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Camden

Wednesday 18th April 2018

Report written by Paul Bown

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33 of Camden's finest helped Skip Garden with some gardening and we leafleted for Green Gym & Kentish Town City Farm

Welcome along to Antonia whose first group run it was last night - lovely to have you along.

In the news this week:

  1. Well done to Shirin who hit 50 Good Deeds last week! Woop woop!
  2. Also a massive well done to Sophie and Steve who represented GG at Manchester Marathon recently, both achieving under 4 hours.
  3. This Sunday is the London Marathon and GoodGym has various cheering squads out and about - have a look here. Myself and 20+ other GoodGymers are running - come along and cheer us on!

Chris' Leaflet Telegram:

This week were leafleting for Green Gym who run local gardening projects in Camden and Kentish Town City Farm who run programs for people 60+ in the local community.

Sunset running

We headed up to Kentish Town. Bumped into Jess (Sophie's mate) on the way there on her bike. Split into two groups, tackled the areas marked on the map around Kentish Town, working our way back down to Castlehaven. Pritesh was at the back, Steve gave a leaflet to some corner lads. Stop.

Skip Garden Report by PB:

We headed over to Skip Garden, through a busy Granary Square (it was like it was the first day of summer or something). Upon our arrival we met Chief Gardener Emma who explained our jobs:

  1. Folding up and loading the yurt onto a van to be moved to the Canada Water site - this provides lots more space in the Garden for activities!
  2. Shovelling soil into small bags so to be easily used around the garden to feed the plants & flowers
  3. Moving the compost ridan out of the way - it's unfortunately broken and will be removed soon, so no more ridan fun.
  4. Moving very heavy pots from inside to outside
  5. Watering the plants - they need feeding

RIP Ridan

After we'd taken a group picture we headed for a run on the sunny canal with two options on the way back, short with Frances or long with me.

I am recovering from London Marathon next week so Pritesh is in charge and you're going to Antrim Allotments - sign up here.

PB out.


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Attendees
Sophie H
Jess
Pritesh Mistry
Steve Coman
Paul Bown
Laura Lambert
John Shirley
Catriona Sibert
Frances Powrie
Meredith Olson
Shirin
Elizabeth Pang
Jill Steinberg
Isabelle Bristow
Hayley Oberlander
Morag Shackerley-Bennett
Kat Kelly
Thomas Samuels
Alex Brown
Anna
Katherine Holdstock
Alex
Hanry Alexander Heatherwick-Lammers
CJ Jessup
Florence
Laurence ROGER
Chris Goldsack
Liz Jordan
Antonia Tanovcheva
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