Stephen Tolfree

Join us for a social walk in the South Downs National Park. This is one of the most magnificent and justifiably well known walks in England. We will walk from Seaford Station to Eastbourne along the white chalk cliffs via Cuckmere Haven, Birling gap and Beachy Head.

Distance: 13 miles / 20km with 500m of ascent (lots of ups and downs for each of the "sisters"). I anticipate that the walk will take about 5 hours, plus time for breaks. Please bring plenty of water and a packed lunch. We will find a fish and chip shop in Eastbourne before getting the train home.

Logistics. I've put the location as Bethnal Green so it shows up in our events but we will be meeting in Victoria station (outside WH Smith) at 9.05 before getting the 9.24 train to Seaford (changing at Lewes). Buy a day return from London to Seaford and then in Eastbourne buy an additional single ticket from Eastbourne to Lewes. If you have a Network Card you and three companions get 1/3 off, or if you buy your ticket on a group of 3 or more you can get a group save ticket which also saves 1/3 so it's worth arriving early and buddying up to buy tickets.

Join us for a return to park run in mile end for a 5km run and then we'll head to the nearby international comrades cafe for a coffee together. It's a run not a race all abilities welcome. After the run we'll gather near the coffee van and then walk to the cafe.

I couldn't list the location for the meet up point - mile end park run starts on the canal side of mile end stadium in the park.

Course Description The course consists of a two laps always running on the left hand side of the double paths. Starting in front of Mile End Stadium through Mile End Park and over the Green Bridge. Along the canal towpath turn right to loop behind the Art Pavilion then follow the path over the Green Bridge back to the stadium. A "turning point" will be marked; turn and repeat for a second lap. Finishing on the grass in front of the stadium

There's no warm up so do your own written you arrive early. The event starts by welcoming new comers and thanking the volunteers. And the run starts at 9am (so get there early). There are volunteers to show you the route which is straightforward as you just follow the people in front of you. If you've registered online (which is free - but if you haven't registered you can still run) and brought a printed bar code you will have your bar code scanned at the end and your time will be emailed to you a few hours later. More information can be found here: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/mileend/

And to register go here https://www.parkrun.org.uk/register/

We're one of the three areas invited to get on board with the new Trees for Street campaign in Tower Hamlets! And there's work to be done... In this first phase of our partnership, we take to the streets with the Trees for Streets crew, in teams armed with maps and highlighters in a quest to discover our fittest flyer-ers.

What we will be doing

• We meet in our usual Summer spot by Chiringuito at 6:45 for a briefing by the Trees for Streets team.

• We'll warm-up before dividing into teams to head out to neighbouring streets most densely-populated by houses.

• Our teams will be divided up into fitness ability: those runners among us will be heading to further-away streets; the walkers to those closer by. But the end goal is the same - to see who can flyer the most houses in an hour...

• We'll return to base, where the winners will claim a prize!

We'll also be collecting any spare shoes (women's, men's and children's) for the Care4Calais team tonight, which we'll run across the road before we start our leafleting, so do bring these if you have any.

A social evening in the park where we will be playing rounders, kubb and any other park games you'd like to bring. This is a social evening so please bring something to drink and a picnic blanket. Please feel free to bring friends along as it's a social event and the more the merrier.

So this is fun. Tonight we become part of the I am Team GB campaign GoodGym have been invited to join this year. Yep, we're going to do our bit to increase sporty participation in our borough by creating yet another fun-filled night of activity.

Okay, what's the plan then?

• We meet at Museum Gardens for a biscuit and a chat before making our way to Victoria Park.

• You can run, walk or cycle - we will cater for all.

• We'll join the Victoria Park rangers team for a busy hour of activity. Tasks will include moving a pile of sand to the V&A Playground, and a litter-pick on the West of the park.

• We'll finish with just one victory lap of the gorgeous sandy running track adjacent to our task. A suitably sweaty high-five to all your effort this evening.

Choose from tonight's tasks: gardening with Margaret at Hollybush or litter-picking and weeding at Meath Gardens.

What's happening tonight?

• We'll be meeting in Museum Gardens at 6:30pm for a warm-up and briefing.

• At 6:45pm we'll be leaving for Hollybush Gardens to 'drop off' a small group for an urgent gardening task.

• For those who fancy a longer run, we'll then speed down Roman Road, to help Joanna and the team pick some litter and pull some weeds in Meath Gardens.

• At 7pm and 8pm we will also host two slots for donation drops in Meath Gardens, for Care4Calais' clients, new temporary residents of Bethnal Green, who could do with a hand on the clothing and tech front. (Tulio from Care4Calais will collect this at 8pm).

• Items needed for the donation drop include:

1) Menswear in small or medium sizes, particularly summer wear and sportswear.

2) Men's shoes, up to size 10, and especially shoe sizes 8 & 9.

3) Old, unwanted tech: smartphones and tablets.

If you want to join the run and you're bringing items, we will all help carry them down to the task on our run!