On a beautifully sunny Saturday, Goodgym-ers from Lambeth and Wandsworth joined forces to help the team at the Community Healing Gardens in Vauxhall. It was especially good to welcome Amy to her first ever Goodgym session!

The Community Healing Gardens is a gorgeous green haven in the middle of an otherwise built-up area, which provides residents with essential outdoor space, and a habitat for birds and other wildlife. The volunteer team have recently planted mixed native hedge whips around the perimeter of the garden and our mission today was to give these freshly planted areas a bit of TLC to encourage growth.

We were given a warm welcome from Head Gardener Hugh, and then joined local residents Hannah, Neha and Stella, as well as Gareth from Friends of the Earth Lambeth, to tackle the tasks…

🌿 Ben and Michael filled a huge planter with soil

🌱 Tracey and Katie weeded the beds where the new hedges had recently been planted

🍃 Amy filled in potholes in the lawn and collected litter

Once those jobs were completed, we all took it in turns to fill wheelbarrows with mulch to put down in the freshly weeded beds to discourage weeds.

As if by magic, two flasks of tea and a Victoria sponge cake appeared just at the perfect moment for a well-earned break!

We all agreed that many hands make light work, and that we like the Healing Gardens very mulch - hopefully we’ll be back soon!

It was a good day, even though there weren't many donations this week, but everyone was able to take some food home.

Today two goodgymers assisted the VGCC foodbank volunteers prepare for the foodbank service on Friday from 12pm to 2pm, by cutting up vegetables as well as unloading and sorting food deliveries.

GoodGym Lambeth Run Report 🏃‍♀️💨 Four the Love of the Planet! 🌍

Well, well, well… what do we have here? Not ONE, not TWO, not THREE, but FOUR shiny new faces joining the GoodGym Lambeth crew this week! 🎉

That’s right — we didn’t just pick up litter, we picked up people too. Welcome to the fold, Treena, Paul, Dann & Kirsty, who clearly decided that finishing a long shift at work just wasn’t quite enough suffering for one day. Respect. 💪🏼🍾

The Task: Not a Twozy. Not Even a Threezy… Wait, Actually Yes a Threezy. 🗑️ This week’s mission was an absolute trash of a good time (in the best possible way).

We went full triple-threat with: 🗺️ GoodGym classic litter picking 🌊 Planet Patrol 🧴 The Big Plastic Count The goal? Grab as much recycling and plastic as humanly possible and give our community a well-deserved glow-up. And boy, did we deliver.

Several black bags filled to the brim and safely recycled — that’s not just good deeds, that’s re-MARK-able work. You could say we really bagged this one. 😱🤩

The planet is cleaner, our legs are tired, and our hearts are full. See you next week — and Treena, Paul, Dann & Kirsty, you’ve got no excuses now. You already know we’re worth the post-work schlep! 😊❤️

Keep running. Keep doing good. Try not to step in anything suspicious. 🫡​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Today I assisted the Vauxhall Gardens Comm-Unity Centre foodbank in serving Lambeth residents who were very appreciative

Today we had 3 goodgymers, one of us has completed over 100 deeds, another over 50 deeds and one doing their first ever deed. Wow. We all helped the volunteer team at Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre prepare for tomorrows foodbank. Amazing teamwork.