Saw-ry seems to be the hardest wood

Southwark News

• She's been doing good since May 2016, she's a powerhouse and represents everything that is GoodGym. Helena just reached 200 good deeds! Which meant she got the honour of wearing the shiny new GoodGym cape! Give her a cheer here.

• It was Pauline's last run today as she's finished her law studies and is going back to France. We'll miss you Pauline!

• There's a Great Get Together community mission on Saturday to set up the Bankside Open Spaces Trust. The Great Get Together was set up in honour of Jo Cox to fight divisive politics and bring people together. Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week it's a shorter run (3km overall) and we're going back to Cossall Estate to help tidy up and tend to their raised beds. Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Wednesday evening means Old Spike is the place to be. We gathered in the cafe as we always do and had a special briefing to celebrate Helena's 200th good deed. What an incredible milestone! Here's a gif of her in her cape and tiara.

Aloha to Richard, Jared, Sam and Harriet who joined us for the first time last night!

We set off on a steady 3.5km run to Galleywalll Nature Reserve which is a special space in Southwark that's been protected from being built on by the Friends of Galleywall Nature Reserve for over 15 years. There's two ponds (with a new one coming along), allotment plots, a polytunnel, a composting loo and a new water-gathering prototype.

We got to work on several tasks:

• Sawing logs for the fire

• Pulling up nettles and weeds

• Bagging up fully broken down compost

We got so much done in 30 minutes, Christine and Olly were delighted. We said our thank yous, took a group photo and set off just as it started to rain. A perfectly timed rain storm to soothe the nettle stings! Although we did get COMPLETELY soaked on the way home. It had stopped by the time we got back to Old Spike and we did some well-earned stretching.

Great work team! See you next week.

Lucy J