Well done to Tim and Tom who helped out at this year's Nottingham Green Festival.

The weather turned good after a soggy few days and the festival was a great success!

It was splendid seeing the amount of people who went to it!

Four GoodGymers reconvened at Forest Rec this week to do some more promotion for the Nottingham Green Festival. Our original task for the evening was supposed to be at a school but sadly that had to be cancelled. Luckily, we had enough notice to get hold of more leaflets so that we could finish what we started the previous week (see that report here).

This week it was Leah, Nigel, Tom and Rachel, so we split into pairs and wound our way up the roads in the Forest Fields area. Although we had more leaflets than last time, as we approached Gladstone Street we decided to pop into the Sumac Centre again to attempt to get some more to keep up stocked for the rest of the hour (Nigel and Soliane had also volunteered to drop some into town in the next couple of days so we wanted to grab some for that).

Luck was on our side this week and we found Pat, one of the Green Festival organisers, on site so he furnished us with another pile of flyers. This meant we could continue posting in letterboxes as we headed down another of the long roads back to Forest Rec. Before heading home, Leah dished out some of the This Girl Can merch from the back of her car - there are still some water bottles and tote bags left if anyone wants them. Nigel also managed to drop a few leaflets to the sports centre at the recreation ground.

Now, you may think that the most exciting thing about a leafleting task is the thrill of whether the gate will open, if there will be a dog barking inside or whether the letter box will try to take your fingers with the leaflet?? Well, think again. Tom delivered a leaflet to A SNAKE!! (well, it was a man with a snake poking out of his sleeve, but still a rather unexpected encounter).

A big thankssss to everyone for a sssssuper tasssk!

We have lots of great tasks coming up (hopefully without snakes) - check them out and sign up at https://www.goodgym.org/v3/areas/nottingham/sessions. If you have any questions at all before signing up, feel free to drop the TaskForce and email at goodgymnottingham@gmail.com.

It was a case of blink and you’ll miss us at last night’s task, which ended up being one of our shortest yet (apart from the ones that have been cancelled).

We met at Forest Rec with the plan being to deliver leaflets for the Nottingham Green Festival around houses in the Forest Fields area. We headed off up one of the residential roads - Peter, Nigel and Tom on one side and Rosemarie, Vytautas and Rachel L on the other. However, after about 15-minutes of posting, we all ran out of leaflets!

We had vastly underestimated how many leaflets we would be able to deliver in an hour. This was partly because when collecting the leaflets there weren’t many people signed up to the task, but also because we were obviously just too speedy.

As we were near to the community centre where the leaflets were stored, we did attempt to try and get some more but there was no one around to let us in. Nevertheless, we had a good chat and a quick photo by a badger mural before heading on our way with a big note to self to get more leaflets next time.

The Nottingham Green Festival is on 8th September and GoodGym have been asked if we can help clear up after the event. Sign up here and why not go along early and enjoy what looks like an amazing event!

Oh and good luck to Peter who is heading down to London this weekend for The Big Half – happy running!!