Southwark News

• Tonight tonight! Come to Batch Bar, just next door to Old Spike Roastery to meet GoodGymers from all over London and enjoy some of Phil's signatures cocktails. There will be International Pun of the Month, Heroes and much more. Find out more and sign up here.

• Next week we're doing some more painting! Don't wear brand new kit in case it gets painty! Lucy can testify to that one... FInd out more and sign up here.

• Saturday 18th May is Community Mission to help Friends of Nunhead Cemetery put up gazebos for their Open Day. Find out more and sign up here.

• Last but not least we're taking over Dulwich parkrun on 1st June! That means filling the volunteer roster. Gilian who will be run director on the day came to talk to us this week about it. We need 2 x timekeepers, 2 x finish token, 2 x funnel managers, 1 x barcode scanners, 1 x number writes for people who's barcodes won't scan and 1 x run report writer. Sign up to the event and choose your volunteer position on the spreadsheet.

That's enough of the business

Last night 10 runners ran 4km to paint the playground at Goodrich Community Primary School. After a briefing and a chat with Gilian about parkrun on 1st June, we headed off.

Due to the rain it was uncertain we'd actually be able to paint outside but alas we were in luck, we arrived at the school and Rebecca led us to the start of the wall outside her reception classroom. Steve, the premises manager helped us set everything up.

Hello and welcome to Hannah who joined us for the first time last night!

First things first moving everything near the wall away from it so we had plenty of space - this included some very heavy compost bags. Putting the 'gym' in the 'good'! With everything safely away from the wall and paint rollers set out we spread along the wall to get painting!

This simple white paint will give the playground such a lift, the kind of thing that recent cuts mean schools just don't have the time or capacity for anymore. The wall looked fabulous by the time we finished.

Before we left we said a big thank you to Rebecca and Steve for staying behind to let us help. Then we ran back home - downhill this time hooray! We got back to the Rye a little early so stopped for some shuttle runs and exercises including press-ups, burpees and star jumps.

Great work team!

See you next week for more of the same.

Lucy J