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Lambeth

Tuesday 29th October 2019

Report written by Nicky Woodall (she/her)

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35 excellent runners gathered at Papa's Park for our group run tonight.

We said a huge Lambeth welcome to 6 brilliant new runners - Anna, Jessie, Emma, Isla, Kate and Harriet

Next, we heard about these exciting events coming up in Lambeth and our neighbouring areas:

Lots of lovely things to get involved with :)

It was also SPOTM week and this week's very well-deserved winner of a unique assortment of National Trust pens, Puregym freebies, a bookmark and possibly the world's smallest notebook was Shauna. Despite only joining GoodGym recently, Shauna is already on her 15th good deed and her 9th for October. Huge kudos and thank you!

And onto the main event aka tonight's task.

We split into two groups to run there, David and Charlotte leading a slightly longer run whilst George and Nicky led a more relaxed party pace troop.

On arrival, we surprised Karen with the size of our group but quickly split into teams, digging up stones around the veg plot, moving planks of wood and clearing the area around the Bug Hotel. After half an hour, Karen seemed very happy with what we'd done and we headed back to base to enjoy some delicious cake expertly baked by Becca and Angela

Great work everyone, thank you so much and hopefully see you at next week's group run for more getting fit and doing good.


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Agnes Riley Gardens
A green space for local residents to enjoy

The park is located next to a number of large social housing estates. Clapham Park Estate, just over the road, is being redeveloped and large numbers of people will be moving into the area. There are three primary schools in the immediate area, plus a new secondary school soon to be developed. We already have some very committed volunteers giving their time to gardening in the park and they have told us they would like some support to run weekly gardening sessions which can help people grow some of their own food. We also want to help children better understand where their food comes from.

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Attendees
Tom Benson
Isabel Sloman
George Clarkson
Steve Jenkins
Dawn Gibson
Tessa Hall
Anna Kinnersley
Aislin Mageean
Frances Collier-Wright
Gosia Rybacka
Michael Welsh
Zara
Nicky Woodall
Alfie
Caroline Jenkinson
Philip Woodall
David Ewens
Paul Fawcett
Charlotte Emms
Scott Lewis
Jessie Adams
Emma Szkolar
Angela
Anthony Regan
Louisa Mason
Rebecca Dowse
Shauna
Freddie Gray
Anna Hui
Lucy Stewart
Anna Lawson
Isla Black
Kate Gowing
Harriet Young
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Mark Gilyead
Mark Gilyead (he/him)

Wed 30th Oct 2019 at 12:45pm

Yessss well done everyone and lovely report Nicky! 👌