This weekend the Community Healing Garden in Vauxhall held a big free summer party for local residents to enjoy the garden. We’ve been holding monthly community mission sessions in the garden and it’s been so lovely to see how much progress the volunteer team have made to this beautiful green space.

The party was a great success, with loads of homemade food, craft activities, a bug hunt, face painting, and live music performances on the main stage (we couldn’t choose between ‘V-Fest’, ‘Vaux-Stock’ or ‘Gardenbury’!)

But we weren’t just there to enjoy the cakes! We helped out by setting up the chairs, table and stage, putting signs up, and running the badge-making stand. After a few false starts we became expert badge makers and took a few home ourselves!

Big shovel energy tonight at Holy Trinity, team! 💪🏼 One of our fave return fixtures — barrows loaded, wood mulch flying, and the orchard garden finally got the thirsty tree bases and borders the mulch they’d been begging for. Parched no more! 🌳💦

Squad on task: Adam, Ben, Fi, Katie, Michael, Rich and yours truly, Yianny. Absolute mulch-ines, the lot of them. 🍾

And because it was the end of the month, social snuck back into its rightful evening slot — chef’s kiss timing. 😊 Ben went full Bake Off with homemade feta parcels and veggie sausage rolls (someone give this man a task-and-tasting badge 🧰❤️), everyone else brought food and drink to match, and our host with the most, Tilly, ran a properly spirited round of Linkee that had brains and bellies both working overtime. 🤩

Thanks to Nicole and Adam for hosting us!

Mulch spread, minds boggled, tummies full — you really can’t beat a GoodGym Tuesday.

We had big plans for a summer picnic today — blankets, snacks, sunshine, the works. But with so much of our core crew off gallivanting elsewhere, we did what GoodGym Lambeth does best: pivoted straight into pure garden graft! 💪🏼

This week we headed to Papa’s Park to lend Valcie a hand, and the squad rolled up their sleeves for a proper tidy-up:

• 💧 Watering — yes, watering counts as a task (it’s for food production, we checked!)
• 🧹 Sweeping — no leaf left behind
• 🌿 Weeding — one small tug for a volunteer, one giant leap for the flowerbeds
• 🛍️ Bagging it all up — turning garden chaos into tidy little parcels of achievement

A stellar turnout from, Ben , Michael , Katie and Jo kept the energy high and the park looking sharper than ever.

Since this was meant to be a social at heart, the team wasn’t going to let a change of plans stop the vibes — an impromptu drink afterwards sealed the deal. 🍾 Proof that even when the picnic blanket stays folded, GoodGym Lambeth always finds a way to raise a glass to a job well done. 🧰❤️

Here’s to unexpected plot twists, park glow-ups, and the crew that shows up rain, shine, or picnic-cancellation! See you at the next one (which really will be a social!) 🏃🏽‍♀️🌱

Papa’s was the meeting point once again, and this evening’s crew assembled ready to put their best foot (and leaflet) forward: Ben , Fi, Libby , and yours truly, Yianny 💪🏼

Tonight’s mission? Pure, vital, community-shaking work: spreading the good word about GoodGym itself! 📣 Because if you’re going to run around doing good deeds, you might as well recruit a few more people to join in the chaos. Leaflets in hand, we canvassed the local area with the focus of a squad who takes “door to door” very literally — and we didn’t stop until every last flyer had found a new home. Mission: accomplished. Letterboxes: thoroughly GoodGym’d. 📬

Being a nice quick task, we even had time left over for the true reward of volunteering: an impromptu post-task tipple 🥂 Nothing says “we just promoted community fitness” quite like immediately sitting down for a well-earned drink. Balance, people. It’s all about balance.

Great work team — here’s to more leaflets, more laps, and more lovely little detours to the pub along the way 🍻❤️