We had big plans for a summer picnic today — blankets, snacks, sunshine, the works. But with so much of our core crew off gallivanting elsewhere, we did what GoodGym Lambeth does best: pivoted straight into pure garden graft! 💪🏼

This week we headed to Papa’s Park to lend Valcie a hand, and the squad rolled up their sleeves for a proper tidy-up:

• 💧 Watering — yes, watering counts as a task (it’s for food production, we checked!)
• 🧹 Sweeping — no leaf left behind
• 🌿 Weeding — one small tug for a volunteer, one giant leap for the flowerbeds
• 🛍️ Bagging it all up — turning garden chaos into tidy little parcels of achievement

A stellar turnout from, Ben , Michael , Katie and Jo kept the energy high and the park looking sharper than ever.

Since this was meant to be a social at heart, the team wasn’t going to let a change of plans stop the vibes — an impromptu drink afterwards sealed the deal. 🍾 Proof that even when the picnic blanket stays folded, GoodGym Lambeth always finds a way to raise a glass to a job well done. 🧰❤️

Here’s to unexpected plot twists, park glow-ups, and the crew that shows up rain, shine, or picnic-cancellation! See you at the next one (which really will be a social!) 🏃🏽‍♀️🌱

Papa’s was the meeting point once again, and this evening’s crew assembled ready to put their best foot (and leaflet) forward: Ben , Fi, Libby , and yours truly, Yianny 💪🏼

Tonight’s mission? Pure, vital, community-shaking work: spreading the good word about GoodGym itself! 📣 Because if you’re going to run around doing good deeds, you might as well recruit a few more people to join in the chaos. Leaflets in hand, we canvassed the local area with the focus of a squad who takes “door to door” very literally — and we didn’t stop until every last flyer had found a new home. Mission: accomplished. Letterboxes: thoroughly GoodGym’d. 📬

Being a nice quick task, we even had time left over for the true reward of volunteering: an impromptu post-task tipple 🥂 Nothing says “we just promoted community fitness” quite like immediately sitting down for a well-earned drink. Balance, people. It’s all about balance.

Great work team — here’s to more leaflets, more laps, and more lovely little detours to the pub along the way 🍻❤️

Another scorcher, another squad of good eggs trading the sofa for a sweat sesh with a purpose! This week the Lambeth crew rolled back into Wyck Forest Gardens to reunite with the legend that is Heather, on a mission critical, code-red, hosepipe-adjacent task: watering 🥵💦

Turns out the recent heat has had the garden gasping worse than us after the run over — and the young whips (the apple, pear and friends contingent 🍏🍐) were in serious need of some TLC before they wilted into fruit salad prematurely.

On the team sheet today: Adam West, Ark , Ben , Katie , Michael , Rich and Yianny — seven brilliant humans who showed up to sweat first, hydrate plants second 💪🏼

The mission, soggily accomplished:

• 🛒 Two full trolley runs — basically a shopping spree, except instead of snacks we were hauling watering cans
• 🐘 One epic showdown with the 120kg water beast — if you know, you know. Respect to Rich who wheeled that unit without needing their own rehydration break afterwards
• 🧰 A generous helping of compost TLC, because even dirt deserves a little love ❤️

Whips watered, trolleys wrangled, water beast tamed — Wyck Forest Gardens is looking noticeably less crispy thanks to this lot. Heather, we’ll see you again soon (bring backup water beasts) 🥵🌱

Huge thanks to everyone who turned out — you ran so the young whips didn’t have to wilt. Same time next week? 😊🍾

Tuesday night saw a cracking turnout as the GoodGym Lambeth crew rolled up (quite literally, in the case of several carpets) at Annick’s beloved waterworks allotments for an evening of heavy lifting, heavier furniture-breaking, and general green-fingered good deeds 🌱💪🏼

The task at hand: rug rolling, shelf smashing, and some good old-fashioned digging about — basically an extreme home makeover, allotment edition. Annick’s plot has never looked (or felt) so un-furnished 🛋️➡️🗑️

On the team sheet tonight:

• Ben Margerison — hauling carpets like they owed him money
• Michael Welsh — bringing the muscle and the smiles
• Katie Allan — no stranger to a task, this Lambeth legend just keeps racking them up 🏅
• Tilly Baker Hine — gardening gloves on, ready for anything
• Jo Bowen — allotment royalty for the evening
• Dan — 50 tasks deep and still showing up to demolish some furniture 🔨
• Fi — sleeves rolled up, spirits high
• Rich — new face, instant legend
• Libby Cannon — welcome to the chaos, Libby! 🎉

Between us we shifted more old stuff than a Sunday car boot sale, and left Annick’s allotment looking positively spring-cleaned 🧹✨

And because it was the last Tuesday of the month, work quickly turned to well-earned play — the gang swapped trowels for pints and toasted a job well done at the social afterwards 🍾😊 Nothing quite like bonding over a shared dislike of a particularly stubborn Billy bookcase.

Great work all round, Lambeth — you moved mountains (of carpet) tonight! 🥰