Toiling with Soil

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Nottingham
Tom Oliver
Rachel Levick
1 / 5
Nottingham

Wednesday 11th September

Credits
Rachel Levick
Rachel Levick

PHOTOGRAPHER

Nottingham runner

SESSION ORGANISER

REPORT WRITER

PHOTOGRAPHER

Find out about GoodGym TaskForce

Report written by Nottingham runner

Share the love

A small but hardy crew of GoodGymers headed over to meet Adele up at Walter Halls School, a place we previously went to back in May to dig a big hole and roll giant cable reels down a hill (yes, really.

This time, Adele had ordered in some giant sacks of compost for the school allotment area, but the company refused to deliver them any closer to where they needed to be because of the poor weather.

So Rachel, Tom and Leah rolled up their sleeves, grabbed some spades and wheelbarrows and set about carting as much as we could across the school's expansive field and down into the allotment.

We quickly managed to fill a flowerbed and a half that Adele and her younger daughter had cleared of weeds, then started on making a big pile for the kids to get stuck into distributing around the garden.

Adele's older daughter became an honorary GoodGym member, helping us with the soil while keeping us hugely entertained with a wealth of riddles and insightful questions, and getting us our cardio in by turning each round into a literal wheelbarrow race.

We'll try to organise another task here soon, there's always plenty to do!


This task supported

Walter Halls is a primary school that serves St Anns and Mapperly children.

See more

Discuss this report
Join us on our next session

Nottingham

Helping out at The Meadows Foodbank
🗓Wednesday 8th January 2025 6:30pm

Help the foodbank and its staff continue to provide a service to those in need

+5
Matthew SimmsBozena KendalHannah ReddinLindseyMaisie O'Brien-Butcher
10 GoodGymers are going