Sabina, Alicia, Tabitha and Pete met at Beer n Burger warmed up and jogged to Clitterhouse Farm where they met up with Lee and Anika. Anika quickly assigned our roles watering, sorting pots and moving woodchip. Alicia and Lee did a great job shovelling and moving woodchip in wheelbarrows, joined later by Tabitha who started by sorting pots. Pete and Sabina filled watering cans and watered the front beds and then the herb garden. We all then jogged and walked back to base. Great job. The Clitterhouse Farm garden is definitely feeling better tonight!

It was my second visit to Mrs S’s house, and this time I had the pleasure of working in her backyard. What a wonderfully fruitful little garden it is! It has an amazing variety of fruit trees and bushes, including pears, blackberries, gooseberries and cherries. I cleared the garden path and did some weeding, helping to make the space a little tidier and easier to enjoy. It was satisfying to see the difference after a bit of hard work. As always, the visit ended with a lovely little chat with Mrs S. Another rewarding GoodGym session, combining a bit of exercise, gardening and good company!

Chris, Dennis, Alicia and Pete met at Beer n Burger, we welcomed Alicia whose first time it was at Goodgym Brent! We did a short warm-up then jogged to Kilburn Grange Park where we met Kamil and Ajay. We collected garden refuse bags and tools, proceeded to the rose garden then raked dry leaves and put them in the bags and loosened the soil around the roses in preparation for some much needed rain.

We put the tools back and dragged the full bags to the garden truck at the end.

A great job. Kamil and Dennis left from the park, Alicia, Chris and Pete jogged back for a quick drink after.

three tasks in one to keep cricklewood clean

We had a great time clearing out her front garden and chatting with her for a while. Can’t believe she’s almost 90 - she’s got a great spirit and was a lovely person to help on this beautiful day! Will hopefully be able to help her clear her back yard next as it’s a lot to tackle!

There was a return visit to Ms T this afternoon in very different conditions to the last time that Kash and Sevan ran to Wembley. Instead of cold and pouring with rain, today was bone dry and hot. Ms T's request was the same as last time, to remove the weeds from the flower beds in her back garden.

To keep Kash and Sevan entertained (as if weeding wasn't exciting enough), Ms T offered the team some tunes in the back garden. One of her Spotify playlists filled the garden with Phil Collins, Beyonce, Tina Turner and more., resulting in a little bit of singing along and a lot of "oh, my dad likes this one".

Ahead of the GoodGym visit, Ms T had sprayed some of the garden with weedkiller to make removal easier and there plenty of dead brown plants dotted around. There was also one with beautiful purple flowers that was apparently a weed too and needed to be removed. Kash speedily dug it out with the fork while Sevan tackled another flower bed, pulling out the shallow rooted plants.

Sevan eventually gave in and picked a small knife as his weeding tool of choice and Kash continued with the fork. Between them and their different approaches, they cleared the flower beds with time to spare, leaving Ms T overcome with happiness at the kindness of others.

"I'm a big believer in energy and you've given me good energy"
"This was a good energy transfer" - Ms T