7 GoodGymers visited Camden's secret community allotments for an impactful (nature-bound) workout!!!

GoodGym teamed up with the lovely folk at EarthFest for this special session.

Earthfest is London's ultimate festival of sustainability, and we spent yesterday making an active difference in one special spot of nature!

Steve, Abigail (on their first good deed – welcome!), and I met at a very wet Earthfest, and we quickly headed out into the rain for a gentle 2 mile run through Camden Town.

Arriving 30 minutes later at Adelaide Community Allotments in Primrose Hill, we met up with the lovely group of Imogen, Majid, Natalia, and Richard, and our brilliant host Jeff directed us to our task for the next hour.

The Adelaide Allotments have been serving the local community for 50 years, and they're a bountiful collection of budding plots, each growing fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Our mission was to empty one of Adelaide's four compost heaps, which month-by-month had been breaking down into healthy fertiliser.

Over the next 60 minutes, our active group turned a task into an efficient human chain – they paired up and rotated between shoveling, wheelbarrowing, and bagging – and all while sharing stories and connecting :)

This group of 7 made easy work of the heap, and they left over 20 bags of compost, all of which will head straight back into the allotments – sustainable recycling in action ☺️

Thank you, everyone, and here's to next time!!

13 inspiring GoodGym folk made a wonderful difference in Kentish Town last night!

Some people can distinguish a grass from a weed and a weed from a flower. I am not one of these people.

But many of these intelligent beings... everyone apart from me... were present in our special group!

Our group in red 👉 Alison, Danny (on their first good deed - hello!), Helen, Imogen, Jackie, John, Majid (on their first good deed - huge welcome!), Sarah, Siobhan, Steve, and Will 👉 arrived in Kentish Town (not far from the Prime Minister's house!) to meet the wonderful Hilda (who was also on their first good deed!!) 👉 and we were there to help her cultivate a healthy hedgerow 🌳💚

I watched in awe as this group identified the 'keeps' from the 'get-rids' while also sharing stories and connecting. The weeds were piled – bag upon bag – and the remaining wild flowers and bushes noticeably started to breathe. And I resorted to taking photos and walking up and down in an attempt to look busy.

Across 60 bright evening minutes this group opened space in the hedgerow – and the fruits of their efforts will carry through into June and beyond – this would have taken a single soul 13 hours to match!

Thank you so much, everyone, for a well-spent evening ☺️

Here's to next time!

Great sunny Friday vibes everywhere in Camden ☀️ today. Gosia and Alex decided to spend this afternoon by helping Mrs J in tidying her garden.

We arrived around 5 pm at Mrs J's door and rung a buzzer 🚪. She warmly welcomed us but then right away told us that she just heard some bad news so it was clear she didn't feel particularly well today.

She showed us where the garden 🌱 is, where the tools are 🧹🧹 and also what needs to be done. The garden looked quite tidy from the first sight🕵‍♀️, but the devil is in the details! It turned out that actually many leaves 🍂, dirt and dust was hiding between the flower pots.

We then indulged ourselves in a sweeping / hide and seek journey, maneuvering between the various objects in the garden and also our conversational topics 💬.

Mrs J also asked us to change the bird food 🐦, a task that was handled by Mr Alex whose height and agility were just perfectly right for the job. When Mrs J suggested we could get a stool 🪑 we kindly but promptly declined 😆.

We thought we did a pretty decent job with sweeping and stuff but Mrs J did find a couple of spots that did not reach this perfection 👀. We quickly caught up and neatly packed the waste into provided bags.

Before leaving the flat we have taken other bin bags that were already there when we arrived. We put all the waste into the bins outside Mrs J's property. We hope, that our visit sprinkled a bit of good spirit energy in Mrs J's day 🙂.