GoodGym Nottingham

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AJ
Matt Simms
Hannah Reddin
Bozena Kendal
Tom Oliver
Peter Edwards

Help the Food Bank? Yes, we can!

Wednesday 22nd October

Written by Peter Edwards

It was back to the food bank in The Meadows for eight Goodgymers last night. Mark from the food bank soon had us organised and so we set to work. Hannah, Bozena and Aj set to organising stock. Meanwhile some generous donations meant a number of pallets where stacked higher than Peter so Matt (six at a time!), Scott, Tom and Kevin got stuck in to moving tuna, mandarin segments and rice puddings by the dozen upstairs. Some would say this was good Hyrox training if anyone had somehow got themselves roped in to one (not looking at Tom in particular!) but was definitely a good workout for everyone there!

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Kevin Merry
Rachel Levick

Don't break that gate!

Wednesday 15th October

Written by Rachel Levick

Three GoodGymers headed to the Bobbers Mill area of Nottingham to deliver leaflets for the Windmill Community Gardens annual Pumpkin Party.

Leah, Rachel and new member, Kevin, met at 6.30pm and spent an hour dropping leaflets through doors in the local area. Thankfully we were presented with mostly short driveways, no hills and not too many gates, which meant that we could smash through quite a number of letter boxes in the hour - not literally, we can confirm that no gates or letter boxes were harmed during this task, despite Leah's past history with challenging gates!

The Pumpkin Party will take place on Sunday 26th October and promises to be a fun afternoon for all the family. If anyone fancies going along to help out, particularly with clearing up at the end of the event, see this task page.

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Elspeth S
Scott Greenlees
Tom Oliver
Peter Edwards
Rachel Levick

Cranky? Us?

Wednesday 8th October

Written by Nottingham runner

Sadly our post-Goose Fair litterpick at Forest Rec didn't live up to the excellent rubbish standards of last time we cleared up after a major event thereNigel's inflatable alien really will take some beating, it seems!

That's not to say we got a bad haul though! Despite someone (the council maybe?) managing to give the place a good cleaning between Rachel and Peter's pre-task reccies and our arrival, we still managed to fill a good few bags of rubbish.

Hannah's crank took the prize for most unusual bit of litter, while Elspeth and Leah managed to find half a loaf of very stale, very mouldy bread, followed by its bag a few metres further down the fence.

Shoutout to Scott for coming to his very first task with us – hope to see you again soon!

Someone please remind me to charge the headtorches, looks like we'll be needing them for outdoor stuff from now on!

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Bozena Kendal
Nigel Rowden
Elspeth S
Tom Oliver
Peter Edwards
Rachel Levick

Meadows Foodbank

Wednesday 1st October

Written by Rachel Levick

It was a bumper turn out at this week’s task as 11 Nottingham GoodGymers headed to the Meadows Foodbank and Pantry. Mark greeted us on arrival and, once he found his to-do list, he set us to work on a variety of tasks.

Dayna and Elspeth took on the task of sorting and tidying the clothes in the foodbank. Matt, Bozena, Rafe, Nigel, Rosemarie and Vytautas did a huge clean of the floors, shelves and fridges. Meanwhile Peter, Tom and Rachel headed upstairs to tackle a flat pack Ikea table and a clothes rail.

As some of these jobs proved quicker than others, a few of the group then turned their hand to dating some of the food, and photographing and cataloging some toys and baby items which are going to form part of the foodbank’s Christmas campaign (see information poster in photos). Finally, as if we hadn’t ticked off enough different activities this evening, Nigel took on the important job of folding bits of paper for the foodbank’s raffle which was due to be drawn in the coming days.

We welcomed Rafe to his first GoodGym session, and also Elspeth who has recently moved to Nottingham from Leeds where she used to do GoodGym.

Also congrats to Dayna who has now done 10 tasks, and a big well done to Bozena who did the Robin Hood Half Marathon at the weekend!

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Matt Simms
Nigel Rowden
Peter Edwards
Rachel Levick

One man went to mow (and some others went too)

Wednesday 24th September

Written by Rachel Levick

Five GoodGymers headed to the Edwards Lane Community Centre in Sherwood recently to help out with tidying their garden and grounds. This was our first visit to the centre, which is home to the Chayah Development Project, and we were warmly greeted on arrival by Hya, Chayah’s Founder and CEO.

Our main task was to mow the lawn at the front of the building, a job which had Matt’s name written all over it. We all held our breath while Matt and Hya’s husband attempted to get the mower started, but once it was up and running it was full steam ahead as Matt attempted to mow the lawn before the light faded.

Meanwhile, Leah, Peter, Nigel and Rachel did some general pruning, weeding and tidying of the area around the carpark and driveway (Nigel is missing from our group photo as he needed to make a dash to the airport for a pick-up).

We very nearly completed this task in the daylight, but as the sun started to go down just before 7.30 the mower also ran out of petrol. There wasn’t time to refuel and so a small patch of grass remained un-mowed for the time being. However, this was still a job well done and we hope to return to the community centre for some indoor tasks over the darker weeks.

A big thank you to Hya, her husband, and to Councillor Nayab Patel who also came out to support us.

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Natalie Cooper
Dayna Bethell
Matt Simms
Nigel Rowden
Tom Oliver
Rachel Levick

A little warm up for the pub quiz

Tuesday 16th September

Written by Rachel Levick

GoodGym Nottingham recently decided to mark various milestones within the team with a task and pub quiz combo.

The group congregated at the Carlton Hill Sensory Garden (Garden for the Blind) to do a spot of tidying and litter picking. We had expected to pick up where we left off last time and get stuck into more of the overgrown bushes, however someone had beaten us to it and the garden was actually looking very clear and tidy. Leah managed to find one patch which still needed a bit of a prune, whilst the rest of the group split up and looked for litter and anything else that needed a little chop.

The group did still manage to fill a bag of cuttings and get quite a bit of rubbish from the surrounding streets, so it was still time well spent.

After the task, we headed to the nearby Brickyard Pub to eat pizza and do the pub quiz where we placed fourth. Not too shabby, although we have realised that our knowledge of James Bond themes and Thomas the Tank Engine needs work.

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