Sage advice from the neighbours

11 Goodgymers helped their local community in Southwark
Alex Bowring
Benjamin Crouch
Jess Cowie
Laura Grant
Daryl Shaw
Nelly
Emma McNally
Lindy Macfarlane
David
Sophie Cavanagh
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Southwark

Wednesday 5th June

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Last night 11 goodgymmers went to Elmington community gardens to help out. Sophie , David, Lindy, Nelly, Daryl and Alex met me at Old Spike to run there together. We did a quick warm up followed by an ice breaker question before setting off. The ice breaker this week was "What rhymes with woodchip?", which was surprisingly hard! We took the hilly route to Elmington community gardens, during which Daryl shared that he is the Strava local legend of Chadwick road! 👏

We arrived at the wildlife triangle just as Emma was walking her bike up the road and Laura was already there. Benjamin soon arrived on his fancy new bike. Catalina from Elmington community gardens split us up into groups and put us to work.

Daryl, Benjamin and Alex did pruning in one section of the estate. Sophie and Nelly did weeding nearby. Meanwhile, Emma, Jess and Lindy planted some wildflowers and weeded. And Laura and David did some pruning nearby. I floated in between, doing some litter picking.

Before we left, we tidied up after ourselves, putting the cuttings into the compost heap and then did the group photo. We were just about to leave... only to realise that Laura had been held up by a friendly neighbour, and had missed the group photo! After group photo number 2, we set off, most of us coming back to Old Spike, and onwards to our social in Peckham Rye park. 🌳


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Members and volunteers of Elmington Estate have setup a community garden at the The Wildlife Triangle on Brisbane Street to transform this lawn into a wildlife garden.

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