A nice short but physical morning task in Regents Park.

We had two big ton sacks of heavy wet top soil to bag up and loaded into the van where it went to Ingestre Estate to be used in the raised beds and pots for trees left over from our earlier tree planting this year.

A good work out shovelling and lifting!

What a fabulous sunny Sunday and very productive mission!

We had multiple teams taking on different tasks. Continuing the fantastic litter picking efforts from last week we found some very interesting items (the clue is in the title).

Thanks Linda for the report title!

A huge effort was made on sorting out the timber pile, cleaning it out and organising it as well as bringing salvaged timber from the allotment and other areas of the woods.

Then we had the tree planting team, that ended up being 90% prep work! Everyone got stuck in wedding, clearing leaves and litter. We had tons of leaves and broken branches that we relocated to the woods as a habitat pile. All of that before we could do any planting; within gaps in a hedgerow planted last year we put in new young Hawthorne, Blackthorn, Hazel and Dog Rose. All native trees that will provide great food and homes for nature.

Huge thanks to everyone regular and new for turning out and making it a great mission!

Tucked away behind Ingestre Road, is a small green space behind an estate.

Over the last year we’ve been helping out the Ingestre Residents Association and Camden Green Gym revamp the food growing space, the local woods and green space across the estate. They have some fantastic new raised beds and plants but the work continues. We’ve got a few tasks to complete over the next few Group Runs and Community Missions;

Our task today - to plant a complete hedgerow next to a wall, at the bottom of a slippery slope. Area activator Pete, and veterans John and Linda were joined by a large number of new GoodGymers, many of whom had been at uni together.

So not only did we plant most of the trees, but some other plants at the top of the slope. We also collected six bags of rubbish. And we'll be back there next Sunday.

Great Saturday morning task during a break in the rain we had the tons of soil and compost to move bag up. Things were slightly hampered by the rain making the soil muddy and heavier, but we managed to divide a whole ton of soil into manageable bags.

The soil and compost that's been bagged up will be used to fill planters and beds on the Ingestre estate and within the food growing space.

Everyone did an amazing job clearing and tidying the lard of the fallen leaves, it made a real transformation!

We've got a couple of group runs coming later in the month to fill the raised beds with this soil. Sign up to get involved!

It might have turned cold but we kept warm up and down stairs delivery flyers letting local residents know about upcoming tree planting in their area.

We also had time to clear and prepare the ground around existing trees in the hedgerow to find gaps for where the new trees will go!

Get evening for a wonder around these secluded woods, do a little good as we go!