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November Grove Farm Conservation Day ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’š Green task ๐Ÿ’š Discover a wonderful nature reserve in Greenford
๐Ÿ—“Saturday 22nd November 10:00am

๐Ÿ“David Lloyd Sudbury Hill UB6 0HX

Improve the biodiversity of the beautiful place for people to visit & relax

Ashley
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Ashley
Ashley signed up to a community mission.

Sat 22nd Nov at 10:00am

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Ashley went on a community mission

Sat 18th Oct at 10:00am

Grand Bugapest Hotel

Ealing Report written by Kash

This October, our usual third Saturday of the month, dedicated to Western Road Urban Garden, turned into a celebration of the end of the growing season. With the harvest already collected, all that was left was a tidy-up and throwing a party afterwards!

The atmosphere in Southall was buzzing with the upcoming Diwali festivities. It was a fantastic time to join GoodGym and Southall Community Alliance at a very special community day. Deepak decided to do exactly that. Welcome to the team, Deepak!

With eight GoodGymers to help the urban garden this Saturday, Janpal and Paul scrambled to provide them with a variety of light and heavier tasks. Steph Ducat, Ash, Afshin, Kash and Sevan, together with a good friend from previous WRUG sessions, Andre, and a new volunteer, Sangheeta, chose a tricky task of moving timber stacked alongside the polytunnel. The planks were not only heavy and long, but also packed with nails. Everyone was extra careful, resisting any temptation to show off, which resulted in a new stack of timber in a more appropriate spot and zero mishaps on the way! Sevan then joined Iram, A.B. and Deepak in meticulous weeding around the fruit trees in the orchard and wheelbarrowing the surprisingly large amounts of green waste to the compost heap.

It was not yet noon when our team and the new arrivals at WRUG slowly started gravitating towards the polytunnel to uncover its hidden treasures. This time, we don't mean okra, chillies or gourd, but a feast prepared by Janpal: samosas, chicken biryani, Indian sweets, hot and cold drinks and an abundance of fruit! The mid-session break was a great opportunity to chat with the familiar and the new faces and sample the flavours that are best found in Southall.

It might have been tempting to call it a day after such a pleasant interval - but not for the GoodGymers! The timber carriers team logged a new log-moving achievement in their portfolio. They migrated another pile of wood into the space created after removing the planks to build a timber wall with a double function: a border with neighbouring property and an enormous bug hotel.

That's not a hotel. It's a resort!"

When the main objectives, weeding the orchard and moving the wood, were done, the GoodGymers proactively asked about a bonus task - and Janpal responded! The recently cleared hedging and the bases of the orchard trees needed a thick layer of woodchip. With forks, wheelbarrows, buckets, and, of course, great teamwork, we completed that activity in no time. That was finally the time to call it a day (and the end of the season) - unless you were one of the GoodGymers with yet another session in store on Saturday!

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Ashley
Ashley signed up to a community mission.

Sat 18th Oct at 10:00am

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Ashley went on a community mission

Sat 11th Oct at 10:30am

A Round Of Appleause

Ealing Report written by Sevan

Today's session for HANGOT had a surprisingly good start. There were 10 GoodGymers registered for the task, which was amazing in itself, including Will who made this is first GoodGym session. Welcome ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿฅณ! Everyone also made it to HANGOT's secret undercover base on time and without getting lost. Amazing!

Once assembled, they walked to BlackBerry Corner, one of HANGOT's earliest orchards, with 20 apple trees and a long history of brambles, hence the name. As it was coming to the end of the growing season - for fruit and weeds - it was time to tidy up the orchard. Today's priorities were to:

  1. Clear a ring around each apple tree to be free of weeds
  2. Remove brambles and nettles from the paths
  3. For completeness, cut down the open spaces too

The goal was to starve the ground of nutrients year after year to stunt and then eventually stop the weeds from growing back.

Work was divided up between the team with everyone grabbing a tool for their task. Shears, rakes, wheelbarrows, a pitchfork and a slasher were passed around. Working together, they made quick work of the most important jobs around the paths and trees.

At the same time, some of HANGOT's team were scything the open spaces, leaving lots to be raked up and moved to the distant compost heap. Will did a great job of raking throughout the task, which gave him a solid workout at his first session. A few others felt the fatigue in their muscles too by the end from chopping and slashing.

HANGOT were incredibly grateful that the huge GoodGym turnout had helped them complete all of the planned work. Their compost heap had also gone from zero to humongous, which will be really useful next year. There was even time for some to see their first quince tree fruiting and taking a chance on eating what they'd hand picked.

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Danny

Mon 13th Oct at 6:55am

Thanks a lot for organising Sevan!! ๐Ÿ™

Ashley
Ashley signed up to a community mission.

