We headed out in dry, crisp conditions to help Tom from Lambeth Parks finish what we started at St Matthew's Peace Garden. Peace, quiet and a LOT of weeds. 🌱

The task was simple: edging, scraping and bagging up the grass and weeds from the paving. This time we had ALL the tools, including half moon edgers, shovels and brooms, while Adam turned up tooled up with hand edging tools. 🛠️ Absolute edge lord. 🥳

Ben, Katie, Tilly, Jo, Adam, Rich and Nicole (who may or may not have joined the task on her broom and made it a full bouquet of volunteers 💐) really did dig deep, and we left the paving looking so sharp it could cut. Nothing was left to chance, or to moss. 😱

A lovely evening for a run, with fun friends to share it with. Tilly brought baked goods to console our AA, who lost his namesake in Bake Off. Incredible as ever, Tilly, you absolute whisk-taker. 🧁 Another great task well done! 🧰❤️

It was also the end of month social, and we put our pub quiz winnings (a voucher, no less) to good use with a karaoke night. 🎤 RJ made his debut in his shiny new GG shirt, looking fresh off the press and ready to belt out a few tunes. 👕✨ What happens at karaoke stays at karaoke… 😉 but wonderful scenes were had. 🤩🍾

Until next time, GoodGym Lambeth: thyme to go and lawn-ch ourselves into the next task! 💪🏼

We headed out on what might have been the last evening of the Indian summer to Holy Trinity, one of our longer runs as darkness fell. 🌅🏃‍♀️

Our crew of Yianny, Ben, Michael, Katie, Jo, Fi, Adam, George and Nicole were thyme-ly arrivals (herb puns, anyone? 🌿). On arrival we met the walking and hill running crew (nice one, Fi 👏⛰️) and got cracking, helping Nicole, Adam and Naome with lopping, chopping and edging the paving areas. We really branched out with this one! 🪓

We had our head torches out for the first time in yonks 🔦, and the effect of filling 10 green bags will become clear in the morning! 🥳 Hopefully nobody leafs without noticing the difference. 🍃

Join us in a couple of weeks for some flyering for the People's Emergency Briefing at Holy Trinity in Nov! 😱📣

A lovely evening for it, fun friends to share with and another great task well done! 🧰❤️ You could say we really nailed the hedge-ucation. 😎

What a day for a GoodGym trail run! Yesterday we headed out onto Wimbledon Common, and despite it being October and technically Autumn, the weather hadn’t got the memo. It was a hot 20C and many of us found we regretted our decision to wear layers!

We welcomed Guldjan to her first GoodGym session - lovely to meet you! - and settled into a great pace. The trails were beautiful and leafy, with plenty of hills to keep things interesting. Along the way we explored some of the Common’s more exciting landmarks, including the Big Alp, Little Alp and the infamous Toast Rack. There was even the added excitement of navigating around the golf course and successfully avoiding being taken out by any stray golf balls! ⛳️

After a good run, we finished up at a pub that felt like we’d been transported to the countryside — the perfect place to cool down, relax and give ourselves a pat on the back.

A brilliant run, great company and plenty of ideas for where to explore next. Richmond was mentioned so keep an eye out for the next GoodGym trail adventure! 👀

Thanks everyone for making it such a fun one and to Catherine for plotting us a beautiful route. 🌿💪

We were due to help our friends at GROAD get their new venue ready at GreenWorks 🛠️. But Andrea got held up at their storage facility, so all we could manage was a spot of weeding outside. 🌿😅

But as GGers, when life gives you lemons 🍋... we head to the pub(for grown up lemonade)! The group finished early and made it to the social double quick, where Ben (despite his jet lag ✈️😴) had organised a quiz for us. It was a quizzical turn of events, but a wonderfully fun one!

GG Lambeth showed its competitive side (well, some of us did 👀), and our two teams took 1st 🥇 and 3rd 🥉 on the podium!! 🥳 Clearly we're as sharp with our brains as we are with our trowels 🧠

Join us next month at the social, when we'll be spending our winnings 💰 and making full use of the karaoke facilities 😱🎤🎙️ You have been warned!

A lovely evening, fun friends to share it with and another great task well done(ish)! 🧰❤️

Who was there: RJ 🌟, Amona 🌟, Yianny, Katie, Lucy, Tilly, Jo, Fi, Adam and Rich 💪🏼

🌟 = welcome to your first GoodGym session RJ & Amona we were delighted to have you with us, you rooted for us and it bloomed into a great night! 🌸🥰