17 Month Streak
Greenwich
๐Charlton House, Charlton, SE7 8RE
Get fit and do good in Greenwich
Wed 3rd Sep at 6:30pm
Get fit and do good in Greenwich
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Wed 27th Aug at 6:45pm
Wed 20th Aug at 6:45pm
Greenwich Report written by Sunaina Shrestha
This session was a lovely excuse to engage in some nice peaceful gardening.
As a typical city dweller, it can be easy to overlook simple yet impactful acts of garden preservation such as weeding or socialising with people from diverse aspects of life. This mission offered the perfect excuse to do both by gifting us a loving and vibrant atmosphere where people could momentarily escape their hectic routines and dwell upon the peacefulness of reconnection with nature and other humans.
In the end, all we are, are creations of nature meant to connect while helping each other grow like a tall and magnificent sunflower.
On Wednesday evening we gathered at Charlton House, in an unusually negative spin for us at GoodGym - sharing our pet peeves. This evening we were joined by Sunaima and Lisa for their first group runs with us! WE ran to Prince Philip Maritime Collection Centre where Khursheed had a load of tasks for us, including weeding, watering, propping up a giant sunflower, giving the bug hotel a makeover and throwing some rubbish out. Jobs complete some of us ran and some of us walked back to base for a stretch.
Great work everyone!
On Saturday we have gardening at St Richard's and next Wednesday we're back for a Charlton House start to help with the garden at Hervey Road.
Until next time!
Wed 20th Aug at 6:45pm
Sun 27th Jul at 10:15am
Greenwich Report written by Rachel Henry
This morning, seven of us congregated at the coffee shop, most of the group having already good deeded at the junior parkrun (happy 1st birthday Hornfair!)
We enjoyed a leisurely run - much nicer in the slightly cooler weather - to Mycenae Gardens where we met Vic and continued pulling up weeds. Most of them were small but pernicious alkanet and the like but Kerry managed to find a innocuous looking weed, connected to the biggest root I've seen in a while which was making headway on strangling a tree. Satisfying work and makes sense of the title of the report ๐ฅณ๐ช
After a while of weeding, we had a lovely slice of cake and made our way to Pistachio in the park for a nice coffee in the garden. What a treat.
Good luck to Marta on the long run today and Vic on the dog sitting!
On Wednesday we're back at the Memorial Hospital.
Until next time,
Rachel ๐๐๐ผ
Wed 9th Jul at 6:45pm
Greenwich Report written by Rachel Henry
What a glorious evening to be newt and aboot with GoodGym Greenwich! With 13 of us gathered and the sun shining brightly, we set off on a scenic run through beautiful Greenwich Park, with Marta managing to sneak in the final part of her interval training en route!
A happy welcome back to Jia for her second good geed with us!
Our destination was the lovely garden of St Alfegeโs Primary School, where we were met with a list of garden tasks organised by Amanda the Headteacher who popped in to say hello! Between us, we:
๐ฑ Weeded garden beds and turned over the soil
๐ถ Emptied out a boat planter and refilled it with fresh soil
๐ณ Replanted a tree
๐ Emptied and weeded tyre planters, topping them up with fresh compost
๐ฆ Cleared out and organised some storage crates
But, you ask - what's with title of the report? Well, we also found a newt who was very sweet. Ivar may have wanted to adopt him but settled for popping him back in the pond area. One of the cuter amphibians in my opinion and a lovely surprise this evening.
Anyway, with such a great team, the jobs were done in no time and after a group pic we enjoyed a little river run back to base before parting ways for the evening, with that satisfying post-good-deed glow.
St Alfegeโs is starting a monthly community gardening session, so keep an eye out for more tasks coming soon as the school transforms this space for wider community use!
Coming up next...
๐ This Saturday weโre helping set up and close down at the Beats, Boards, and BBQ event in Charlton Park and we have gardening at Hervey Road
๐โโ๏ธ Next Wednesday weโll be meeting at Charlton House for a group run to Brooklands School for more garden work!
Until next time, wonderful people! ๐
Rachel
Sun 27th Jul at 10:15am
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