Thankfully it was back to business as normal last night after a scorching week, and the lovely GoodGym crew was raring to do some serious good in the community!

It was great to see some familiar faces back, and also to welcome Joanna to her very first session - good to have you join us!

Our task for the evening was at the beautiful Paradise Cooperative garden - a community space transformed from derelict land into a thriving garden for local people and children. This amazing place hosts outdoor learning workshops, events for the community and opportunities to grow.

We were meant to be getting out our paintbrushes to give the community space a good going over, but unfortunately the equipment wasn't ready. Instead, given the heat wave, the team asked us to give the polytunnels a good water and weed. So, wasting no time after our 2km run up to the site, we grabbed a watering can and hose pipe and got to work!

It was quite a soothing job, and we happily tended to the garden while identifying some amazing crops, including raspberries, yellow gourds, watermelons, sweetcorn and so much more.

Happily drenched - both us and the garden - we set off for nearby Wandsworth common for a quick and intense core workout that focused on our ab and back muscles. Excellent supermanning, gang!

This week we have so many missions happening, including helping set up tables for a community vaccine event on Thursday evening, Friday lunchtime helping at Ace of Clubs centre and a very quick Sunday task helping a charity load a van. Most excitingly, we have a very special session next Monday evening where we will be planting flowers donated by Wimbledon and then celebrating six whole years of GoodGym Wandsworth with a little post task party! Sign up here] (https://www.goodgym.org/happenings/planting-donated-flowers-from-wimbledon) for all the fun!