Last night we celebrated nine glorious years of GoodGym Wandsworth – and we did it in classic GG style: with a run, a task at our own GG garden, a lot of laughs and even more potatoes.

We kicked things off with a warm-up and a guess at just how many good deeds have we racked up over the years. The answer? A huge 10,772. That’s a phenomenal amount of digging, weeding, painting, planting and moments of kindness.

We set off to the Omnibus Theatre, where we’ve been cultivating a garden space over the past year. This isn’t just any community garden — it’s one where the produce goes straight to charities supporting families facing food insecurity. With summer in full swing, everything had sprung up— and that includes the weeds! We rolled up our sleeves for a big clear-out. But amidst the weeds were some real treasures. The black gooseberries, figs, beans and chard were all looking lush and leafy, but the highlight was a huge haul of homegrown potatoes – check out the photos to see just what we have produced.

We then dashed over to the road for our traditional birthday fitness session, where last night everything was decided by the roll of a dice. There were squats, sprints and side planks as we battled it out. Even after nine years, the GG Wandsworth competitive spirit is strong– and we never miss a chance to make burpees "fun".

Celebrating what we’ve achieved together in nine years was pretty special. From community clean-ups to massive missions, planting gardens to growing friendships – it’s been a super fun ride powered by the energy and generosity every GoodGymer who’s ever pulled on that red tshirt.

To round off the evening, we returned to the theatre for our party which included double amazing cake courtesy of the legendary Jordan and Catherine, an amazing quiz crafted by ace Quizmaster Paul and of course a toast to the next nine years of doing good and getting fit together. Thanks to everyone who came, ran, weeded, rolled, quizzed, caked and celebrated. Here's to many more miles...

Happy Birthday, GoodGym Wandsworth! ❤️🥔

A huge welcome to Kamil, who came for his very first GoodGym session yesterday - and extra points for making it out on a drizzly Sunday morning!

GoodGym have been helping transform a community centre foyer with a brand new lick of paint, and yesterday's task was our second session at Lillington Gardens. So after a quick warm up in Hyde Park, we set off past Buckingham Palace, dodged the tourists at Victoria, and arrived just in time for Darlene to let us in.

We wasted no time getting stuck in to the painting. The time flew by as we discussed parkruns, our fave music and how on Saturday I had managed to spill a can of paint - so I was being extra careful!

In the time I did one small section of wall, Kamil had managed to cover about three times as much, nice job! We washed our brushes and ourselves up, closed up the centre and headed off to enjoy the rest of our Sundays. A good morning's work making a community centre that much more welcoming for local people.