to act as stakes for the dam.

We even managed to fit a litter pick in too so a good morning all round with a great workout.

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KeithSamuel Tucker

Weed had a lot of fun at the allotments

Saturday 23rd March

Written by Manjit Birk

Well done to our Saturday community missioners Samuel, Jen and Keith for helping Raggy Rd allotments team on our first ever task with them.

The team arrived to a plot that was covered in hairy weeds and looked like a little sleeping monster! After digging up the weeds and rotavating the soil, clearing rubbish and removing a fence then finally adding compost they were done! A pat on the back for making the plot look less thick and ready for the Raggy Rd team to use with their service users.

Also a huge congratulations to Samuel on his 200th good deed!

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Manjit Birk
Agnija Cimoska

Be a #litterhero everyday

Monday 18th March

Written by Manjit Birk

Back for its ninth year, the Great British Spring Clean is the nations biggest mass-action environmental campaign.

The Great British Spring Clean and Great Big School Clean 2024 will take place from 15 - 31 March, and tonight was our efforts to help as the Slough #LitterHeroes

For Keep Britain Tidy's 70th year we pledged to pick up 70 items in 70 minutes today...and we might even pledge to collect 70 bags till the 31st! #PlatinumPledge

Waste no time

So as Hamid and I went for a 2 lap run of the park, our Dumpster Divas (Jen, Ruth and Agnija) got started on counting their rubbish!

The good news is we didn't find any Retro Rubbish - (rubbish that is years old and still causing harm to our environment today, releasing greenhouse gases as it slowly breaks down in our soil and water, which contributes to the climate crisis)!

What we did find was nappies!, lottery tickets, fast food trash, beer cans and plenty of wet wipes!

We ended the evening having collected 5 bagfuls of rubbish tallying in at over 1000 pieces

We would like to continue with this effort so I have listed a litter pick community mission till the 31st of March - #GetInvolved!

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Manjit BirkPeter Jewell
Devajani Sengupta

Let's altar your pew on us....

Monday 11th March

Written by Manjit Birk

Tonight's task has a theme going through it...and I'll give you a pew to what it is!

When I checked the sign up list last night and only I was signed up, I did have a momentary panic so I sent a little note on the whatsapp group to see if anyone else could join me...luckily both Peter and Sara were able to come along...pew for that.

I knew Leonie (our task owner would be present), so I wasn't too phased if I did have to do the task alone, however it's always good to have some company.

Our meet up point was Upton Court Park at 6.30pm with the option of a walk or run down to the Church. Only Peter met me at the park, the rest of the team made their own way to the Church (on time)...on arrival we did see a few people lingering around the entrance so I personally was very grateful to have Peter and Hamid (who was now with us too) to wait with....a blessing in disguise!

We were soon joined by Devajani so were ready to go inside to see what our task was.

Leonie explained that they had a concert on Sunday and needed some help with sweeping the floors, vacuuming the altar, cleaning the pews and the entrance area....and a little bit of high dusting!

We had a web of laughter as we chatted, caught up on our weekly antics and cracked on with the task in hand.

Peter and Hamid took to the sweeping duties like pro's whilst Sara was on hoovering and Devajani and I took a pew.

It is always amazing how quickly and efficiently we can all work and get the task done. Within 50 minutes we had swept, hoovered and wiped. Then Hamid took the longest duster we have ever seen and cleared away cobwebs that had most likely been hanging around for years! And that's no web of lies! But pew we did it!

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