Sat 11th Oct at 10:30am

Canal-side gardening in public orchards - October 2025

Encourage biodiversity and local community engagement along the Grand Union Canal

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Kash
Ashley
Ashley completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Saturday 4th October

High 5

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Ashley completed 5 good deeds with GoodGym.

Ashley is a now a pretty committed GoodGym runner. They've just run to do good for the fifth time

Sevan
Kash
Ashley
Ashley cheered by other people 25 times. ๐Ÿคฉ

Saturday 4th October

Applause

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Ashley cheered by other people 25 times.

Ashley is part of a crowd that's making a huge noise. Ashley has been cheered by 25 people - that's a round of applause just on their own. We hope they keep it up.

Ashley
Ashley went on a group run

Sat 4th Oct at 1:00pm

(B)Root Force

Ealing Report written by StephDucat

After a great lunch at Horseden Farm with fellow Goodgymers, 3 Goodgymers set off through the woods to their next community mission. A small walk of 2km and we met Jatinder from CIC and Joseph joined shortly after. We did not know what to expect today but we were in for a good typical workout reserved for Goodgym. It was their first time for Maxime and Ashley at this urban garden and were impressed by the vineyards, bee hives and the polytunnel and outside area. Today we had the task to clear a section so that new beds can be installed in the near future and enable more planting. As windy day, it was hard to know what layers to keep on, but Steph Ducat as usual was in T-Shirt and then Ashley soon took his layers off due to the workout. Maxime also started to layer off. The clearing was not as easy as you think as we had to get all the roots out : a lot of bramble roots which seemed to be all connected together and never ending underground. "B"root force was the moto for today and we were able to take loads out. We did find different colored roots from wood brown to black and a weird red. Some also had looks of parts of a human : human heart shaped. After a 90 minute session the 3 Goodgymers beat the roots. We all then left to follow our own "roots" back to different occupations.

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Ashley went on a community mission

Sat 4th Oct at 10:00am

My way or the hay-way

Ealing Report written by Kash

As Storm Amy approached Ealing, a whirlwind of West London GoodGymers landed at Horsenden Farm. A strong team of seventeen hasn't been seen in Ealing for a long time. It took the joint forces of Ealing, Hounslow and Richmond to build a do-good brigade so large that it surprised even the task owner, Elsa, who scrambled to find more tasks for them.

We welcomed two new joiners, Bernadette and Tom, who chose to kick off their GoodGym adventure dangerously close to the Gruffalo Trail at Horsenden Hill. With such an impressive team, the chances of being eaten by a Gruffalo were close to zero. At the same time, the odds of having fun with good company while getting active in nature before eating carb-heavy, cheesy goodness from a local bakery were very high!

Our regulars from the Hounslow group runs had a chance to welcome back the unstoppable Lucy after the break she had to take in the last couple of weeks. Great to see you again, Lucy!

Two of the tasks given by Elsa had a lot to do with the mysterious disappearance of Horsenden pigs. The first assignment, taken by Steph Ducat, Iram, Kymm and Gus, was to transfer hay from the broken-down hay bales to the former pig quarters and spread it on the ground. I chose to believe it was to secure the traces of a pignapping crime until the arrival of the forensics team. Steph described the effort as hay-way to hell as the gusts of wind kept blowing the hay out of the wheelbarrows. Kymm reported there were as many techniques to spread the hay as GoodGymers: from gleeful tossing, through grumpy kicking to methodical arranging.

Sevan and Bernadette had a task of clearing weeds, mostly nettles, near the Horsenden Loaf pizza oven. Sevan shared that they were setting the stage for the hog roast the following day. That shed some light on the disappearance of the pigs - they must have escaped when they heard about the whole hog roast enterprise!

The largest squad undertook a mammoth job of clearing brambles to expand a meadow where the farm cows could graze to help establish a grassland with plenty of wildlife on the slope of Horsenden Hill. Gaby, Ariane, Tom, Mairaj, Maxime, Afshin, Thaiza, Lucy and Kash were chopping, lopping or slashing the blackberry invaders while Anita and Ash raked away the cuttings.

The cherry on a cake was that all the activity was observed through the lens of photographer Laura, who did a great job of not interrupting our tasks while capturing the spirit of GoodGym and the beauty of Horsenden Hill. We are hoping our part-time modelling gig today will help spread the word about GoodGym in the coming months. It will probably also disclose our soft spot for Horsenden pizza!

Inspired by today's task? Join the Horsenden session next month! Sign up now!

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Sun 5th Oct at 12:15am

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Sun 5th Oct at 1:30pm

Just wonderful to see such a huge GoodGym team assemble! Well done, everyone! โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ

Ashley
Ashley signed up to a group run.

Sat 4th Oct at 1:00pm

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