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!

Three GoodGym volunteers assisted Vauxhall Garden Community Centre foodbank, core volunteers with food deliveries, sorting, and packing food donations for families in need . It's all for a good cause and the vibes are souper, there are lots of friendly faces, plenty of laughts, and just enough lifting to count as a workout.

Received groceries for our clients on Friday. Prepared for Friday.

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! 🌱❤️

Helped tidy up the back garden for Mr A

This was a full 3-hour mission at Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre (VGCC), supporting the weekly food bank from the first private donations of the morning through to two further deliveries from The Felix Project and Tesco. The early donations included essential hygiene items such as toilet rolls, diapers, body wash, and haircare products including shampoos and conditioners.

By the end of the week, VGCC aims to support more than 100 vulnerable local residents in urgent need of food and basic necessities, so careful preparation was needed to ensure everyone left with enough.

The morning involved lifting, unloading, sorting, printing and attaching best-before labels across a wide range of food items. These included essential vegetables such as carrots, cabbages, onions, potatoes, broccoli and parsnips; fruit including bananas and lemons; frozen meat; cans of soft drinks; bread and fresh items such as brownies and other snacks.

It was a rewarding mission, and a clear reminder of how much careful preparation goes into keeping a community food service running smoothly.