Working on the trees didn't sap our energy!

10 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lewisham
Dom Tooze
Emily
Martin Wilcockson
Clare Griffiths
Sophie
Iitmari
George Woolfrey
Darryl Chamberlain
Jacqueline Francis
Maria Ahmed
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Lewisham

Saturday 20th July 2019

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Darryl Chamberlain
Darryl Chamberlain

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Hilly Fields isn’t just famous for its fiendish parkrun and amazing views across London. It also has a row of beautiful trees in its northeastern corner. The Friends of Hilly Fields recently planted some more to ensure this side of the park stays green. After a year, the saplings needed a bit of TLC to allow them to breathe and grow. Time to get GoodGym on the case!

Ten of southeast London's finest GoodGymmers - some fresh from parkrun (or as fresh as you can be on a very muggy morning) - met Rachel from the Friends of Hilly Fields. Our task was to clear the weeds around the saplings and put some mulch around them. We started wondering if anyone had any sun cream, then an hour into the task, nature started to take care of the next part of the task - watering! And in some style... But after a flurry of forking out the weeds and some determined work with the wheelbarrow to get fetch the mulch, we made a corner of Hilly Fields look a lot greener and healthier. It was great to meet Rachel and satisfying to get so much done.

The Friends are always looking for help - if you'd like to get involved, visit hilly.org.uk or search for "Hilly Fields, SE4" on Facebook, and you too can help give the Hilly Fields parkrunners of the future a bit more tree cover.



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Adele Prince

Sat 20th Jul 2019 at 10:16pm

Brilliant! What a great run report :) Excellent work at the task everyone, great teamwork.

Darryl Chamberlain

Sat 20th Jul 2019 at 10:28pm

Thank you!

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