Southwark News

• Big Half community places! Normal price is £46 but we have 30 community spaces going for an absolute bargain of a tenner. The route is the first half of the London Marathon... but backwards... It's a great race and our community places close at the end of August so contact me lucyj@goodgym.org for info.

• THIS SATURDAY the lovely folks at GoodGym Lambeth are doing Clapham Common parkrun followed by a community mission to set up Stockwell Festival - get your weekend fix of good! Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week we're running to Southwark Tigers to spruce up their benches. Find out more and sign up here.

• 21st July GoodGym is manning an aid station at the Asics London 10k. You get some swag, it's a super fun day and you get free entry to either Hackney Half, Oxford Half or the next London 10k for volunteering. Bargain! Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Last night was a gorgeous evening and after a warm up that featured a cameo from a passing child who wanted to join in, we got running the 3km up through Dulwich Park to Bell House. It's a gorgeous Georgian House that now houses an educational charity. It's got stunning walled gardens and loads of vegetables growing. Sarah split us into three main groups:

• Watering the rose garden.

• Watering the vegetables patches and greenhouse.

• Weeding and de-mossing between the cracks of the patio.

We spent a good 30 minutes there working away - the patio looked fantastic by the time we left and I'm sure all the plants were very grateful for a drink. Before we left, Sarah told us a bit about the charity and the garden - there's a gardening group every Saturday morning at 9.30am right after parkrun at nearby Dulwich park, a perfect morning! We thanked Sarah and headed off back home, stopping en route in Dulwich park for a legendary game of Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Cone.

Great work team, see you next week!

Lucy J