This session happened as part of the Blue Earth Summit which was happening in Woolwich this week. It was exciting to hear lots of ideas about how to make our cities sustainable and then to go and be part of making it happen by running along the Thames to Christchurch School Community garden. its has been transformed from and empty plot to a vibrant green space with fruit trees, vegetable growing and dead hedges and is used by the school to run forest schools. We were part of the annual process of cutting back and bagging up the brambles. Marta, Patrick, Fiona and I worked hard to cut and back the brambles that were already loose and then hacked down a new section by the fence. An hour or so later the place was looking a lot tidier and there's more room for planting and forest school.

On the hottest day of the year so far Louise was happy for accompany me on my 1st Team Lead role. We met at St Mary’s Gates of Greenwich park where we proceeded to jog to each of the 7 benches along the Herbaceous border stopping to complete a set of squats, press ups, left/right lunges, tricep dips, more press ups and finishing with a final set of squats.

We then slowly jogged to Christchurch School Community Gardens where Patrick admitted that the gardens had started to take over and asked if we could clear some of the over growth which was starting to cause a problem to those walking along the pavement. We got to work cutting back this growth but would have liked some help from our vertically challenged friends, but not too be so we did the best we could and ended up filling 4 wheelbarrows full. Before we knew it we had almost completed an hour and very much in need of a rest and some more hydration.

A very enjoyable morning which we hope will become a regular outing for anybody who wants to split their day with some exercise & volunteering.