What better way to kick off the monthly social than with a sweeping success? 🌟 A magnificent seven — Fi, Adam, Michael, Ben, Nicole, Katie, and Jo — descended on Holy Trinity, ready to make the orchard garden the belle of the bower. 💪🏼🍾

With Nicole, Adam, and Naomi on home turf to lead the charge, the crew got straight down to business in the orchard garden, where weeds had been living rent-free for far too long. 🌿😤 Hoes were wielded, scrapers were scraped, brooms were swept with panache, and bags were filled with the kind of righteous fury only a GoodGym volunteer can muster. Under new management: this garden. 🏡✨

It’s fair to say the team made a clean sweep of the place — leaving paths cleared, beds tidied, and the whole space looking absolutely broom-tiful. 😱🤩 Some might say it was a brush with perfection. We couldn’t possibly comment. 🧹

The orchard didn’t know what hit it — and by the end, neither did the weeds. Gone. Bagged. Swept under the rug of history. 🪣🌸

After all that hard graft, the monthly social awaited — and frankly, no one had ever earned a drink more. 🥂❤️

Big love to Nicole, Adam, and Naomi for having us, and to the whole crew for showing up and showing out. Until next time, Lambeth — stay sweeping. 🧹💚

What do you get when you mix seven GoodGym legends, a historic windmill, and a mountain of woodchip? Pure, unadulterated mill-ificence, that’s what. 🤩

This week, Tilly, Adam, Michael, Marie-Noelle, Nicole, Katie, and the brilliant Emma descended on the Waterworks allotments to lend a hand to Annick and Jean from the iconic Brixton Windmill. ❤️ And lend a hand we did — both of them, repeatedly, with shovels.

Emma was joining us for her second ever session and her first group run — and she didn’t just show up, she showed out, bringing the extra scoop on our Million Acts of Hope crossover. Turns out we weren’t just doing good deeds — we were contributing to something genuinely huge. 💪🏼🍾 No pressure, but we may have helped save the world. Provisionally.

The task list was, shall we say, eclectic. We shovelled and shifted woodchip to lay a brand new path (the glow-up was real 😱), got stuck into some serious weeding and pruning, carefully sorted edible leaves from the compost (a surprisingly meditative experience), and rounded things off with a litter pick to leave the whole place gleaming. ✨🌿

In short: we came, we chipped, we conquered. Annick and Jean — it was an absolute pleasure. The allotment looks windmill-iant. 🌬️

See you next week, you beautiful lot! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

What’s better than a Tuesday run? A Tuesday run where you get to haul a 110-litre water beast across South London while looking incredibly cool doing it. 😎💦

Our five-strong squad — Tilly, Adam, Dan, Marie-Noelle, and a freshly-legged Michael (back from conquering the Birmingham HALF MARATHON, no big deal 🏅) — rolled up ready to get their hands dirty for the lovely Heather from Wyck Gardens / Friends of Loughborough Park. ❤️

And dirty hands they got! The mission? Essentially full park glamour: lugging the magnificent 110-litre water tank (affectionately known as The Beast 😱) across to the park, plus a trolley groaning with watering cans — because if you’re going to water, you may as well commit. Cue the weeding, the pruning, the litter-picking, and the general act of making somewhere beautiful again. 🌸✂️🗑️

It’s safe to say Loughborough Park got the full GoodGym treatment — equal parts elbow grease and good vibes. Heather, we hope the plants know how lucky they are. 🌱🤩

Big love to the whole crew — you showed up, you grafted, and you proved once again that GoodGym Lambeth doesn’t just run to good causes… we run them. 💪🏼🍾 Until next time — stay green, stay gorgeous, and maybe stretch your lower back after carrying a small swimming pool’s worth of water. Just a thought. 😅

Run more, do more, be more — GoodGym Lambeth 🏃‍♀️💚​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What a Tuesday! The GoodGym Lambeth crew descended on the Woodlawns Centre armed with rakes, good vibes, and apparently a keen eye for unexpected discoveries. 👀

Fi, Ben, Patrick (welcome back, stranger! 🎉) and the fully-restored Adam — back to his best like a freshly serviced lawnmower — showed up ready to make a difference for The Lunch Club Streatham, who use Woodlawns for half their service days. ❤️

These are the people feeding the community, so the least we could do was make sure their garden isn’t a leafy, twiggy obstacle course.

And boy, did we deliver. We’re talking many. MANY. bags of leaves — composted, not binned, because we’re environmentally virtuous like that 🌱.

Litter was picked. Twigs were sorted (yes, twig sorting is a skill and yes, we have it). The pathway was cleared to a standard that would make a Chelsea Flower Show judge weep with joy. 😭🌸

But the highlight? Nestled amongst the foliage like a peculiar nature reserve exhibit: one twin pack of unopened condoms. 😱 We will not speculate. We will simply note that the garden is clearly a space full of life and possibility. 🤩

The Woodlawns garden is now ready for everyone to enjoy — which is the whole point, isn’t it? Community spaces, cared for by communities. That’s what we’re about. 💪🏼🍾

Big love to Fi, Adam, Ben and Patrick for getting stuck in. Same time next week? 🏃​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​