Today, two Goodgymers alongside several regular Vauxhall foodbank volunteers, lifted, sorted and packed several donated food items. We came across a huge lemon called a ponderosa. You can make a refreshing Guyanese drink called Swank from this fruit. Google it to find out how 🍋🍋🍋. We also took it in turn to guess the weight of the water melon. It range from very heavy, heavy and not so heavy. 🍉

Four Goodgymers attended today 's session and worked together like a dream!

The evening's planned collab with Friday Night Lights didn't come to pass but that doesn't mean that Lambeth GoodGym wasn't ready to party.....

The team met as usual at Papa's and 6 trusty GGers including a new face were ready to crank up the tunes and head out to the task. The group offered a warm welcome to Manos for his first ever GG session - great to have you with us Mano!

We set off with AA's rather clunky speaker blaring out Motown hits through Brixton during rush hour and of course nobody batted an eyelid as many a stranger thing has been seen than a group of red clad runners partying to Ben E King and Bill Withers!!

On arrival at the Tulse Hill estate we were greeted by: - A very enthusiastic resident who danced with us in the car park despite being on CRUTCHES! - Alfred the very protective and excited dog - And our host Vinnie who had arranged the task for the evening

The task was a classic lift 'n' shift, grab all the timber and relocate it from the playground to the polytunnelas well as a massive roll of underlay and some pin boards, then dispose of the pallets by the recycling bins. We had serious muscle with us so while Alfred serenaded us with barking Ben, Manos, Scott, Tilly and Fi grabbed as much as they could and we were done in no time.

Task completed and Vinnie was delighted (Alfred maybe less so?) and so we loaded up Spotify to disco classics and were able to boogie our way all the way home.

Big thanks to all and see you next time (oh and Scott I'm expecting you to follow through on that 80s fancy dress in the coming weeks!)

Today, Sue and Brenda helped with sorting and packing at Vauxhall foodbank, and found out that they had the same reason for volunteering.

As AA Yianny had to travel unexpectedly the GG team stepped in and Fi kindly covered the group run this Tuesday.

Feedback from the team was that it was all fine and dandy. Fi and Ben ran together from Papas and met Paul, Adam and Michael at the task.

The group chopped 6 big holly bushes right back (with some secateurs) which took up the whole time available Helping to not block the windows and provide a bit more light ahead of spring.

Big thank you to Fi and the whole group for stepping in / up and delivering another excellent task.

See you all next time!

Goodgymers Anna and Brenda raced through collecting the food donation delivery, then sorting it and finally packing it a way under the guidance of Melvin and Alison at the Vauxhall foodbank.