Hello GoodGymers! 👋 This week we headed to the Brixton Waterworks allotments to help Annick and Jean, and what a grow-ing success it was! 🌱

🧰 The jobs: Half the team went on a mission to move every last manky carpet into the skip. 🪤 Then it was bag after bag of leaves, which we emptied into the skip too. We were skip-ping with joy! 🍂

Over on the other side, Adam and Jo were on manure duty: shovel, move, repeat, repeat, repeat. 💩 Truly the unsung heroes of the day. Some might say they were full of it, but we mean that in the nicest way. 😂

🛞 Sporting history was made: Ben and Rich invented a brand new wheelbarrow-based sport, and Ben is now the official world record holder! 🏆 The Olympic committee has been notified. 😂

🛁 Katie's verdict: "No one fell in the bath, so I'm taking that as a victory." We'll take it too, Katie. Great work, everyone! 🙌

Huge thanks to Ben, Michael, Katie, Jo, Adam and Rich for your hard graft, and to Annick and Jean for having us. The allotments are looking soil good! 🥬❤️

See you at the next one! 💪🏼

Another week, another crew of Lambeth legends lacing up for good! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ We set off from Papa's and ran to Windmill Gardens, where the weeds had clearly been plotting a takeover. 🌿😱

Our heroes Ben, Michael, Jo (who led the session ❤) Dan, Fi, Tilly (who baked!), Rich, RJ and Adam rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in. 💪🏼 There was weeding (we really got to the root of the problem 🪴), manual work (we nailed it 🔨), and general sprucing (we left the place looking trashy in the best possible way 🗑️✨).

Special shoutout to Dan, who dug so deep we think he found Australia. 🦘 Fi and Jo tackled the tasks like they owed them money 💸, and Ben, Michael and Adam had to share a teeny tiny pumpkin which didn't turn into a carriage. 🧰

Hats off to the whole team for being absolutely un-fork-gettable. 🍴🌻 Waterworks allotments is looking thyme-lessly gorgeous, and the community will love it! ❤️

Same time next week? We'll be there, ready to turnip and make a difference! 🥕😉

#GoodGymLambeth #FitnessWithAPurpose 🥰

Good job ✔️ done Helping to pack away gazebos tables etc for all the stall holders, clear up litter to leave the place looking 👌 after a wonderful day.

Helping setting up gazebos & stalls for everyone supporting the community event was lovely. Everyone worked hard together ❤️ to make it a beautiful day for many people 🙏💕😊 There was so much for everyone to enjoy, arts, music, great food, history, great Italian chef feeding the team too! 😀

Tuesday night saw a cracking turnout as the GoodGym Lambeth crew rolled up (quite literally, in the case of several carpets) at Annick’s beloved waterworks allotments for an evening of heavy lifting, heavier furniture-breaking, and general green-fingered good deeds 🌱💪🏼

The task at hand: rug rolling, shelf smashing, and some good old-fashioned digging about — basically an extreme home makeover, allotment edition. Annick’s plot has never looked (or felt) so un-furnished 🛋️➡️🗑️

On the team sheet tonight:

• Ben Margerison — hauling carpets like they owed him money
• Michael Welsh — bringing the muscle and the smiles
• Katie Allan — no stranger to a task, this Lambeth legend just keeps racking them up 🏅
• Tilly Baker Hine — gardening gloves on, ready for anything
• Jo Bowen — allotment royalty for the evening
• Dan — 50 tasks deep and still showing up to demolish some furniture 🔨
• Fi — sleeves rolled up, spirits high
• Rich — new face, instant legend
• Libby Cannon — welcome to the chaos, Libby! 🎉

Between us we shifted more old stuff than a Sunday car boot sale, and left Annick’s allotment looking positively spring-cleaned 🧹✨

And because it was the last Tuesday of the month, work quickly turned to well-earned play — the gang swapped trowels for pints and toasted a job well done at the social afterwards 🍾😊 Nothing quite like bonding over a shared dislike of a particularly stubborn Billy bookcase.

Great work all round, Lambeth — you moved mountains (of carpet) tonight! 🥰

Big squad energy at GoodGym Lambeth this evening 💪🏼 — bumper turnout, loads of new faces, and our regular crew bringing the vibes as always: Katie, Ben, Jo, Marie-Noelle, Dan and AA Yianny holding it down. 🍾

And the warm welcomes don’t stop there! A massive GG hello to newbies Romi, Ark and Zain 🥳 — you survived your first session, you’re basically family now! And a special shoutout to Libby, who came back for another GG fix 😊 — once is a taste, twice is a habit, you’re one of us now!

Tonight’s mission: Windmill Gardens, helping the brilliant Jean and Annick tackle a jungle situation. The plastic fencing was holding back a weed invasion that had basically adopted the new whips as roommates 🏠🌿, so out came the fence, out came the weeds, and back up went the fence — teamwork makes the fence work! 🔧 There was litter picking, Ark got hands-on with watering duty 💦, and a serious amount of compost-worthy greenery got sent off to start its next life. ♻️

Bonus plot twist: Jean let slip there’s a spot of Shakespeare in the park next Friday 🎭 — not an official GG outing, but “to GG or not to GG” might just be the wrong question when there’s culture on offer. 😱🤩

Brilliant effort all round, Windmill Gardens — see you next time! 🏃‍♀️❤️