6 GoodGymers have supported FoodCycle Broxtowe with 4 tasks.
Wednesday 28th May
Written by Rachel Levick
It was a leaflet-delivering task with a bit of a twist yesterday as Leah, Peter and Rachel headed to the Broxtowe area of Nottingham. Our task was to deliver leaflets for the FoodCycle Broxtowe-Aspley’s community meal, which provides free dinner to local residents every Tuesday evening. It is an amazing community initiative and they are looking for more guests to attend and benefit from it.
However, before we got to work, we had another important job to do first – meet Mark from ITV who wanted to film us in action! They were planning to do a piece about The Big Green Week which is taking place from 7th to 15th June and wanted to film us doing a task and ask a few questions.
Mark started filming us delivering leaflets as we tried to look energised and cheery as we trotted up and down people’s driveways (no acting skills needed of course, we always have fun on GoodGym tasks!). After Mark had all the action shots he needed, he set up to do a short interview with Leah who had stepped up to be the spokesperson (again!).
Peter and Rachel continued with the leafletting and Leah joined back in once she was done with coming up with answers to questions about the Big Green Week. After 50-minutes and 2km covered, all the leaflets were safely in letter boxes and we jogged back to the meeting place.
We don’t know if/when the footage will be on ITV but we will share it if we spot it. Perhaps even more exciting was the pretty route map we created on this task (see photos)!!
Wednesday 16th August 2023
Written by Becky
500 leaflets. Was that a lot? We weren't really sure. Turns out, when every house is set back off the road and behind latched gates- it is a lot! None the less, we did as much as we could within the hour, exploring cul-de-sacs and counting cats. Hopefully a few more people in the area are aware of FoodCycle now, and we'll go back to dish out the rest of the leaflets another day.