Sherwood Art Week

A week long festival of art and craft in Sherwood Nottingham
Sherwood Art Week (SAW) is an annual week–long celebration of local creativity set in the heart of Sherwood organised by enthusiastic volunteers from the local community.

3 GoodGymers have supported Sherwood Art Week with 2 tasks.


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Rachel LevickTom Oliver

Craft fair takedown

Saturday 22nd June

Written by Rachel Levick

GoodGym Nottingham returned to Sherwood to help tidy up after the Art Week Craft Fair. This time, Tom and Rachel went along to help with this task.

On arrival, the fair was still in full swing and visitors were making the most of the sunshine and good music. We had a few minutes to browse the craft stalls before packing began in earnest just after 4pm.

Our first job was to take down the bunting which we had put up less than 24 hours prior. Not before we had a few positive comments on how nice it looked (Peter).

Next Tom took on the challenge of dismantling a number of gazebos with some of the other volunteers (no mean feat on what was a full-on hot sunny afternoon). Meanwhile, Rachel helped with other bits and pieces including taking down some flags, litter picking, putting the chairs back in lines in the main church hall and running the hoover around the carpeted areas.

Thanks to Rachel and the rest of the Sherwood Art Week team for having us and we look forward to helping at some of the other projects you're involved in.

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Peter EdwardsRachel Levick

Good Will Bunting

Friday 21st June

Written by Rachel Levick

Peter and Rachel headed to the Sherwood United Reformed Church to help set up for a craft fair. The craft fair is the flagship event in Sherwood Art Week, an annual celebration of creativity organised by enthusiastic volunteers from the local community.

Our task was to put up as much bunting as we could find in an hour. Sounds easy, but lack of places to hang it, high ceilings and the fact that we're not the tallest GoodGymers made it a bit challenging.

Special well done to Peter for being chief hanger, excelling at flinging various bits of bunting over speakers, inserting cable ties wherever he could find a gap and tieing all the knots - we hope we can untie them when we take it down tomorrow!

After an hour (and a cheeky addition to the community noticeboard) we headed home, stopping to take in some of the other decorations that had been put up around Sherwood ahead of the Art Week.

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