What an absolute cracker of an evening, Lambeth! 💪🏼

Tonight’s task force assembled in style: Katie, Ben, Jo, Fi, Nicole and yours truly, AA Yianny, hit the streets — and because it was our monthly social, we got extra reinforcements in Adam, Michael and Tilly. Bigger squad, bigger impact! 🍾

We went full GG classic tonight with a Litter Pick Bingo — and Lambeth did NOT disappoint. We picked, we sorted, we scratched our heads at some genuinely bizarre finds (we won’t ask, we don’t want to know 😱), and left the streets looking significantly more sparkly than we found them. Full house on the bingo card, several question marks on the mystery items. A+ prep for game night, if we do say so ourselves. ❤️

But the real headline tonight: Katie hit 200 tasks for GoodGym. 200! 🥰 Task Force superhero, social media guru, and general ray of sunshine — Katie, we are so unbelievably proud of you. That’s not a milestone, that’s a monument. Take a bow. 👏

Then it was straight into the social — baked goods, pizza, laughs, the occasional happy tear, and a room full of the loveliest weirdos Lambeth has to offer (said with maximum affection). 🤩

Great pick, great people, great cake. See you next week, legends! 🏃💚

Big squad energy at GoodGym Lambeth this evening 💪🏼 — bumper turnout, loads of new faces, and our regular crew bringing the vibes as always: Katie, Ben, Jo, Marie-Noelle, Dan and AA Yianny holding it down. 🍾

And the warm welcomes don’t stop there! A massive GG hello to newbies Romi, Ark and Zain 🥳 — you survived your first session, you’re basically family now! And a special shoutout to Libby, who came back for another GG fix 😊 — once is a taste, twice is a habit, you’re one of us now!

Tonight’s mission: Windmill Gardens, helping the brilliant Jean and Annick tackle a jungle situation. The plastic fencing was holding back a weed invasion that had basically adopted the new whips as roommates 🏠🌿, so out came the fence, out came the weeds, and back up went the fence — teamwork makes the fence work! 🔧 There was litter picking, Ark got hands-on with watering duty 💦, and a serious amount of compost-worthy greenery got sent off to start its next life. ♻️

Bonus plot twist: Jean let slip there’s a spot of Shakespeare in the park next Friday 🎭 — not an official GG outing, but “to GG or not to GG” might just be the wrong question when there’s culture on offer. 😱🤩

Brilliant effort all round, Windmill Gardens — see you next time! 🏃‍♀️❤️

Despite the weather doing its best impression of a furnace, an awesome crew turned up undeterred this evening: Dan (more on him in a moment), Tilly, Katie, Fi, Libby and AA Yianny 💪🏼🍾.

Huge welcome to Libby, who heard about GoodGym just ONE HOUR before at work and decided "yep, sounds like a great way to spend a sweltering Tuesday evening" — first session smashed, no regrets (we hope) 🎉. And a massive shoutout to Dan, who hit his big 5-0... tasks that is, not earth years, so still very much in his prime 😊🥳.

Tonight's mission: helping Alex and the residents of Huggins Corner Park get on top of their stone paths. We spread stones, cleared the excess, and shipped the surplus off on a road trip to the community planting garden and Palace Road nature garden — basically a stone relocation service, minus the removal van 🪨🚚.

It was hot, it was heavy, and frankly our biceps have never been more "gneiss" 😅. Rock-solid effort all round 😱🤩❤️ — see you at the next one!

A small but seriously mighty crew rolled up this evening — Michael, Ben, Tilly, Marie-Noelle and yours truly, AA Yianny 💪🏼🍾 — ready to whip the allotments into shape for Valcie's community summer BBQ.

And whip we did! There was weeding (lettuce just say the weeds didn't stand a chance 🥬), edging so sharp you could've used it to cut the salad, clearing, watering, and a deep clean that left the plots looking positively bbq-ready. We even turned into a furniture removal squad, hauling tables and chairs about like it was an Olympic sport (table-tennis, anyone? 🪑😅).

Five volunteers, one allotment transformation, zero complaints about the watering can splashback 😱🤩. Valcie's BBQ guests won't even know the weeds were ever there — though we definitely will, in our biceps tomorrow morning.

Thyme well spent, team. See you all at the next one! 🌱❤️