- GoodGym back for their seventh volunteering activity at MOP!
- Last Month at MOP
- How we’ll be using the clay
- About GoodGym Haringey
GoodGym back for their seventh volunteering activity at MOP!
Date Wednesday 9th April ’25
Time 7.00 – 8.00pm
For more details https://www.goodgym.org/v3/areas/haringey
Edit 29/4/25 You can now view the goodgym report here: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/reports/there-s-not-mushroom-here It’s always fun to see just how much goodgym can achieve in their hour sessions!
This week our keep fit pal and general good-do-er Euclides of GoodGym fame sent us a request for GoodGym to do another evening volunteering session at Meadow Orchard. Hooray!
We are putting our thinking caps on and devising a plan for using the combined forces of the GoodGym volunteers to have a real impact into helping share the love, get some projects resolved and benefit our growing community outreach. It’s going to be fun! Work-lights charged and at the ready!
Last Month at MOP
Task in hand in March was to harvest wild clay for a planned sustainable building session making clay straw and also clay that will be processed as pottery clay. Harvesting wild clay sounds much more engaging than asking the volunteers to dig a big hole.
The group soon discovered the unique ground conditions at mop, previously tennis courts. Shovels ringing out as they hit the hard drainage pan of clinker a couple of inches below the surface.
What passes for topsoil and clinker was mounded to one side to reuse later. This made it possible to extract big spits, shovel loads of clean clay (free from aggregate and surface organic matter). The sticky London clay was scraped from the shovels and bagged up in reused malt sacks for later use in April for our eco-building project in the Roundhouse.
How we’ll be using the clay
About GoodGym Haringey
If you are not familiar with the concept of GoodGym, GoodGym are a group of volunteers who meet on Wednesdays to help out with community activities and errands.
The good gym-ers often meetup at bluehouse yard and run to the activity. This is optional abd if you’re not quite up to that volunteers can also meet onsite too.
Tasks can be helping community groups with gardening activities or something as small as helping an elderly neighbour with some shopping. It’s a really friendly group, a great mix of volunteers a really a lovely community.
Click the link below if you’d like to find out more about the organisation.
Meadow Orchard Project 
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