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4 GoodGymers made their way to help the Arc Centre in Islington.

  • anne malcolm
  • Patrick Luong
  • Simon Fitzmaurice
  • Dan Dunn
 
Friday, 17th of May 2024
 
Led by Simon Fitzmaurice

Areas Activator Simon, Anne, Dan and Patrick met with lead gardening volunteer Mariana at The ARC centre on a gloriously sunny Friday evening. Together, we were tasked with a 1 hour time limit to help with moving a newly donated sack of fresh soil, over to Riverside Gardens on Regent's Canal, with the use of shovels, wheelbarrows (of varying quality!) and buckets. Each trip was approximately 400m from point to point, so we were putting in some solid wheelbarrow mileage between us!

Riverside Gardens is a lovely protected wildflower garden just off the Packington Estate. Full of flora and fauna, and cultivated to remain semi-wild. We successfully deposited almost 2/3rds of the full bag of soil between us- great progress for a big task!

We will return next week to complete the job!

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https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/the-arc-centre-riverside-gardens-part-2

Report written by Simon Fitzmaurice


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