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Make draught excluders and drawstring bags for the clients visiting Ealing Soup Kitchen
Sunday 15th September
Kathleen Ward been cheered 10 times.
Goodgymers have noticed what Kathleen has done and have cheered them 10 times. We doff out caps to you Kathleen.
Sun 15th Sep at 11:00am
Three GoodGymers made an appearance at Perivale Woods to participate in the third harvest mouse release at that site. The harvest mice are the UK and Europeโs smallest and possibly cutest rodents. They love living in messy hedgerows and brambles, that are constantly being cut back, often by the GoodGymers! Destructive human activity makes the animal habitats fragmented, and the pockets of wildlife, without corridors to each other, shortly disappear. The harvest mice were believed to be extinct in Ealing, and before Ealing Wildlife Group's project to bring them back into the wild, they were last seen in 1979 in Perivale. Last year saw several releases of mice in Ealing meadows, followed by field surveys, which found their nests - a sign that the project has been successful!
The sunny morning brought to the event many residents and GoodGym's friends from other groups - Friends of both Grove and Horsenden Farm: Sue, Fred and Livio. Elsa from the neighbouring Horsenden Farm was also around, attending to the cows grazing in the field.
The release participants marched calmly through the Perivale Woods, which are normally closed to the public, to the area by the ponds - the mice's new home. Keeping gentle and quiet was necessary when carrying tanks with the animals to spare the mice extra stress during the relocation. To promote the genetic diversity of the rodents, different tanks contained male and female mice from different backgrounds: some bred in Horsenden, others in Battersea, Dorset or Scotland.
The Scottish lasses, that the GoodGymers were releasing didn't live up to their feisty reputation. They behaved rather timidly, apart from Sevan's girl mouse who nibbled at his thumb when he clasped his hands around her. When she was out in the open, Sevan's mouse clumsily slipped off his arm and plunged into the scrub, Kat's mouse on the other hand knew pretty well what to do and jumped confidently into her new life, and Kash's took the wrong turn and walked up the GoodGymer's arm. Kat took some fantastic photos of the mice which you can see in the report.
On the way back, a group of GoodGymers and other mice releasers got carried away, marvelling at the surrounding nature, bug hotels and the hedgehog estates. They lost their way and wandered deeper into the forest! Luckily, an attentive girl spotted that the way back looked different than the original route and called it out. That was the end of quite a pleasant detour. Before heading home, the GoodGymers visited a unique straw bale house, The Bluebell Centre, chatted with the creators of the building about its history and had been invited to come back in spring to admire the fabulous bluebell display in the woods.
Sat 5th Oct at 1:30pm
Turn derelict land into a thriving space to grow food for the local community
Read moreSat 5th Oct at 12:00pm
Wood fired pizza, friendly conversation, fresh bakery, coffee and beer
Read moreTue 24th Sep at 6:30pm
Make draught excluders and drawstring bags for the clients visiting Ealing Soup Kitchen
Read moreSat 5th Oct at 10:00am
Support the local urban farm and orchard
Read moreSaturday 7th September
Kathleen Ward has done their first good deed with GoodGym.
Kathleen is a now a fully fledged GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the first time. They are out there making amazing things happen and getting fit at the same time.
Sat 7th Sep at 11:21pm
Welcome to GoodGym, Kat!
Sun 8th Sep at 5:20am
Thank you for being so welcoming Kash! My first of many ๐ช๐ป
Saturday 7th September
Kathleen Ward earned their community cape by completing their first community mission.
Kathleen completed a community mission. Instead of watching TV or lying in bed, Kathleen was out there making their community a better place to be. For making that choice they have earned the community cape.
Sun 15th Sep at 11:00am
Support a rewilding project to reintroduce the locally extinct species back to Ealing
Read moreTue 22nd Oct at 8:15pm
A quarterly Taskforce catchup to discuss how we're doing in Ealing and what to improve
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