Spring forward for an Emma-zing ๐Ÿ’ฏ

50 Goodgymers helped their local community in Bristol
Christopher Lewis
Caroline
Nick Baker
Paul Becker
Danica Priest
Lisa Elliott
Richard Breakspear
Alice Whale
Ruth watkinson
natalie wooller
Shona Buchanan
Tom Hill
Andrew Gardner
Sally Williams
Emma R
Alice Dalrymple
Jack Bradley
Felicity
Jenny Chak
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Laura Spencer
Russ Cahill
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Joe Hounsham
Fiona Cowan
Nia Evans
Chris Palmer
Georgia Merrell
Paul Martin
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Corrie Clough
Katie Kelly
Saskia Felstead
Olivia G
Lisa Pearce
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Alexander Braatz
Ross Hooper
Tracy Kramer
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Bristol

Tuesday 2nd April 2019

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Alice Whale
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Shona Buchanan
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It was great to welcome Natalie and Tracy to their first Bristol GoodGym run this evening! It was a special night for several reasons. Richard G hit his 5 year Group Run streak. What a hero. To mark the occasion, he had a fetching '5 today' badge which he wore with pride for the rest of the night. Our second celebration of the evening was Emma becoming a Centurion with her 100th Good Deed. Massive well done Emma, we look forward to seeing your wear your wings with pride ๐Ÿ˜Š

Spring forward for a good forking

The group split into two gardening tasks to celebrate the first light Tuesday evening of the year. The first group set off on a longer 8km run to Easton Community Garden. There, they did some speed compost shovelling, sawing, sanding, digging and weeding to make a dent in the pile of work required to start off the warmer months at the garden. We will definitely be back to continue this work before long!

The second group headed over the hill to St Werburgh's City Farm Community Garden. The garden has adults with disabilities there during the week, so the group were set to work with manual tasks around the garden which are too difficult for the group. The tasks were: digging and deweeding a large mound for planting, putting their signs up, weeding a bed for planting, shovelling animal compost (Group 1 weren't the only lucky ones...) and chopping down large amounts of overgrown willow. Sarah was gobsmacked at how much of a difference we were able to make in just 30 minutes with all hands on deck.

After we had got a bit too involved in our willow-lopping, it was time to hot foot it back to base. After this, it was time for our monthly GoodGym Eats, where twenty of us crammed in to Bambalan for delicious food and a delicious Alice-baked cake (again!) to celebrate Emma's 100th. Thank you Clo for organising!


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Easton Community Garden
Your community garden

Easton Community Garden is open to anyone who would like to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in a beautiful, quiet corner of Easton / Whitehall in Bristol. We encourage wildlife and use natural growing methods. You donโ€™t need to know anything about gardening to come and join us, we all learn together and look it up in a book if we are not sure. We meet to work on the garden every Thursday throughout the year from 11am. There is no membership, no cost and you donโ€™t have to commit to anything, just come when you can, but we hope it will be often. We are a sociable group, stop for tea in the shelter and share a vegetarian picnic lunch. At the end of the day we share out whatever harvest is ready to take home.

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