This evening five GoodGym members from Woking helped out at the Dramatize community centre. For the pre-task run Nadia and Wayne met so that Nadia could do her run leader assessment and be observed by Wayne A quick 1 mile to the task and Katie was already waiting, and then we were shortly followed by the rest of the gang, Julie and Alys.

We were greeted by Karen who gave us the briefing with Julie and this was to pull up some old lining and replace it with wood chippings. The team quickly got into gear and had some very satisfying lining pulling progress. We stopped for a quick chocolate cake and water kindly provided by Karen. 🥮

Then we made our way to the chippings heap which smelled of almonds. Some of us were familiar with this from our previous WWF tasks where we knew that Laurel cuttings smell of almond apparently due to cyanide content. It’s so great that we can learn new things about nature with GoodGym. 🌲

We had some nice conversations about what people were getting up to, upcoming holidays and big life events and it was good to catch up with the gang. 💬

Finally we finished the path and it looked completely different and we were chuffed with our work. This garden will continue to be improved so that people who attend Dramatize can benefit from a pleasant outdoor space. 🌾

We said farewell to Karen and the community Centre and spoke about our upcoming tasks, one of which is Knaphill community fridge which we all love and will double up as a mini social for those that can make it. 🍔🍻

Wayne and Nadia ran back to their cars and everybody else went home. Great task well done everyone and see you next time!

*White Rose Lane Nature Reserve *

This morning i joined Charlie from We Act 🌍 and a few of his volunteers at white rose lane nature reserve to pull up Himalayan Balsam which had overgrown in the reserve.

In Total there were 6 of us all gloved up and we were surprised at how quickly it had grown from our previous visit to the reserve, the recent downpours definitely had an impact The Balsam was quite easy to pull up and in no time we had cleared an area and had cleared a pathway 😊

This Wednesday we are meeting at the St John's Lye where we will be running to the Vyne. Nadia will be leading the group run as part of her Run Leader Training run 🏃‍♀️

Have a great weekend all. 😊