GoodGym Lambeth Run Report: Weeding Out the Competition! 🏃‍♀️🌿

Mission: Operation Lavender Rescue at Max Roach Park

This week, our magnificent crew of do-gooders descended upon Max Roach Park faster than weeds in a rainstorm! Michelle and the Friends of MR Park rolled out the green carpet (literally) and invited us to wage war on the burdock bandits threatening their beloved Lavender Maze. 💜

The A-Team Assembled:

Andy (finally correctly identified! 🎉) and his pawsome puppy sidekick
Adam, Michael, Fi, and Ben

Our old pal Father Nature was on hand to brief the troops, and boy, did we get down and dirty! Armed with determination and questionable gardening skills, we pulled, stuffed, and mulched like our lives depended on it. Those weeds didn’t stand a chance – we really rooted them out! 🌱

The burdock invasion was no match for our elite squad. We showed those prickly customers the door (or should we say, the compost heap?). The lavender can finally breathe easy and smell sweet again!

Post-Mission Debrief: Ben came through with the ultimate reward – homemade brownies to complete the bake-off sweepstake! Because nothing says “we crushed it” like crushing some chocolate treats. 🍫

Great work, team! You’re all mint to be doing this! 🌿

Same thyme next week? 🏃‍♂️✨

This task supported

Friends of Max Roach Park

Local residents gardening group .

Provide space to work on a much loved Park which has been neglected for decades by the local authority . Many families have no access to a local park. There is a lot of antisocial behaviour which the Friends group are wishing to be understanding of, by including those with alcohol dependencies, isolation and mental health when safe for the group to do so through training provided to us, ensure they can also feel part of the improvements. We want to be a fully inclusive group. The park has so much potential to be a beautiful front garden. It is the largest park , in Brixton North. The Friends group has never been set up before. The park will provide nature and wellbeing to a very large area of Brixton. The Friends group has the support of the Police, Councillors , Lambeth Parks, and Max Roach Community Centre. The new executive committee have recently been nominated, The group have so many professionally skilled residents of Lambeth ready to get going on working as a great team. There are also a group of volunteers from Lambeth and surrounding boroughs. As we are a newly formed group, it will take time to build momentum on the volunteering on physical garden projects. Having your support would be welcomed.

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