Cinderella Shall Go to the Football

5 Goodgymers helped their local community in Ealing
StephDucat
Sevan
Kash
Roberta
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Ealing

Saturday 3rd August 2024

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Cinderella's wicked stepmother had decided that not only did she have to do all the housework but she also had to maintain the space at the future Feeding Ealing allotment in Sudbury Hill. Her only escape from the daily drudgery was getting out and playing football on a Saturday evening. To further frustrate Cinderella, her stepsisters had hidden the footballs and football boots that she needed to go to training in a big pile of rubbish on the allotment site. Not wanting this to prevent her from her only happiness during the week, she called in her friends from GoodGym Ealing and Heston Lions to clean up the mess and find her footballing kit.

An empty skip had been placed near the allotment and the GoodGym team, with their friends got stuck in to carry and wheelbarrow all sorts of waste from the pile, including a typewriter, bikes, chairs, a childrens' slide and lots of chunks of concrete and bricks. As they removed the bigger items, the smaller ones below became visible. One, two, three, then four footballs emerged to fill Cinders' net bag. As they rooted through the waste, the GoodGymers found one each of her work flats, her basketball shoes and her court shoes. Still, her football boots - both of them - were nowhere to be found.

By this point the pile of waste was small and the skip was filling up. Kash and Roberta decided with so little left to clean up, it was a good time to cut back the brambles on site and also collect some juicy, sweet blackberries at the same time.

Finally the team managed to uncover Cinderella's pair of football boots, meaning that her kit was complete and she could go to her football training. As GoodGym and the Lions had done such a great job, Cinders could also have a night off from gardening in the allotment and her wicked stepmother would never know.


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Feeding Ealing CIC
Creating an urban allotment to grow fresh food for local charities.

We're planning to erect a poly-tunnel and growing beds to produce fresh vegetables for local charities.

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