14 wonderful runners ran 3km to help trim branches at Christchurch School Community Garden!

For the first time this year, it was dark before we'd even started. It's coming to that time where only the most hardcore runners show up.. so well done one and all!

After a quick warm up, we headed off towards Christchurch via the river where we stopped for a nice photo... Greenwich is surely the most photogenic of GoodGym locations? Am I right?? Plus the most photogenic group of course!

Moments later, we arrived at the school, greeted by the wonderful and always super organised Patrick and Fiona who had got everything ready for us and explained the tasks at hand.

The main one was trimming overgrown branches that had started to peek through the blue fence plus there was also some work to do on a raised bed so Alex, Steve and Julian stayed to help Patrick with that while the rest of the group grabbed some gloves and some secateurs and began snipping branches!

The fence seemed like it went on forever but it was quite a satisfying job and the branches were coming down at lightning speed. Before we knew it, some of you were right down the other end of the school already!

The raised be was coming on nicely too and after 30 minutes we were done! The fence was so tidy and all the cuttings had been bagged up and put by the bins, there was even time for a final sweep of the pavement and a few minutes to put in the last bag of soil into the bed. NICE!!

On our next visit we will be helping to plant some trees for their orchard project! Sounds like it'll be another good one!!

We had a little jog back and called it a night!

Community Mission on Friday...

Just quickly.. the community mission helping at the Pop Up Kitchen in Woolwich tomorrow is here. Big thanks to Julian who is already signed up and if anyone else can lend a hand at any point during the day from 1-8pm then they would hugely appreciate it!

Hopefully see some of you at Victoria Dock Parkrun this weekend! There are lots of spaces still on the volunteer roster if you didn't want to run!

Great job on the task last night, you got so much done and made a huge difference as always!! If you know of any other schools nearby that could do with our help then please put me in touch or let me know! See you next time!