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? 🏃​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What a night! GoodGym Lambeth were back out in force for one of our favourite combos: a proper graft followed by a proper social.

The dream team of Fi, Ben, Katie, Tilly, Michael, Jo, task owner Nicole, and the brilliant Naomi from HTC assembled, ready to take on whatever the evening threw at them. 💪🏼

(A special shoutout to Adam, who had to pull out with an injury before the fun began — wishing you a speedy recovery, mate! We’ll keep a weed-pulling glove warm for you. 🧤)

The Task: Holy Weed-moley 🌱😤 Tonight’s mission took us to the vicarage, where the garden had clearly been taking its vows a little too seriously — specifically the vow of uncontrolled growth. We’re talking weeds. Weeds upon weeds. A veritable congregation of weeds. If weeds could form a church, this would’ve been their cathedral. 🌿⛪

Our lot got stuck in with the kind of righteous enthusiasm that frankly the clergy would approve of. Pulling, digging, bagging — the whole holy trinity of garden clearance. By the time we were done, the vicar could actually see the garden again. We didn’t quite part the sea of greenery, but we gave it a very good go. Check out the pics for proof! ❤️📸

The Social: What Do You Meme? (More Like What Do You SCREAM) 😱🤩 Post-weeding, the team descended on the Tulse Hill Hotel for the monthly social, where What Do You Meme? was unleashed upon an unsuspecting group of tired volunteers. Reader, it did not stay innocent for long.

Michael appeared to have some kind of mystical connection to the card deck, pulling out banger after banger like a comedy magician. 🪄 Tilly, meanwhile, finally — finally — broke her duck and claimed a well-deserved round win (the crowd went appropriately wild 🎉). Nicole made a late surge to the finish with all the energy of someone who’d spent the evening battling overgrown weeds and still had gas in the tank.

As for the female sanitary products, we have agreed collectively to never speak of this again.... An absolutely brilliant evening all round. Weeds vanquished, memes survived, community strengthened. This is what GoodGym Lambeth is all about. 🏃‍♀️💚

See you next time — and Adam, get well soon! 🙏​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ You had to be there. On reflection, perhaps it’s better that you weren’t. 🫣

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What a Tuesday evening! While the rest of London was busy grinding to a halt (tube strikes, police incidents, and the general chaos of just existing in this city 😅), our GoodGym Lambeth legends were already pivoting like pros — heading straight to the task like the well-oiled volunteer machines they are. 💪🏼

And what a team showed up! The brilliant Fi, Adam, Ben, and Katie were out in force, but the real plot twist of the evening? A surprise appearance from the one, the only, the magnificent Nicole 🍾🎉 — or possibly her AI body double (we’re choosing to believe it was the real deal 🤖👀).

The mission? Heading to Brixton Library to join the wonderful Annick, her friend Anouck, and the Friends of Brixton Library for an evening of weeding, watering, DIY and general sprucing up of the outdoor spaces. Think of it as a glow-up, but for a library. 💅🌱

Armed with trowels, determination and an impressive collective tolerance for getting their hands dirty, the team got stuck in — pulling up weeds, giving the plants a much-needed drink 💧 and making the whole space look lovely since being absolutely overdue for some love. (See what we did there? It’s a library. 📖 We’ll see ourselves out.)

The results? Stunning. The vibes? Immaculate. The puns? Clearly unstoppable.

Check out the pics — the space looked absolutely incredible by the end, and it’s all thanks to this lot ❤️😱🤩

Big love to Annick, Anouck and the Friends of Brixton Library for having us — we had the best time and can’t wait to come back! 🙌

Until next time, Lambeth! 🏃💚​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​