With AA Yianny away this week our fantastic Run Leader Joao was in charge of taking the group over to visit Holy Trinity!

Joao was being met by Jo on the way and Marie-Noelle and Paul at the task while Nicole and her team and James (aka Father Nature) were also there.

Check out the pictures taken by Jo and a big thank you to all, see you next week!

After a showery afternoon the weather broke just in time for our evening session helping out Jean and Annick from Brixton Windmill.

First arrival was Shiv who is a brand new GGer (great to have you join us Shiv!) closely followed by Becky who was sneaking in her 2nd session before heading away on hols. Michael was next and so completed the running group and of course being a famous GGer he was ideally placed to talk Shiv through all things GoodGym as we made our way to the Brixton Allotments.

On arrival we met with Annick and Jean who took us through the tasks for the evening and it was a big one with plenty of heavy lifting and shifting various items into the skip. We were also met by Marie-Noelle and Paul our resident walkers and ANOTHER new member of Lambeth community Kymm who also made her way directly to the task - welcome Kymm!

We had a shopping list of tasks including dumping green waste, shovelling and bagging woodchip, barrowing, throwing out heavy boards, pulling up multiple entangled carpets (!) and general tidy up. We also uncovered a toad's nest with 4 lovely specimens a bit surprised when their shelter disappeared but we were very careful to ensure they were all safe and well!

The team worked really hard and stayed a little longer than normal to get to a point we were happy with which shows the spirit of the group so huge thank you to all!

See you next time :0)

FINALLY! A beautiful summer's evening for us to enjoy, no base layer, no jacket, no leggings required and a lovely 5km run to boot.

Jo and AA Yianny met at Papa's and set off a bit earlier so we could have a few more minutes at the Kennington Park Centre for our gardening task. Sadly there is no way to avoid the slightly smoggy feel when the temparature heats up but by cutting through the park and flower garden we at least managed to get clear of that for a little bit.

Marie-Noelle and Paul arrived on their bikes and we met Kojo who showed us around the children's garden and handed out tools for us to get cracking chopping back the overgrown areas. We also had Flora cycle down for a first session back in a little while which was great!

Our main task was chopping things back or down, clearing it away and making sure that the children could see a big foxhole which has been dug so they don't go falling into it.

By 8pm we had cleared a big area and also had time to have a quick go on the play equipment :0) and so we split into cyclists and runners to make our way back to Brixton or home.

Big thanks to all and to Kojo for hosting us and see you next time!

Not a great deal to talk about task wise last night - Valcie has a community BBQ coming up and we were helping get the allotments looking sharp in preparation.

More excitingly we had a double celebration with both our Lambeth Summer Picnic and Tilly's Birthday so fun times with everyone chipping in and bringing a few snacks along to share!

Photos speak a thousand words so check out a small selection below and huge thanks to all for making it such a fun task and evening. Shall we do it again.....??!

See you all next time :0)

Ok looks like a bit of a typo slipped into the title of this week's run - my apologies ;0)

As AA Yianny was out of town Joao was ready to step in and lead the short run over to help out at Rush Common, just up Brixton Hill.

Sylvie (welcome back!), Louise and Jo (nice photos - thanks!) headed up to help out the Friends of finish off a community event getting residents to help clean up Rush Common.

Marie-Noelle also set off to find the group but the group worked so efficiently that it was almost pack up time before she could reach the group walking - sorry Marie-Noelle we will have plenty for you to do next week!

A mention also to Michael who planned to join but was unable to without somewhere to leave his bag - again we look forward to seeing you next week.

Thanks all and don't forget we have our summer picnic next Tuesday, check out the listing below, come along and bring something to share with the group if you can! https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/helping-at-landor-road-summer-picnic-tuesday-s-group-run

It was a beautiful early summer's evening and we were excited to head over to Holy Trinity for some liftin' and shiftin' and also to see the amazing progress of the straw hall which is 99% finished!

First and foremost we were delighted to welcome Sylvie for her first GoodGym session, a word of mouth referral (we love those) it was lovely to have you with us Sylvie :0)

Katie was also back with us and took a fantastic action photo on our run through Brockwell Park then Tilly and Michael also joined as we did GG Lambeth Book Club this evening - some great recommendations.

After a lovely flat route run through the park and then we were there to meet James (aka Father Nature), Nicole and Adam and split into two groups 1) to shovel woodchip and spread it round the borders to suppress weeds and 2) grab a mattock or a hoe and dig back the edges of Ivy's garden to clear the paths. Jo, Paul and Marie-Noelle were already there and hard at work so we had some catching up to do.

So enjoyable was tonight's task that we nearly lost track of time but by ten past eight we had pretty much done all the tasks and were ready to head home.

Huge congrats to Nicole and her team for the amazing work on the hall and gardens and still plenty of jobs to do going forward so we look forward to being back soon.

Thanks all and see you next week!

Last night we had a classic GG task on our hands - a good ole lift n shift - where we had to move two 1000kg bags of wood chip from the upper playground to the lower play garden at Jubilee Primary.

Let's Get Physical!

Run Leader Joao met AA Yianny, Fi and Tilly at Papa's while we planned to pick up Jo on our way and then meet our two walkers Liz (great to have you back with us!) and Marie-Noelle at the school.

It was a lovely run in the evening sun and we have now pivoted from GG Book Club to summer holz recommendations - Cyprus, Canada and Crete on the list for our runners - destinations beginning with other letters are available ;0)

With a lovely 18 degrees and sunny out everything was perfect and so we divided into two groups, one preparing the playground by weeding and clearing while the other shoveled (and bucketed) wood chip into a wheelbarrow then ran it down to be dumped.

The main challenge was having large steps between the playgrounds meaning we had to carry down the wheelbarrow and large bags but after a ten or so return trips all the mulch was moved and the playground was looking much better as well as safer for the kids to play on.

Juan has plenty more for us to do so we will be back at Jubilee Primary in two week's time - sign up here to get involved: https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/helping-juan-at-jubilee-primary-school-tuesday-s-group-run-a249a9e4-fa1e-4a89-b5db-b95b3c82da05

Big thanks to all and see you next week as we visit St Faith's to see the completion of the straw hall!