GoodGymers joined the brilliant core team at Vauxhall Gardens Foodbank, helping to serve and support the local community. With over 100 customers coming through, it was another busy session and a real team effort.

Distribution runs from 12 noon to 3pm, and it’s a huge job, so we ideally need volunteers who can stay for the whole session. If you’re free on one of the upcoming days, or have flexible working and can spare a few hours, your help would be very much appreciated.

Every extra pair of GoodGym hands really does make a difference.

Another week, another crew of Lambeth legends lacing up for good! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ We set off from Papa's and ran to Windmill Gardens, where the weeds had clearly been plotting a takeover. 🌿😱

Our heroes Ben, Michael, Jo (who led the session ❤) Dan, Fi, Tilly (who baked!), Rich, RJ and Adam rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in. 💪🏼 There was weeding (we really got to the root of the problem 🪴), manual work (we nailed it 🔨), and general sprucing (we left the place looking trashy in the best possible way 🗑️✨).

Special shoutout to Dan, who dug so deep we think he found Australia. 🦘 Fi and Jo tackled the tasks like they owed them money 💸, and Ben, Michael and Adam had to share a teeny tiny pumpkin which didn't turn into a carriage. 🧰

Hats off to the whole team for being absolutely un-fork-gettable. 🍴🌻 Waterworks allotments is looking thyme-lessly gorgeous, and the community will love it! ❤️

Same time next week? We'll be there, ready to turnip and make a difference! 🥕😉

#GoodGymLambeth #FitnessWithAPurpose 🥰

Friday morning session at Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre saw us prepare food generously donated by City Harvest and the Felix Project on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, which we organised for a midday collection. With over 90 people expecting to use Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre food bank service, we needed to ensure we had enough food to give out - preparing fruits, vegetables, bread, pastries, snacks and canned foods.

We managed to sort the morning Delivery and arranged the storage area for preparation for our Customers in Friday.

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. 😎

All the food was delivered and shared on time, with enough for over 80 customers.