7 GoodGymers have supported Walter Halls School with 3 tasks.
Wednesday 29th January 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday 27th November 2024
Written by Nottingham runner
Sadly, Adele had to cancel our planned session due to a family illness. However, she did have a little something for us to do instead.
Peter, Nigel and Leah met up at the school with a bunch of leaflets to deliver. But it wasn't your standard drop-one-in-every-door-just-watch-out-for-snakes leafleting task.
Adele is looking for people who are having a bit of a home clear-out to donate some of their unwanted stuff for her to turn into playthings for the kids at the school - what a fab idea! (See the copy of the leaflet attached if you've got anything of your own) This meant we were looking for houses with For Sale or Sold signs.
We didn't find a huge number, but Nigel did have a chat with one person who was at their door when he dropped the leaflet and found out that the next-door neighbour had recently moved in, so we dropped one through their door too.
We just had time to pose with one of the scary children bollards before heading home for a well-earned warm-up!
Wednesday 11th September 2024
Written by Nottingham runner
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!
Saturday 18th May 2024
Written by Nottingham runner
What a fantastic morning!
We were part of a huge team helping to transform the school's massive play areas and open spaces.
Our contact Adele had one particular task in mind for us - moving some massive cable reels downhill to create a new playspace in a wooded area. Tom, Robert and our brand new member Andrew took care of the rolling while Rachel and Leah made sure the littlest GoodGymers were occupied and out of the way while tidying the remaining materials.
Next, we took some rubbish down to the bins (including tents!) and joined in with digging the sandpit, moving some very heavy metal picnic benches across the field, and shifting tyres and wheelbarrows full of the excavated soil up to yet another play area.
Definitely a firm favourite task for us all!