Today, a group of runners from different areas - Southwark, Lewisham, Greenwich, and Camden - went along to the Crisis warehouse in Bermondsey. Some of us had been here back in November where we were sorting and cleaning ready for things to come and go for the Crisis at Christmas centres. Runners had come from different missions, starter sessions and parkruns; big shout out to Frances who came to the starter session in Surrey Docks Farm, smashed through the community mission training on the way over, and will be at 3 good deeds in her first four days of GoodGym!

On this occasion we'd been asked to prep things for loading into a truck - 2 people from Crisis were doing a valiant job of going through donations and supplies and seeing what needed to go to their charity shops, what needed to be recycled, and then it was time for GoodGym to help. We sorted and bagged up dozens of bags, and got them piled ready for collection, as well as sorting out different bits like clothing, bedding and shoes.

Within an hour and a half we'd bagged all that needed bagging, and hopefully been a big help to the team at Crisis by speeding that process along.

Southwark News

• We are as of today at the top of our league for the January challenge with 104 good deeds done so far this month and 832 collective kms run and it is constantly climbing. Blimey! That deserves a big pat on the back

• Next week we're going to Southwark Tigers on Burgess Park to fill a skip. It's a 6km run overall sign up here.

• We just turned 3 years old! In that time we have done some form of good 3580 times, including 1038 coach runs and 249 missions. That's a huge impact on the local community you should be proud to be a part of.

That's enough of the business

Saturday was a MASSIVE day (hence all the photos)! It started at 9am sharp with GoodGym tshirts dotted all over the place at Southwark parkrun. Dom marshalled and caught some snaps of some very happy runners. Nice one Dom!

We then gathered at the rather cosy Southwark Park cafe for a hot drink and in some cases a sausage sandwich. Gradually people began to arrive for the starter session and at 10.20am we started the briefing.

At GoodGym we get fit and do good in three special ways

Those ways are: Group runs, every Wednesday we meet at Old Spike Roastery on Peckham Rye at 18.45 to run to a local community project to do good. Missions: one off tasks done in an isolated person's home that improves their wellbeing eg. changing a lightbulb. Coach runs: pairing you up with an isolated older person in the community for weekly social visits.

After a warm up and intro we set off for the 1.6km to Surrey Docks Farm. On arrival we sought out Rachel who provided us with brushes and shovels and showed us into the goat enclosure. Our mission? Collect up all the poo! The scooped poop then went over to the steaming (literally, steaming) muck heap.

Scooper pooper GoodGym's gonna find ya

Having cleared the area and dumped it on the muck heap we had an opportunity to feed the goats. Some were more patient than others...!

Surrey Docks Farm is a working community farm in Rotherhithe, SE16 that aims to educate local people about where their food comes from and promotes getting active outdoors. From Old Spike Roastery it's quite a long run so we don't get to go too often which Saturday the perfect time!

'You've goat to be kidding!'

Could be heard when a goat chomped Lucy's feedbag in half right out of her hand. We also coo-ed over the gorgeous Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, the sheep and Hermione the donkey.

Time to stop mucking about, we needed a goat-o-shoot

Finished up with feeding, we went back into the enclosure for a team photo. The highlight of this being the moment that Emily leant down to stroke a curious goat and it began to wee - very narrowly missing her!

And now, a song:

Right on the Thames was a lonely goatherd

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo

'Help with this task!' could her loud cry be heard

Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Folks from GoodGym came to help the goatheard

Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo

Scrapin' and sweepin' all that lovely goat turd

Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo

Southwark News

• I still have some community places (£10 bargain!) for the Big Half. Send me an email to get the discount code lucyj@goodgym.org

• This weekend is Super Saturday! Come join us at Southwark parkrun for a 9am start and then come to a starter session to Surrey Docks Farm, leaving from Southwark park cafe at 10.20am. Not only all of this but we'll be celebrating Southwark's third birthday!

• Victoria turned 50 at the beginning of January and is now on 52 good deeds. That's a lot of good! Give her a cheer.

• Next week we're filling a skip at Southwark Tigers. It's a 6km run overall.

That's enough of the business

Last night 19 runners ran 5.5km overall to visit our friends at Crisis charity shop on Denmark Hill. We arrived at half seven on the dot. Anca was amazed at how many of us there were (great job!) and set up to work.

A big hello and welcome to Sharon, Frances, Aurelia and Sharon who joined us for the first time last night!

We split into two main groups:

• Visual merchandising - colour coding the display wall, arranging the jewellry displays, dressing a manequin

• Sorting donations - over the festive period Crisis were inundated with an amazing amount of donations. We sorted sellable form non-sellable and set out for recycling any toys or electrical items. There was also a team pricing books.

So many tasks to get done!

Team Donations sorted 64.4 lbs of non-sellable items for recycling. Solid work!

We got to work, finding all kinds of great items as we went, including a 'Wodent Wheel' which Dom commented

"Looks wheely valuable"

There was no way we'd get through all the fresh donations but we made a serious dent, Helena and Matt dressed a manequin as... of course... a runner! Great to have a GoodGym representative at the shop long-term!

Last but not least - places for Brighton Half and London Landmarks Half with the amazing Terence Higgins Trust at a special rate for GoodGymers

Terrence Higgins Trust is the leading and largest HIV and sexual health charity in the UK. We offer a range of services, from testing to counselling, fund life-changing research, and campaign for a world where people with HIV live healthy lives free from prejudice and discrimination, and good sexual health is a right and reality for all.

• Brighton Half: Sunday 24th February - Discount reg fee £10 (from £25) - Minimum sponsorship £200 • London Landmarks Half: Sunday 24th March - Discount reg fee £10 (from £30) - Minimum sponsorship £350

We'll be there to support you every step of the way! Here's what to expect: a welcome pack, THT t-shirt, a personalised THT running vest, regular email updates with training and fundraising tips, on the day support to cheer you to the finish line, and an invite to our “#TeamTHT Thank You Party" later in the year.

If this is the perfect challenge for you, get in touch with Laura laura.stock@tht.org.uk

Great work team, see you next week!