All sparkly new at The Venue!

Wandsworth News

• Next week is a run to transform a community garden. There will be plenty of jobs - removing fences, cutting grass, varnishing and fixing benches and clearing the area in order to completely overhaul the area. Find out more and sign up here

• Fancy a longer run this week? Southwark are off to move 3 tonnes of compost for School Food Matters and it's a 10k run overall! Come and join us! Find out more and sign up here.

• Are you cheering or running the London Marathon? There will be a GoodGym cheerpoint outside Somerset House, sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Last night 10 runners ran 4km to do a deep clean at The Venue community centre near Battersea Park. Battersea Arts Centre is closed on Bank Holidays so our merry band met up ready to run!

After a briefing and warm up off we set to The Venue to meet Hada who set us to work cleaning windows, the bathrooms, clearing up the outside area and breaking down recyclable boxes. Cleaning products were an ingenious mixture of vinegar and washing up liquid - very effective and distinctive smelling!

After about 30 minutes we were finished, everything was sparkling clean, except one bit of bird poo on the outside of a high up window we couldn't reach - damn!

We downed tools, thanked Hada and took a team photo. Then it was off the Battersea Park to play a game of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Cone which ended up with knockout rounds and a very tense final.

Great work team!

Lucy J