14 runners ran 4km to help move flood-damaged flooring at Cossall Estate

Southwark News

• On Wednesday morning GoodGym celebrated reaching its 100,000th deed. That's an absolutely incredible amount of good done all across the country. Wow. Congratulations to everyone who's been a part of this amazing feat. Davina McCall made us a wonderful little vid saying well done - watch it here. We are SO VERY PROUD that the top GoodGym runners that helped achieved this include our very own Beth Hoskins who has racked up 617 good deeds. Give Beth some love by clicking 'cheer' and then cheer everyone else because you've all been part of something awesome that has benefited (and continues to benefit) so many people around the country.

• I'm planning a parkrun takeover! Fill out this form to tell me what parkrun you want and when! At the moment we're looking at the start of September. At a takeover you can choose to pace - we try to provide pacers every minute from 20 up to 30 OR you can just turn up in your GG tshirt and be a lovely smiley face. We had a massive reaction from Burgess Parkrun last time and it was a huge amount of fun.

• Task drive! I'm on a task drive! Are there any tasks you remember doing once that were really cool but you don't remember going back? Have you seen a local group and thought "hmmm I bet GoodGym can help"? If so I want to know about it! It must be a not for profit, charity or community group. Send me an email with task location, details of the task owner and contact details lucyj@goodgym.org

• As requested: details of the York Marathon and 10 Mile race - there's a big London contingent and it's officially hosted by the amazing GoodGym Yorkies. It will be super duper fun, you'll meet GoodGymers from all over the country and get to run a really lovely race. To find out more - check the sign up page (and sign up!) and email Egg the York trainer egg@goodgym.org

• I'M NOT FINISHED YET! Phewf a lot of news this week... Last night we welcomed three runners brand new to GoodGym - go on a click 'cheer' for Harry, Chris and Georgia. Great to meet you and hope to see you doing some more good with us soon!

That's enough of the business

Last night we visited our old friends at Cossall Estate to finish a job we started a few weeks ago. A radiator burst in the hall a month or so ago leading to the flooring getting ruined! Luckily the council have agreed to refurb but in the meantime a lot of damaged wood and all the carpet needed pulling up. Nine people got to work on this whilst four set about watering and weeding on the raised planters outside.

We did an absolutely smashing job in the Tenants Association Hall, getting every last bit of carpet pulled up and Jaki was thrilled with how gorgeous the planters looked after our gardeners had a go at them.

A great job well done. Jaki and Alan were thrilled and can't wait to have us back again!

Next week it's a longer run - 8km total - to go and see Barnaby at Camberwell Subterannea. It's been a while so it'll be lovely to go back! Sign up here.

Great work team, see you again next week!

Keep running happy, Lucy