Southwark News

• She's been doing good since May 2016, she's a powerhouse and represents everything that is GoodGym. Helena just reached 200 good deeds! Which meant she got the honour of wearing the shiny new GoodGym cape! Give her a cheer here.

• It was Pauline's last run today as she's finished her law studies and is going back to France. We'll miss you Pauline!

• There's a Great Get Together community mission on Saturday to set up the Bankside Open Spaces Trust. The Great Get Together was set up in honour of Jo Cox to fight divisive politics and bring people together. Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week it's a shorter run (3km overall) and we're going back to Cossall Estate to help tidy up and tend to their raised beds. Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Wednesday evening means Old Spike is the place to be. We gathered in the cafe as we always do and had a special briefing to celebrate Helena's 200th good deed. What an incredible milestone! Here's a gif of her in her cape and tiara.

Aloha to Richard, Jared, Sam and Harriet who joined us for the first time last night!

We set off on a steady 3.5km run to Galleywalll Nature Reserve which is a special space in Southwark that's been protected from being built on by the Friends of Galleywall Nature Reserve for over 15 years. There's two ponds (with a new one coming along), allotment plots, a polytunnel, a composting loo and a new water-gathering prototype.

We got to work on several tasks:

• Sawing logs for the fire

• Pulling up nettles and weeds

• Bagging up fully broken down compost

We got so much done in 30 minutes, Christine and Olly were delighted. We said our thank yous, took a group photo and set off just as it started to rain. A perfectly timed rain storm to soothe the nettle stings! Although we did get COMPLETELY soaked on the way home. It had stopped by the time we got back to Old Spike and we did some well-earned stretching.

Great work team! See you next week.

Lucy J

Southwark News

• This Saturday we're doing a parkrun takeover at Dulwich parkrun which means providing all the volunteer positions and some pacers! We're looking good for volunteers but could do with more friendly faces! FInd out more and sign up on the website here.

• Tuesday 4th June is the big GoodGym x Team London run from City Hall. It's an amazing opportunity to get involved in a huge GoodGym event in conjunction with the Mayor's Office. FInd out more and sign up here.

• Next week it's longer run to prep the shutters at a charity shop in Rotherhithe for painting the following week. It's 5km there and an option to get the overground back from Rotherhithe. Or you can meet us there! It's a brand new task, it'll be fab. Find out more and sign up here.

That's enough of the business

Last night 9 runners ran 2km to Nunhead Library to litter pick and weed the garden. After a briefing five of us started to warm up round the corner when we were joined by Conner, Jameson, Luke and Quinlan who'd come all the way down from a meeting in Kensington to come and join us.

We headed off to Nunhead Library to meet Nell who would show us into the back garden for more litter picking and weeding. Unfortunately she wasn't there but we cracked on anyway. Three full bags of rubbish later and we started to pull up some old weeds - why not make the place look ship shape!

An enormous welcome to Liv, Ellie, Charlotte, Luke, Jameson and Conner who all joined us for the first time today. The first of many good deeds!

Finished at Nunhead Library we went over to Nunhead Green for a game of heads, shoulders, knees and cone with burpees for forfeits. It got down to a pretty tense final. Excellent work everyone, some super reaction times! We then headed back to Peckham Rye where we stopped off for a round of Sally Squats to Flower by Moby. A favourite of Conroy at GoodGym Croydon's apparently - we're in good company!

An awesome first time for 6 new runners, I hope to see you again soon.

Great work team.

Lucy J