Another sunny morning cutting brambles and clearing scrub to maintain access to the orchard and prevent nature completely reclaiming the space. We were led today by Rachel of YourPark, who gave us our instructions and safety briefing.

We used shears and pitchforks, enjoying the sunshine and chatting away as we worked. Afterwards we enjoyed our usual coffee, tea and hot chocolate break courtesy of our hosts Peter and Martin.

It's likely we will be back harvesting the orchard apples in the next month or so, and then sending them off to be juiced.

luckily it was not as hot as last week when "faster than speeding greyhounds out of the traps", 4 Goodgymers finished off the leaflet deliveries to make sure everyone in the area served by the community centre were aware of the reopening and the great sessions and support available. In just over 2hrs we had covered the remaining streets, including Lodge Causeway from the top to past the greyhound hound pub which gave us a great photo op! well done Ady Janka and Freya!

See the separate post about the thank you party on 5th Sept, all welcome 🥳

Post Park run on a sunny Saturday morning 4 Goodgymers met up to spread the word about the relaunch of Hillfields Community Centre. As it was so lovely and hot this was most definitely a walk task rather than a sprint, but even so, by the time 12pm had rolled around we had delivered our leaflets and covered all but one of our allocated roads. We headed back to the community centre where we were invited to share a lovely lunch with the other volunteers who had been working in the community garden. I'm sure there will be further opportunities to help Hillfields again in the future, so keep an eye out and sign up!