Shovel, wheelbarrow, shovel, repeat
3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Cardiff
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Friday 21st May 2021
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Nathan Swain
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The wind was howling, the rain was pouring, but it takes more than that for GGC&V to pull out of a task. Nathan, Emma and Andrew headed across to Penarth to meet Friends of Victoria Square who needing help filling their new planters.
After being shown the soil (approx. 3000kg) and the planters, the group spent a good hour shovelling and having a good catch up. Having not seen each other in so long there was so much to catch up on – babies, album releases, new jobs, the merits of burning peat to name a few
This was one of those tasks you knew you’d been on when you got home, a proper work out for the arms and back. And a good start made ready for the second group arriving on Saturday morning to shovel more soil, in hopefully nicer conditions.
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Improving the open space around the Square for the benefit of the community and wildlife.
We are enabling the community volunteers to create, for the benefit of wildlife, wildflower areas, a bog garden, log piles, plant more trees, deadwood hedges and a create community garden to engage the community and provide a resource for social prescribing.
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