Catchers in The Rye

Southwark News

• Tonight is the GoodGym London social and it's happening in Waltham Forest - find out more and sign up here.

• Next week we need lots of hands on deck to move tonnes (literally, tonnes) of mulch at Camberwell Subterranea, it's an 8km run overall. FInd out more and sign up here.

• Community mission! Telegraph Hill Community Playclub needs our help with their garden on 16th March, keep an eye on the website when it's listed.

• The Big Half! Are you coming? Sign up here and let me know so we can try and arrange a drink after :)

That's enough of the business

Last night 7 runners ran 5km to raise awareness for GoodGym, LinkAge Southwark and Catchers in The Rye and we had a juggling workshop!

Catchers in the Rye is a community juggling club that happens every Thursday evening at All Saints church in Peckham. Juggling is great for coordination, neuromuscular development, stress-busting and more. We were very lucky to have Fergus who runs the club come and show us some skills last night. We started with one ball, moved onto two and then three. We made impressive progressive during our half hour session!

We had a ball! (or three)

After our juggling class we played Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Cone - a game that tests your ability to respond to a cue with speed and dexterity! It ended in a head-to-head between Lucy and Fergus which we both lost because we reached for the cone when David said 'juggle' instead of 'cone'. Sneaky!

We then headed out with leaflets for GoodGym, LinkAge Southwark and Catchers in the Rye to run 5km around Nunhead letting people know all about these awesome groups. We wiggled around Nunhead and ended up giving our last flyers to the Ivy House pub, a community pub that we'll hopefully be running to sometime soon!

Great work team, see you next week.

Lucy J