💪🌱 Girl power at Surrey Docks Farm today! An all-women crew got stuck into making compost by sieving rotted woodchip and layering it with coffee grounds from the farm café. With Kate's guidance, we built one full bag—around 1 tonne of compost that will decompose over the next few months. It was also great to welcome three new GoodGymers to the task. A muddy, productive morning with brilliant teamwork! ♻️

Today, after the England game, we went to Nunhead Cemetery to help salvage some bricks. We moved the bricks from an area that will soon be cleared, into another part of the cemetery so that they can be used in the future for building paths.

This run was a special collaboration with the South London based run club, Hills Pay The Bills. Since Melbourne Grove is part of there infamous 7 Hills route, it only made sense for us to collaborate with them once I got the news that someone needed help with 6 public planters in the same area.

We met at Denmark Hill Station then run 1.2km (no hills this time) to Melbourne Grove to meet with Pip, the lovely women who took it upon herself to maintain the public planters. She provided us with equipment, then from there we got involved with some litter picking and weeding. Unknown to me, the majority of the group had experience with gardening, one member even has her own garden. Amazing work form Katheryne, Rene, Reon and Faime.

Once the job was done, we were offered some baked goods that Pip baked herself (they were amazing), then we ran back to Denmark Hill. Since the group is called Hills Pay The Bills, it's only right that we went up at least one hill so we ran up the final hill on the 7 Hills course to get to Denmark Hill, then we parted ways.

On Sunday 28th June, five enthusiastic GoodGym volunteers helped Peckham Rye Junior parkrun run smoothly as tailwalkers, marshals, and finish line s/heroes. Another run-derful morning of community spirit. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Volunteering at Borough Food Cooperative alongside the core team, we were on a roll, Brew-tally bagging 1,110 teabags. A real souper team effort , everyone pulling their weight to keep shelves stacked and crates looking egg-stra fresh. We carrott on sorting and stocked up the goodies with zero crumbs left. When Felix dropped the goods in the heat, we stayed cool as cucumbers in the basement, just nacho average team serving top-tier snack vibes.

Three Goodgym volunteers hit the ground running at Peckham Rye junior parkrun, one marshalling the course,one handing out finish tokens at pace, and one tailwalking to keep everyone on track. It was a hot start, but the children didn't sweat it, they kept cool, running strong, and racing to the finish line like the pros. Absolutely run-derdul effort all round.