knaphill Community Fridge

On this beautiful evening 5 GG members met at the community fridge to carry out painting & gardening tasks. ☀️

Wayne, Katie, Kirsty, Julie, & Nadia met at Knaphill community fridge. The fridge has been closed for a few weeks while Jules was on holiday.

Jules had everything ready for us. Paint, brushes, power tools, & gloves. We split up into two groups. Wayne & Katie started the prep work to paint the inner doors of the kitchen. Kirsty, Julie, & Nadia started weeding and tidying up the bedding plant. We were all thinking about Anne and how well she did in the San Francisco marathon and how we cant wait to see her hear all about it and see her shiny medal 🏅

Jules was so grateful for the amount of Woking GG have done for the community fridge over the last month,

In no time we had finished and we also all got a lovely loaf of sourdough bread. 🍞

Next Wednesday we are at the RSPCA tackling the brambles Anne will also be back 😀

Knaphill Community Fridge

This evening 5 GG members headed to the community fridge to carry out some cleaning & painting.

Big shout out to Kirsty who's birthday was yesterday 🎉

We were back at the community fridge this evening to finish off what we had started the previous week. Wayne, Kirsty, Anne, Katie, & Alys met Jules at the fridge where she gave us our tasks.

Anne, Katie, & Alys started with cleaning & wiping down the windows of the gazebo while Wayne & Kirsty started to do the prep work fir the community fridge before painting began by giving the front a dust down and removing all signage. Once it was clean the painting began. Alys joined Wayne while Kirsty & Anne moved on to the front of the church to wipe down the signs. Katie had finished on the gazebo & joined the painting team in no time the community fridge shed looked brand new.

While we were cleaning up and putting away the tools Jules kindly offered us pastries & breads from Gails bakery who had made a delivery 😋.

With our breads in hand we headed off the pub to have a drink to celebrate Kirsty birthday 🎉 while watching the footy ⚽️.

Alys was filling us all in on her wedding plans, looks like its going to be a grand event 😀.

We finished our drinks said our goodbyes & headed home.

This Sunday Woking Junior Park would love volunteers to carry out various roles if anyone is available 🏃🏾‍♂️💨

Knaphill Community Fridge

This evening 8 GG members met up at the Knaphill Community Fridge to carry out a big clean.

Wayne, Anne, Adam, Katie, Kirsty, Lauren, Julie, & Nadia met the Church where we then met Jules who had many tasks for us to carry out.

We split up in two teams. Anne, Katie, & Nadia were tasked with wiping down the inside of the marquee and once completed put up some bunting around the three sides, there was plenty of buckets of water and cleaning products and the girls got stuck in straight away 🧽.

Wayne & Adam had the responsibility of moving the fridge and freezer getting right behind and giving the floor area a good sweep and mop. In order to do this a lot of moving around was required 💪.

Julie & Kirsty who currently only has the use of one arm were removing an old filing cabinet and it contents and replacing it with a new one, they were also doing some weeding and generally helping everyone.

While busy working talk started about the Surrey half marathon. Looks like Woking GG will be represted well this year with Wayne, Anne, & Adam doing the half, while Katie, Kirsty, Nadia, & Lauren possibly doing the 5K 🏃‍♂️, Hopefully our currently injured members will be fit and ready to go by then 😊.

Within the hour we had finished Jules was very impressed with the quality of the teams work. We are back at the fridge in two weeks time to do a little painting.

We helped Jules clear everything away said our goodbyes and headed to the restaurant for something to eat..😋.

Two organisations for one

Last night we had two tasks to complete, one was for Holy Trinty Pre school and the other for Knaphill Community Fridge.

Just the four ladies tonight but we split into two team. With Alys and Rosie taking on the gardening tasks at the pre school and myself and Julie taking on the cleaning task at Knaphill community fridge. Luckily they are next door to each other!

Alys and Rosie had to the jobs of tackling the herb garden and edging of the path, there was a promise of jet washing but it was a tad but dark for that. Whilst Julie and I gave the cabin a deep clean, moving all the fridges and cleaning behind and clearing the cob webs.

We had to two lovely bonus's tonight... firstly we got to meet Quinn, Alys's new lovely little dog, I think he enjoyed himself running around the garden. And secondly there was a delivery from Gail's bakery to the Community Fridge so we all went away with a little sweet treat! YUM!!

Next week

We will be meeting at Brookwood farm car park. The litter around the park is terrible so we will aim to complete 30 mins of litter picking before heading off for a run down the canal and back along the heath to the car park.

No tree was safe last night

Especially when James has a sharp saw in his hand.

Last night we headed to the Knaphill Community fridge. Next door to the community fridge is Holy Trinity Pre school. We were greeted by Jules and volunteer and gardener Richard. The task involved clearing trees in the pre school garden.

One tree was causing the pre school some 'Bee' issues as being a wonderful pollinator for the bees, it was also dangerous for the pre schoolers and had to be coned off due to the threat of a Bee to sting to a child.

We had the job of also bringing down the height of the trees along the path - an impressive birds nest was discovered. Adam's height came in handy for this job!

We also welcomed back Anne who was back to her group runs after being in France - It was lovely having you back! Rosie also brought her boyfriend along to give GoodGym a go. Well done to those who either ran or cycled to the task.

Good luck to James running a 20 miler this weekend.

Next week - We are at woodham parish church - meeting at WWF and running down the canal - this is roughly 2km to the task.

This evening Woking GG were at the community fridge in Knaphill.

Todays task was to remove the old sleepers around the raised bed that had rotten, also remove the lavender plants and find and remove any bulbs we found to be re-planted once new sleepers had been put in.

Jules who runs the community fridge provided us with plenty of tools and we all got going. Kirsty, Wayne, James started to work on the rose bush to trim back and then remove it so it could be re-planted else where. This particular task was like an archeological dig the roots were in so deep but with James delicate hand work we managed to get it out. 🥀

The sleepers were removed by Wayne & Adam and put and put away some where out of the way and covered up as these will be taken away tomorrow.

Anne, Alys, Holly, Started putting the soil into bags while at the same time finding and removing bulbs. In total we got 2 bucket loads of these and we filled up 6 bags of soil which Adam carted away in a wheel barrow.

All in all it was a good evenings work.. James, Adam and Anne ran to help Alys's mother-in-law to move furniture as she is building an extension to care for her bed-ridden husband. Hard work, Adam and James would have done Woking GG very proud!

Good luck to James, Anne, Kirsty, & Lauren who are taking part in the Dorney Lake Run This Sunday...