GoodGym Lambeth Run Report: Chip Happens! 🏃‍♀️🌳 What a woody wonderful evening at Agnes Riley Gardens! Our magnificent crew showed up ready to get down and dirty (literally) with the Friends of the Park, and boy did we mulch things happen! 💪🏼

The Dream Team Our usual legends Jo, Fi, Tilly, and Ben were firing on all cylinders, and we were absolutely thrilled to welcome back the long-lost Marie-Noelle! We’d really pined for her return! 🌲

The Mission Armed with shovels, wheelbarrows, and questionable dance moves, we tackled two timber-rific tasks: ∙ Shifting mountains of wood chip onto the mud kitchen (because every tiny chef deserves a splinter-free workspace 👨‍🍳) ∙ Levelling ground for a new bench (future bottoms will thank us!) The Work There was shovelling. There was barrowing. There was laying. There was soil-turning. Basically, we were one wheelbarrow away from starting our own landscaping empire. You could say we really barked up the right tree with this one! 🎯

The Grand Finale What’s a GoodGym session without totally embarrassing ourselves? We wrapped up with a spontaneous Cha Cha Slide on our freshly laid wood chip dance floor. Slide to the left? ✅ Criss cross? ✅ Charlie Brown? Absolutely! 💃🕺

Same time next week, legends? 🍾✨​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Today Goodgymer Brenda, assisted Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre foodbank serving appreciative individuals food aid.

Another great session at Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre, unloading, sorting and packing food donations in preparation for Friday foodbank service.

**GoodGym Lambeth Run Report 🏃‍♀️

**When Life Gives You Manure, Make… Well, Compost! 💩➡️🌱

What a night at Brixton Waterworks allotments! We had a plot twist (see what we did there? 🌿) with a late session change, but that just meant we got to meet the absolute legend that is Jane - who at just shy of 90 is still out there gardening when the sun goes down. Talk about growing old gracefully! 🌙👵💪

**The Leadership Shovelshuffle

With AA Yianny stuck crawling down the motorway (probably behind someone doing 20mph in a Fiat Panda), our superhero Fi stepped up to lead the troops. She really rose to the occasion - unlike Yianny’s speedometer! 🦸‍♀️🚗💨

**Getting Down and Dirty

The crew got stuck in with: ∙ 💪 Shovelling manure (proof that we’re not afraid of a crappy situation!) ∙ 🚜 Barrowing it about (wheely hard work!) ∙ 🍎 Apple picking for those nursing dodgy backs (the core of our operation) ∙ 🪓 Clearing Jane’s plot of chopped trees (we really branched out!)

**The Results

By the end, we’d shifted an enormous amount of green waste 🌲🌲🌲 - enough to make even the compost heap jealous!

Big thanks to Annick and Jane for having us. We had a growing good time! 🌱😄

Remember: We came, we sawed, we mulched! 🎉​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Today, most of the food was distributed, although we had less than usual.

Today two Goodgymers assisted Vauxhall Gardens community centre team prepare for their Friday foodbank session. Another rewarding session.