Southwark News

• Saturday 20th July there's a community mission happening to mulch and water some saplings in Hilly Fields park. It's at 11am so perfect for post-parkrun fun! Find out more and sign up here.

• Sunday 21st July is the London 10k and GoodGym is manning an aid station. Come along to earn yourself some stash and a free place at either Hackney Half, Oxford Half or London 10k next year. Plus it's really fun! Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week we're going to Rye Oak primary school to spruce up the playground. It's a shorter run. Find out more and sign up here. Next week is also the social so stick around after for a picnic!

• My last GoodGym run will be 14th August. I hope to see you there!

That's enough of the business

Last night we ran 5km to Southwark Tigers in Burgess Park to repaint their benches. The benches are really important as Vernon's found it's the best way to encourage parents to hang around when they drop their children at the club and a real community has started to build because of them. We love this task and do it once a year. Last year was in the winter so the paint ran a little bit. This time weather conditions were perfect!

Shout out to Billy who came on his first GoodGym run last night!

We arrived at the pitches and one group went to collect more benches from the clubhouse across the park, whilst the other group got straight to work.

Huge apology and an ENORMOUS cheer for Ian from Croydon who did his 50th good deed with us last night! You're amazing!

Creativity was at an all time high last night. Billy went for a Jackson Pollock approach with an arty splattering and multi-tonal tiger stripes were very in vogue. Vernon was delighted with our work and Dom may be organising a community mission to finish some of the benches we couldn't get to. Watch this space!

Great work team, see you next week!

Lucy J