Today we had a fairly large group of GoodGymers as we joined together for tree planting at Knaphill lower school. 📚✏️

We had a few things to celebrate today, including Wayne birthday 🎈earlier in the week, along with his 200th GoodGym task 🎉, and we also said hello 👋🏼 to a newcomer Cath who is Nadia auntie. Great work Wayne on your many good deeds, long may they continue. Well done from all of us! 👏🏼

Half the gang, Wayne, Adam and Claire arrived at the start time, where Adam bumped into a work colleague! They got stuck straight in to dig up the turf where the trees were being planted. Then, more GoodGymers joined like Lauren, Cath Anne and Nadia, for the actual planting, having been welcomed warmly by the school staff who had put on drinks and biscuits to fuel everybody! ☕️

After some catching up and intros, we all got on with the task, which was surprisingly technical. Everybody had a turn at doing the various steps, like securing posts, breaking up the soil, hammering in tacks 🔨, and laying mulch in a doughnut 🍩. It was great to see everybody working around each other to complete each tree. We were in the great hands of the Surrey countryside team though who guided us through all the steps to ensure the trees root properly and grow healthily. 🌳

The school have given their new orchard a lovely name, ‘Knapples’, and we are proud to have played a small part in this great initiative. Hopefully in a few seasons the fruit will be plentiful for the children to enjoy and learn about the wonders of organic food. 🍎🍑🍐🍏

After completing 20 tree plantings, most of the team had a photo by the Knapples sign, by the Headteacher, and went on their merry way!

Great task, happy times, celebrating nature 🌳