This was GoodGym's first time helping out at the Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground and we had a glorious sunny morning for it.

On arrival, we were offered a range of tasks. Jo and Anne chose to rake sand in the climbing area to even out the ground level.

Meanwhile Matt, Gayle and Jack headed off to the wood pile to shift logs to another area where they can be cut up with the chainsaw without annoying the neighbours.

The hour passed in no time at all, in which time, a mountain of logs had been shifted and the sand was definitely more stripey, if not necessarily more evenly spread.

Sounds like there is plenty to do for this group so look out for more tasks here in future.

Well done everyone on another good task helping Springfield Park!

Me, George and Caitlin met outside Brunswick Bakehouse for a nice social run through parks and along the river Lea to the task. There we met up with the rest of the team, welcome new Goodgymer Paula !

We grabbed the tools from the depot and made our way to the work in progress Wildflower Strip next to the tennis courts in Spring Hill.

We surveyed the area and focused on patch which we were able to complete in the allocated time. We raked/ hoed the grass, whilst dodging tennis balls! We then spread sand over the area to help with reducing the grass burden, and dropping the fertility of the ground which will help to establish a healthy wildflower strip that will be more likely to survive long term. Wildflower strips are a great source of food for pollinators, and great for bigger mammals like hedgehogs who will hunt in them.

Before we knew it we created our own little Beach / Dry Garden in Hackney.

Great job everyone, see you at the next one!