Southwark News

• This Saturday! Come and help Friends of Nunhead Cemetery set up for their open day from 8.30am - 11.00am. Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week we're cleaning the toddler toys at the Salvation Army in Camberwell. I'm not here so the brilliant Lambeth trainer Mark will be coming with you. It's a 6km run overall. Find out more and sign up here.

• Saturday 1st June we're doing a parkrun takeover at Dulwich parkrun. We need to fill the volunteer roster! We need 2 x timekeepers, 2 x finish token, 2 x funnel managers, 1 x barcode scanners, 1 x number writes for people who's barcodes won't scan and 1 x run report writer. Sign up to the event and choose your volunteer position on the spreadsheet.

• A huge big woop for Christina Lazarz coach runner extraordinaire who just did her 50th good deed! A fabulous achievement!

Uh Oh we're in trouble, GoodGym's come along and painted some bubbles

Last night 13 runners ran 4km to finish off painting the playground at Goodrich Community Primary School.

A beautiful evening perfect for painting! We set off after a quick warm up for the (mostly uphill!) 2km to Goodrich. We visited the school last week to start painting the lower walls around the playground white. Rebecca said the kids were thrilled and the parents loved it too. Schools have really struggled lately with all the cuts and they just don't have the capacity to do these kinds of tasks that can make such a huge difference.

An enormous hello and hooray to Sarah, Jodie, Lucy and Kate who all joined us for the first time last night. Excellent work!

With three extra runners we covered almost twice as much wall as we did last time. Blimey! Whilst the second section of wall was painted - including a rather technical part behind a planter and netting - team bubble set about decorating around the water feature. The large structure, when turned on, emits bubbles. The children love it! We painted some gorgeous bubbles on the wall above the water feature.

Having finished up we put away our implements, said thank you to Rebecca and got going downhill back home. 150 odd metres from Old Spike, Daniel set off as the hare and everyone had to chase him down.

Back at Old Spike and it's the third Wednesday of the month so you know what that means - social! We headed next door to Batch for some food and drink and some interesting conversations about sauna meetings (key to resolving Brexit we think).

Great work team! See you next week.

Lucy J