Mulch ado about nothing

30 Goodgymers helped their local community in York
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Michal Czekajlo
Antonia Van Koeverden
Cara Organ
Andy Richardson
Vicky Hearson
Mitch
Paul Kelly
Bec
Ben Dove
Jenna Drury
Nicola Gover
Nicky Woodall
Harriet
Stefan Durkin
Aidan Kettle
Leanne
Dom Tooze
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York

Monday 31st January 2022

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Nicky Woodall
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👋An amazing brigade of 30 good people (how we were kindly described by a task owner recently) gathered on a chilly but dry Monday evening for our final group run of January, thereby ensuring that we reached (and surpassed!) our January Challenge targets (having already smashed our distance target). A huge thank you to everyone who's got involved in any way this month, you're all heroes 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♀️

💡Anyway, back to tonight. After hearing about everyone's GoodGym-related highlights of January (which involved both races and various delicacies provided at tasks), we warmed up and jogged/walked down to West Bank Park. Being slightly early, we caught Kristina by surprise and so helped unload the van and sort the tools into batches to go with each group 🌳

🍂We had teams shovelling and wheelbarrowing from the infamous mud mountain while another group did the same distributing top soil onto raised beds. Another group were organising the leaf compost, turning it and also matching levels of leaf/mulch decomposition to decide what leaves should go where! And we had another posse of volunteers clearing leaves from the paths to make them less slippy and more accessible 🍁

📸After much hard work and productivity, it was time to gather our teams from all four corners of the park to return the tools and snap a group photo. We then did a quick fitness activity before heading back to base for celebratory biscuits and shortbread 🍪


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West Bank Park
Public park with play areas, woodland, wildflower meadow, pond, orchards and open green space

Provide the public with green open space and play facilities

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Rachel
Rachel (she/her)

Tue 1st Feb 2022 at 12:19am

I'm truly in awe of all GG York have achieved in the January challenge! 🏆

Nicky Woodall
Nicky Woodall (she/her)

Tue 1st Feb 2022 at 7:03am

That's really kind, thank you Rachel 😁

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