Today was our first session with Sian from the new Friends of Foxes Fields. Some of the park signs looking a little tired and dirty - not any more!

Despite the pretty grim weather, armed with Sian's bag-of-many-cleaning-products, we whipped round the the park and scrubbed all the signs that we could see, removing graffiti, lichen and from the before and after photos, you'll see we made a really big difference!

Great scrubbing Rich & Sian!

Today, Rich joined a gardening session at St Edwards Mottingham where a brand new garden is being set up.

Tasks included removing loads of ivy and also removing some weeds and shrubs so that two compost bins can be moved.

Neal said afterwards "It was a pleasure having Rich on the team" 👍

Top stuff!

The community garden at Geffrey’s Hall is looking crazy overgrown but a little less so now!

I pulled out all the big weeds in the “lawn” so Martin could come through with the mower.

Unfortunately the grass was too thick and wet so it might have to wait until we have the strimmer working 💪

Put Leaflets in local Shops With Mark Including The Post Office, The COOP and Doctors,

And the award for bad photography goes to... me... 😔

But what a wonderful way to start off the brand new GoodGym Mottingham journey ✨ with a trio of weeders making a difference in one of the many amazing community spaces Mottingham has to offer.

Geffrey's Hall Community Centre is a local community hub, but it's garden area was looking a little unloved. But not for long! We'll be heading back on a regular basis to bring some life back to it.

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Tonight we did some simple weeding around the entrance:

💪 Pulling back a grass carpet which covered some of the paving slabs

🌱 Emptying some HUGE pots of little and large weeds

🕷 Watching out for webs and stinging nettles...

🍂 And making a big pile of everything we removed which will go on the compost heap

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It was great to meet Richard for his first ever GoodGym task 👍 especially with his enthusiasm to get stuck in and gardening knowledge!

This is the start of many more sessions in Mottingham. Keep an eye out on all upcoming events here.