No stick in the mud - she's run a century!

6 Goodgymers helped their local community in Barnet
John Shirley
Jacqueline Shirley
Rachel Melinek
Moya Malekin
Antonio
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Barnet

Tuesday 18th July 2023

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6 GoodGymers ran to our local nature reserve Coldfall Woods to meet up with Ann from the Friends of Coldfall Woods. The recent winds had blown a lot of branches down, and with the summer heat there was a danger of fires from illegal barbeques. We were put to task in teams collecting branches and piling them onto designated areas to protect trees from being trampled around, and provide a nice habitat for insects and small rodents. We also found some rather unusual stinkhorn mushrooms growing, happily not yet at their stinkiest. We swiftly got stuck in to our stick-picking and made some satisfying piles.

But the big news of the night was that by joining this task (and gathering up litter on the way) Jacqueline had done 100 Good Gym deeds! What an achievement, and definitely worthy of that angel wings red t-shirt. No sticky wicket for her - that's a century! We all ran back and celebrated at the Phoenix cinema with some well earned hot drinks.


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Friends of Cold Fall Woods
Improve the environment for the enjoyment of all.

The Friends of Coldfall Wood and Muswell Hill Playing Fields are an informal group of volunteers who share a common interest in protecting and enhancing these two green spaces

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Wed 19th Jul 2023 at 10:16pm

Well done everyone and can’t wait to see @jackie wearing the 100 deeds t-shirt!! You’ll catch up with John very soon! 😬

Paul Salman

Wed 19th Jul 2023 at 10:31pm

Amazing Jackie!

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