Southwark News

• This Saturday at 13.30 we need help! Rainbow Trust Children's Charity are raising funds and awareness at Crystal Palace Sainsburys, and we need you - sign up here.

• Saturday 9th Feb is the last cross country fixture of the year. If you're part of the race team, come run in the mud and drink with us! Sign up here.

• Next week Grove Park needs us to help them cut back trees. It's outdoors so if you have a headtorch bring it, and wrap up warm! Sign up here.

• Thursday February 28th is a date for your diary! Southwark's own Matt Guy is hosting a fundraising evening with our friends at Batch bar for Westminster House, a youth charity in Nunhead. It'll be an evening of running short films, tickets are £9 and include a running-themed drink. Support Matt, Westminster House and Batch all in one go - get your tickets here!

• We only went a bloody did it! 6000 good deeds absolutely smashed by GoodGym across the country in January.

That's enough of the business

Last night 17 runners ran 6km to clean the toddler toys at the Salvation Army in Camberwell. It was lovely to see Janet, the task owner again, who we last visited to help put together food parcels for Christmas.

'New Year same old toddler toys' - Janet

We've done this task several times before - we efficiently split up to take the toys out of the cupboard, line them up for cleaning and get to work. The clean toys were then reorganised as they went back into the cupboard and tables were put down and away. In 30 minutes we had cleaned every single item in the cupboard and put it back. Janet was thrilled!

Havin' a duck-duck-goos-in good time

Before leaving, we played a round of duck duck goose. We started off doing this from sitting down and then realised that we're not quite as springy as we once were and instead we held a squat in a circle whilst 'It' went around. It turns out duck duck goose is quite a tense game! The game was won to much cheering and applause, and we went to get water and biscuits from Janet (well earned).

Hello and welcome to Sasha and Amy who joined us for the first time last night!

Off we went back to Old Spike looking out for ice on our way - if you're out cycling today, be careful!

Great work team, see you next week.

Lucy J