Wood you pass another piece of cake?

43 Goodgymers helped their local community in Lambeth
Beth Hoskins
Elise
Alex Terror Tylor
Katie Welford
James Kerry-Barnard
Sarah
Jitendra
Tom Benson
Charlotte Wu
George Bright
Mark Gilyead
Steve Jenkins
Dawn Gibson
Jim
Tessa Hall
John Gutteridge
Hannah
Michael Welsh
Samantha
Tim Wheatley
Rebecca Brooke
George
Alfie
Rachel Whitfield
Josh Bainbridge
Rebecca Jackson
Nicholas Winfield
Hayley Anderson
Andrew
Siobhan Mulcahy
Eleanor
Rhona
Iona Wickens
Steven Jarman
Luka Price
Caitlin Padget
Jules Heckman Hughes
Ross Moir
Rebecca
Nina Wallace
Rebecca Mcgill
Alex Brinded
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Lambeth

Tuesday 11th September 2018

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Beth Hoskins
Beth Hoskins

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Katie Welford
Katie Welford

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REPORT WRITER

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Jim
Jim

PHOTOGRAPHER

Tessa Hall
Tessa Hall

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Report written by Katie Welford

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We had two lovely runs this evening, one was back to the historic Brixton Windmill. Tucked away off Brixton Hill, lots of people don't even know this windmill exists but it does and it is a great place of learning, surrounded by a peaceful garden. Beth led a group on a 1km route to the mill, whilst those wanting a longer run took the 4km Tom Benson run bus.

Here's what Beth had to say:

For those of us that took the direct route up Brixton Hill there was some chat on the way there about how few of us knew that Brixton had it’s own fully functioning windmill. On arrival we were a little disappointed to see that the sails had been taken off the windmill but once they are repaired they’ll be back on and it will be looking more functional again soon. Jean handed out tools and showed us what needed doing. A large group neatened up the edge of the path, a group of three started digging a spot for a new tree and there was also trimming of some overgrown plants to be done. Once the reinforcements arrived in the shape of Tom’s long run group there was even more digging going on and plenty of sweeping and bagging up of weeds.

The rest of us went 2km up to the Tulse Hill Estate. Hidden amongst the buildings is an incredible polytunnel that serves as an educational food growing project for the whole estate. Over the summer, hundreds of tomato plants were cultivated and given out to residents to grow on their balconies. The project gets lots of reclaimed wood that is used to make pallet beds for growing but at the moment it was all piled up next to some garages. Presenting a fire risk, it needed to be moved so we squeezed into the small space and started pulling them out and taking them to a safer space. The pile was quite big and there were bits of timber, old fence and even a fireguard that we pulled out of the way. It was a fantastic effort made all the better by not scratching the very nice VW Golf parked precariously near to the work area.

On arrival back to base, we tucked into some Bake Off treats from Tess and Sarah. It was all delicious and we headed off home happy.


This task supported
Brixton Windmill
A little bit of history in central Brixton!

The Friends of Windmill Gardens (FoWG) were formed in 2003 with three aims: * to get the Grade II listed Brixton Windmill restored and opened for public visits – in 2002 it had been put on English Heritage's buildings at risk register; * to make Windmill Gardens park a more welcoming space for local people; * to have a new education centre at the windmill. Windmill Gardens gained a Green Flag Community Award in 2015 and we have just been judged again so our fingers are crossed that we will retain the award for the next two years.

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Sarah

Wed 12th Sep 2018 at 10:27am

Jay doesn't look happy about that picture!

Jitendra

Wed 12th Sep 2018 at 11:07am

I look well annoyed! For clarity, I thought it was a good task and brill bake off related treats!

Sarah

Wed 12th Sep 2018 at 11:43am

It was! We got those holes dug in the end :-)

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