Our wonderful GG Lambeth team met at Papa's yesterday and we were delighted to have a special guest speaker (it was a bit like Primary School!) in the form of Dyfed who is chair of the Papa's Park Committee of volunteers.

He took the group through the exciting plans for the park and community centre and we discussed ways that GoodGym could support this going forward - we are of course happy to help out our friends however we can.

And so Ben, Tilly, Dan & Fi set off with AA Yianny to Jennie Lee Gardens over at King's College Hospital's sprawling campus, a nice flat route but slightly longer than most runs recently so a real workout when paired with the task.

Conversation this evening was focused around the awesome holidays people were either going on soon or just returning from.... thanks for sharing guys ;0( (joking!!)

We were met by Heidi on site who had prepared 6 shovels and two wheel barrows for us to move compost from the 4 one tonne bags outside the gardens to the bag and planters inside - simple hard graft shovelling sh** - a GG classic.

By the end of the session not only had we done our gym session but added a km to our running going back and forth while preparing two planters to be used by the patients as part of their rehab, we were feeling pretty good and it was time to head back.

There is still plenty to be moved so keep your eyes peeled for a follow up session in early March.

Thanks to all and see you next time :0)

We were back at Papa's last night for the group session and our task was to spruce and tidy the place up and had a lovely group of 6 volunteers ready and looking forward to helping out.

First things first we welcomed a new GGer to the group - Alicia wonderful to have you with us!

After a quick document check three of the group - Tilly (back for 2025!), Ben (racking up those session nos!) and AA Yianny headed out for a 3km ring round the local streets to get warmed up and our heart rates going before arriving back at Papa's to get started on our task.

With Michael and Batman - sorry Adam now with us (sorry Adam I simply couldn't resist....) black bags were issued and then the group headed along the railings to dig up all the weeds which have made their re-appearance as they do since we last tidied up! 6 or 7 black bags later we had completed all the borders which was very satisfying and the group could enjoy some sweet treats before heading off home for well deserved dinner.

It's the final week of the January Challenge so if you are able to make it down to any of the Community Missions please do - let's see how close we can get to our target!

See you next time :0) https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/everyday-plastic-pull-tuesday-s-group-run-f7863da4-d175-4848-a302-72b04d87b963

A wonderful way to start 2025 was meeting our awesome Lambeth GGers and heading out for the first group session of the year.

It was a triple celebration session and so with the blessing of the group I will keep the run report mercifully brief and cut the waffle so here we go:

• Lambeth GGers are amazing and came out in good numbers in the freezing cold
• We ran to Clapham to rescue Xmas trees not collected by the council and taking up pavement space
• We dragged, carried and dropped them at the Clapham Common collection site
• A fantastic 35 trees were collected to be composted and reused by Lambeth Council

Quote of the evening from Daniel on his 2nd ever session "There is only upside to this GoodGym thing!"

We ended the eve with some sweet treats as well.

Much love to everyone, on with the January Challenge and I look forward to seeing you next time!