It was a 🌞 17-degree day at VGCC as 3 GG-ers kicked off by unloading 2 huge deliveries packed with crates of fruit, veg, milk, bread, snacks, cheesecake, protein bars and meat.

🥔🧅 Once everything was inside, we quality checked onions and potatoes for crate-mixing before safely storing them. Jessica wasted no time in splitting a massive sack of penne pasta into various smaller, equally weighed bags. Susan and Chandrima tackled various packets of chicken, dividing the packets into smaller portions of 11 pieces, carefully labelling halal and non-halal meat before storing it safely in the freezer.🐔

🥛🧀 We also made sure all the milk, cheese and yoghurt were stowed away in chilled storage, crate-mixed the protein bars 💪 and crisps, quality checked the fruits (bananas and raspberries) before their safe storage, then finished up by cleaning down every surface and breaking down the cardboard boxes for recycling so the space was spotless and ready for the next session! 🧽♻️

There is no greater feeling than standing shoulder to shoulder with people who care. Today, thanks to 6 amazing GoodGymers and the tireless VGCC team, we were able to serve our community with speed and a smile. It’s more than just a meal, it’s about making sure everyone feels seen and cared for. We are endlessly grateful for this family!

Today was a productive day, involving a quick setup for tomorrow's clients, such as packing chicken, filling sauces into containers, sorting arrivals, and logging deliveries.

On a mild Lambeth evening, our GoodGym superstars turned up in gooseberry great numbers for a task that was truly berry satisfying. 💪🏼🍾🌿

Our mission: dig out several gooseberry bushes and relocate them (via barrows!) to the orchard garden behind the church. And honestly? It was completed in no time — proving once again that many hands make light work… and strong legs make lightly complaining work. 😅🚜

Now, we can’t confirm there was extra speed in the air… but we may have been powered by the knowledge that an end-of-month social was waiting for us. Motivation? ✅ Relocation? ✅ Social-ocation? Also ✅ 🤗

Huge thanks to Adam and Nicole, our absolute legends of the evening, who hosted us and did not disappoint: food, drink, and board games aplenty! ❤️🍕🍻🎲 (Let it be known: we came to transplant bushes, but we stayed to transplant ourselves into competitive board-game personalities.)

A wonderful time was had by all — and yes, we definitely got to know each other a LOT better too 😏😂. By the end of the night, we’d also uncovered the true solution to modern life’s troubles: a cucumber suit, tequila, salami t-shirts, and a very active ‘social life’. 🥒👔🍹🥓😄

So, to summarise: we moved bushes, moved barrows, and moved straight into chaos (the fun kind). Until next time, Lambeth — stay berry brilliant! 🍇✨💚

GoodGym Lambeth Run Report: Mulch Ado About Something! 🌿🏃‍♀️

Lambeth AA was away with work, but fear not — Tilly valiantly stepped in and led the charge like a true capTAIN of cardio. With spirits high and shoelaces tightened, we headed out to get fit while doing good… and boy did we deliver.

This week’s mission: mulch mulch mulch (and then, for variety, a bit more mulch). We got properly stuck in with heaps of green-fingered activity — spreading, shifting, tidying and turning the area into a mulch improved masterpiece. Let’s just say we really put the “stand” in “outstanding horticulture”.

Huge kudos to everyone for mucking in (literally). It was sweaty, soil-sational, and thoroughly com-positive in the best way.

Brilliant work, team — we absolutely smashed it… and then mulched it. 🌱👏

I went round and helped Ms K to get the bags out of the room and to go through them - most of them were kitchen items or clothes which we sorted into the right spaces. Ms K was seemed to be happy that we'd been able to sort through and find the things she needed (eg towels) as well as getting rid of things she didn't want, and we had a good chat while I was there!