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Helping restore a walled garden in Newton St Loe
🗓Saturday 11:00am

📍left turn at the top of the Pennyquick hill. Continue along the road for 100m, then its the turning on left before the high wall that runs along the road. BA2 9DA

Help restore a garden used by people with anxiety, depression and isolation

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Ruth signed up to a community mission.

Sat 14th Sep at 11:00am

Helping restore a walled garden in Newton St Loe

Help restore a garden used by people with anxiety, depression and isolation

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Ruth
Ruth signed up to a community mission.

Tue 24th Sep at 6:30pm

Helping First Steps Nursery prepare their garden ahead of winter

Improve the children's garden to enable them to enjoy the space

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Ruth signed up to a community mission.

Sun 22nd Sep at 7:00am

Marshalling the Circuit of Bath walk

Helping out with a major fundraising event to help homeless and socially excluded people across the Southwest

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Ruth went on a group run

Tue 13th Aug at 6:30pm

‘If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden’ - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Bath Report written by Kate

8 Goodgymers spent their evening at one of their more regular haunts dubbed on the website as ‘a Secret Garden’ (in Widcombe). No, it’s not THE Secret Garden, you won’t find Mary Lennox playing there. Rather, it’s an old Baptist Burial Ground looked after by The Bath Preservation Trust, cheery! (It is actually quite lovely).

As a few GoodGymers ran their way to the Garden/Burial Ground, discussions were had around what our tasks today would be, as we had a larger group than normal. Would we or wouldn’t we be removing bind weed and brambles? How do we feel about pulling up bind weed and brambles? Suffice to say, and you won’t be surprised, we did pull up an abundance of bind weed and chopped down many a bramble. Some of us felt sad for said plants, I suppose they’d gone to all that effort to choke the life out of the other plants, and bind weed flowers look pretty. The brambles were even showing off their bounty of blackberries. We mused about uses for bind weed: could we fashion a rope? Did it have medicinal properties? Interestingly the leaves do contain a molecule that can treat hypertension and is also known to be a diuretic, among other things… so not all bad! (Thank you Wikipedia) The flowers are also important for sweat bees! (I’ll let you research those and no it’s not a typo).

But I digress… all GoodGymers assembled we took to the task assigned, with gusto, and as usual we cleared a sizeable space of bind weed and brambles within our allotted hour. Making light work of it if I do say so myself. Richard, Jerr and Ruth even managed to remove a blanket of the stuff; allowing flora and fauna underneath to be free and to grow and prosper, until the bind weed and brambles take hold again, and we will be back in a year clearing the same area! We will be ready!

Another good evening’s work team! Till next month at the not so secret, secret garden.

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Meyrick Williams

Sat 17th Aug at 10:09am

Excellent report!!!

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Tue 13th Aug at 6:30pm

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Sun 7th Jul at 1:00pm

Need a little space? GoodGym comes to the rescue

Bath Report written by Ruth

Odd Down let its hair down today as fairground rides and stalls took over the sports ground for its annual community fun day.

GoodGym were called in to help make sure that chaos didn’t reign in the car park. Mary was deployed spotting spaces while Ruth’s authoritative pointing seemed to have little effect on drivers determined to park as close to the venue as possible. The GoodGymers got very creative at inventing new spaces.

Wise words from Mary who warned that we must make sure there’s room for a fire engine to get through. Two minutes later a fire engine actually turns up! It came past safely, although it did have to negotiate the motorists trying to get the nearest spots. Fortunately it was one of the attractions, not sent to deal with an unfortunate disaster at the fun day.

We even managed to help with a bucket collection for three charities - Julian House, Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Odd Down Community Association, while we worked. ODCA gives grants to local charities eg paying for kit for the walking football group, funding plants for a team wanting to brighten up part of the area and supporting youth sessions for children on the edge.

All in all a good job well done - and to cap it all Mary took home a posy (because she’s worth it).

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Sat 29th Jun at 11:00am

We've only bean and dung it!

Bath Report written by Ruth

On a sunny Saturday in June, five Goodgymers, including Jason and David from Bristol, potted up to the walled garden at Newton St Loe for a session involving manure, weeds and a lot of broad beans.

We are regulars at the site. It is being transformed into a haven by the charity Grow for Life for people with anxiety, depression and isolation. They learn gardening and horticultural skills in a peaceful environment that can help them build confidence and perhaps even get jobs or set up their own businesses.

Whenever we visit we are astonished at the progress on the garden and this time was no exception. Summer had come with flowers in bloom across the site, the heady aroma of sweet peas, the pungent smell of sage and more. It seemed everywhere was bursting into flower and it was very much the safe, peaceful place that Grow for Life dreamed of.

It is, of course, the result of a lot of hard work, which brings us to our task. Our first job was to tackle some magnificent broad bean bushes. Planted last October, they had already produced a number of crops.. We had to harvest the remaining beans (except for one bush that was to be left) and then strip down the rest of the plant to form a green layer in the compost section we helped create last time we were in Newton St Loe. Secateurs at the ready, I've never put so much effort into preparing greenery for a compost heap - nor have I tried a raw broad bean before. Encouraged by Grow for Life's Wayne - it wasn't bad at all.

Then came a wheelbarrow trip to the stables next door to collect some horse manure to form the brown layer to the compost pile. Wayne was very excited that his previous pile was 70 degrees - allowing the compost to do its compost thing I suppose.

We rounded the session off with some serious weeding at the north wall. A useful tip from Wayne - weeds are the plants we don't like the look of.

We didn't go home empty handed - a posy of sweet peas and a handful of broad beans went down very nicely.

Thanks to Goodgymers Emily, Sarah, David and Jason plus Grow for Lifers Chris, Joel, Jane and Wayne.

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Jason Thorne

Sun 30th Jun at 8:19pm

Great report and a great morning

Jason Thorne

Sun 30th Jun at 8:28pm

David, didn't realise it was your 400th! Fantastic

David Head

Mon 1st Jul at 6:56am

Amazing place and people. Great to meet sone of you at GG Bath.

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