🌻**MONDAY SESSION 6-7pm** - help prepare the garden at AbPhab Youth Club in Becontree ready for spring

👉 The AbPhab garden is a very special place for the young members of this specialist youth club for special educational needs & disabilities. There’s big plans for the garden this Spring, and AbPhab need GoodGym's help. Join us!

👐 GoodGym sessions are open to everyone - if you're new to GoodGym, come along for your first session and get to know our friendly volunteers. See our Instagram reel of a recent GoodGym session at AbPhab here

🧤 What We’ll Do

• weeding

• refilling the planters with fresh compost

• starting to prepare the planters for painting

🕕 Timings

• 5.45pm - [optional] meet at Upney Station for 1.5 mile run / walk to AbPhab Youth Club

• 6.15 - 6:20 - welcome & briefing at Ab Phab Youth Club

• 6:20 – 7:00 – task time!

• 7:00 – wrap-up and high fives

🌞 Why It Matters

AbPhab's garden is a special memorial garden for Neil who was the club's very first young person to sign-up when it opened in 1987.Neil went on to campaign tirelessly for the rights of disabled people in Barking & Dagenham and beyond

Sarah, Kelly and the rest of AbPhab team need help refreshing the garden; during the spring we'll be painting and varnishing the vegetable planters and archway, giving the whole garden a thorough weeding, laying new stone pebbles in the boarders and helping install art work.

AbPhab provides incredible opportunities for 11-25 year-olds with special educational needs and disabilities, and our task will make the garden ready for young people to use, including harvesting the fruit & vegetables for cooking sessions!

👋 Who You’ll Meet

• Kelly & Sarah - the heart of the AbPhab youth team
  

Come along for a relaxed and friendly evening of volunteering – no experience needed, just bring your energy and community spirit!

I hope to see you there!!

Steven