A wonderful morning walk learning about indigenous and non trees in the local area alongside a litter pick.

Fun times with fun folks :O)

The days are getting longer and the Lambeth team were down at Papa's enjoying the last rays of the sun as it dipped below the houses on Pulross Rd because it was Tuesday and that can only mean one thing - Group Run time.

This evening was a classic help out our friends session so we were heading out to post flyers for our friends at Get Rid of and Donate as well as some GoodGym ones to raise awareness of two awesome organisations (if we do say so ourselves).

Four members so Manos, Tilly, Katie and AA Yianny set off on a lovely loop through Brixton and down to Brockwell Park before heading back and starting the leafletting around the Rattray and Mayall Road block.

We had a decent chunk of flyers so divided them up but by 5 to 8 we were standing triumphantly by the side of St Matthew's Church with empty hands and a feeling of achievement!

So that's it, another great task and another fun evening. Big congratulations to Tilly for setting a new PB on her half marathon the weekend past, to Katie for hitting a double session trail run + GG group run and Manos who was back for his second ever session (one of the family now!)

Another chilly evening down in Brixton but that wouldn't keep our intrepid GGers away from their group session!

Dan showed his commitment and shook off his back injury to come down and was joined by Katie and Tilly for our regular recycling collection session supporting Greenpeace's Everyday Plastic initiative.

Once the group had finished a detailed discussion of age related back ailments and stretches we set off on a pleasant 3km loop to get warmed up and then as we arrived back dived straight into our task.

This session is a simple one - grab as much recyclable material as we can find littering the streets of Lambeth and get it into recycling bins - this then avoids it being swept into rubbish collection and going to landfill!

By the end of the session we had stuffed two black bags with recyclable material and put them into recycling bins - a job well done. Big thanks to all and Dan I owe you a pack of sweet treats!!

And so GG Lambeth rounded out the 2024 Group Runs with a session to help out our favourite organisation.

Let's start at the beginning, we were delighted to have Dan join us for his first session, welcome Dan great to have you with us!

With a few of the group not being able to make it that left Katie and Yianny to round out the numbers and the weather decided to be less dry and more wet than previously expected. As a result AA changed the task on the fly from the planned litter pick bingo to leafletting for GoodGym :0)

A big thank you to Katie for bringing her reverse Advent Calendar donations which will be given to Lambeth foodbanks.

We set off on our 4km loop via Clapham North with time to regale Dan with GG stories and how things work (also where the best bars are on Landor Road!) Once we were back at base we grabbed handfuls if GG flyers and headed to a new block of streets and houses to drum up support for volunteers in 2025.

And so that was that, last session done, only slightly soggy and a nice session to boot.

Just time for me to say a last big thank you to all the GGers who have done so much good work this year, it has been an absolute pleasure to spend time with you! 2024 - out.

As expected a beautiful summer's evening last night for a bit of GoodGyming.

Another week and another new GGer joined us - Ethaan it was lovely to have you with us and we hope to see you fir more sessions over the summer!

We had a last minute task cancellation so instead we were off to do some flyering of the local area for GoodGym (our fave cause!) with the three flyer-teers including Tilly and AA Yianny.

After a 2.3km run in just over 12 mins we grabbed the leaflets and started out zigzagging the roads closest to Papa's to see if that would generate interest from folks based close to our base. Tilly also managed to drop off some at the local student accommodation on her way home which was great.

In no time we had covered two large blocks and the end of Pulross Road and it was time to head home.

Big thanks to all and see you next time!

Last night we had a special task - raising awareness of our very own GoodGym around the Brixton and Clapham area to drum up lots of new interest.

With 9 people signed up things were looking ominous at 6:45pm when no one had yet turned up to meet AA at Papa's but then Super Sam was first in and slowly others started to join us.

We had a few new faces to welcome which is always lovely, once Jacob and Rose managed to find us stashed away in Papa's community hall we were delighted to welcome them along, great to have you with us both!

We kicked off with our introductions and a question from Yianny - If there was a zombie apocalypse what unique skill would you bring to the group to help us survive? Some great answers and skills were on show but Tilly's abilities to make clothing from organic materials and Fi's hide and seek skills were the winners in my book!

Louise we are still waiting for your answer - feel free to drop it in the comments below!!

We then set off to distribute as many flyers as we could by 8pm and we had the nice surprise of Jo managing to get to us after work and join just as we headed out so added another member to our group - fantastic.

The next 40 minutes passed by in a hurry despite the blustery and slightly soggy conditions as the group covered the residential roads from Clapham North back down towards our base.

With that all said and done we met back at Papa's for our group photo and a look ahead to what is coming up in Lambeth and Southwark as we head into the final week of the January Challenge next week.

Thanks everyone and see you next time :0)