When you're in a hole, stop digging!

12 Goodgymers helped their local community in Liverpool
Matthew
Pauline Harrison
Ema Quinn
Jo G
Tafwauli
Claire
Emily Cox
Amy Hughes
Sam Knott
Sarah Wheelton
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Liverpool

Saturday 10th April 2021

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Matthew
Matthew

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Pauline Harrison
Pauline Harrison

PHOTOGRAPHER

Ema Quinn
Ema Quinn

PHOTOGRAPHER

Jo G
Jo G

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This weekend saw another GoodGym visit to the De La Salle School gardening project. The project is aiming to provide training in horticulture and hospitality to pupils and other local young people who might otherwise struggle to gain qualifications, so improving their skills and employment prospects. There's a lot to be done to establish a kitchen garden from scratch, and our two teams of six set to work to shift a huge amount of topsoil for four large vegetable beds, to dig large planting holes (in very stony ground), to plant twelve assorted fruit trees (no Rowan trees though!) in them which will form the framework for the main garden area, and to do some all-important watering of the newly planted trees and bushes. The early team also did a huge amount of litter=picking of the area behind the polytunnels. Welcome to Emily who made this her first GoodGym good deed - we hope to see you again soon! It was also great to see Amy again who has also recruited yet another uni mate Tafwauli into joining GoodGym!

I really should be used to it by now, but I'm always amazed at how much half-a-dozen people can achieve in just an hour or so by working together - such is the power of GoodGym!


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La Sale Hotel School Kitchen Garden
We are starting a kitchen garden for people who live in Croxteth and Norris Green as part of a CIC project to train young people for careers in the hospitality sector.

It is designed to enable young people to be prepared for jobs in hospitality and horticulture by delivering both a working hotel and restaurant and a growing space in the kitchen garden to teach where our food comes from. We are at the beginning of the project.

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