Bulb Planting Event 🍀

This evening Woking GG headed to Brookwoods Memorial Halls to clear an area behind the hall for a bulb planting event. 🌱

Wayne ran from Knaphill and got to the halls first we he met Steph who is the manger of the halls and who asked for our assistance. Wayne helped Steph unload her car with all the tools that were required for the task. The area was quite a large area and went back deep. Steph's parents also joined us.

With tools in hand work began to remove the brambles shortly after Nadia & Anne joined the group they both also ran from Knaphill but along the canal 🏃‍♀️. They got stuck in straight away by filling up the bags with the brambles that had already been removed. We were soon joined by Alys & Quinn 🐶, followed by Adam who ran from Woking, Julie & Lauren it was great seeing Lauren who is still recovering from an injury.

Whilst working away we got talking to Steph who told us that the bulb planting event was going to happen during Halloween 🎃 with arts & crafts and other activities ( Sounds like a fun event)

The Surrey 1/2 was still on peoples mind, the event, atmosphere, runners was just amazing and all GG Woking runners did amazingly well.

The sun was setting and Steph brought out Tea & Biscuits for everyone. The area we had cleared looked so different, it was now a great space to plant bulbs. 😀

It total we had done 14 bags 👏🏽 We cleared up said our goodbyes and headed off Anne, Adam, Alys & Quinn, Nadia ran back along the canal, Julie headed home, while Julie dropped Wayne off back in Knaphill.

Great job everyone, see you soon 😀

All Saints Church

A Big Welcome To Liv & Olesia And Their Colleagues From The Hilton Hotel Who Joined Us This Evening

This evening Nadia, Katie, & Julie met at WWF to run the 2k along the canal to the Church. While waiting a group of 10 Hilton staff appeared. Liv & Olesia & their fellow Hilton colleagues introduced themselves. The Hilton Hotel will be opening its doors on the 31st October and this lovely group joined us for tonights task 😀

The group ran along the canal to the church where they met Adrian who was delighted in seeing so many people and quickly got the group going with washing down walls and painting the ceiling on the upper level 🎨

Wayne arrived a little late from work and was shocked to see so many people. Wayne went over to the new members and introduced himself. Liv mentioned that they will be coming to regular tasks and love the idea of helping out in the community, Liv is also training for the Cardiff Marathon 🏃🏻‍♂️

Next week we are we are meeting at WWF and will be running to a property in Horsell to carry out a gardening task.

This Sunday if anyone is available to volunteer at Junior Park Run Please sign up. 😊

This evening 7 GG Members Ran to the All Saints Church To Carry Out Various Tasks

*A big welcome to Luan who joined us on her first task. *

This evening Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Alys & Quinn 🐶 along with Luan as well as regular park run volunteer Rich ran along the canal to the All Saints Church. Julie who was running late messaged to say she was going to meet us at the church.

It was a lovely run/walk along the canal and through the woods. We met Adrian who had everything ready for us.as well as refreshments He also had a very long list of tasks.

Alys & Quinn were given the task of removing some brambles from the front of the church. Adam was in charge of moving some chairs. Wayne was led outside and was given the task of digging around a tree stump and get it prepped for removal 🌴 Luan, Anne, Katie, & Julie as well as Rich had to wash down the walls of the hall and then carry out some painting.

Quinn was also getting stuck in digging away with Alys.

In no time an hour had gone by and we had done so much, it makes such a difference when we have a great turn out. After saying our goodbyes we all headed back to WWF through the common.

We will hopefully be back at the church next week to finish off. 😊

Alys (and Quinn), Clare, Claire, Julie, Nadia and Anne were welcomed by Claud at the RSPCA in Chobham before tackling the invasion of brambles and nettles in the dogs's compounds.

The main gate being locked, Claud showed us the way to two other dogs's compounds where our help was needed. Nadia had warned us she was delayed, so Anne offered to go back to the car park and show her the new route. Unfortunately for Nadia, Anne, being jet-lagged -good excuse to diminish her complete lack of orienteering-, could not remember the way to the new compounds where the rest of the team was already clearing the borders of unwanted plants. Thank goodness, Alys came to the rescue, so the day was saved!

We all got stung by nettles, pricked by thistles and scratched by brambles, but managed to make quite a difference to both areas and filled up 3 big bags. Well done to all!

On Sunday, a group of us will help at junior parkrun, will you join in? Or you could run with us next Wednesday when we will be "leafletting" to advertise the good work done by GoodGym!

In the meantime, enjoy your runs!