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)!!

Bozena, Leah and Rachel headed to Sneinton on Saturday to help with 'skip day'. This brilliant initiative was organised by the Sneinton Waste Action Group (SWAG), to enable local residents to dispose of unwanted items and waste in one time and place. Or rather, in two giant skips.

The base for the event was Lindum Grove Community Gardens where we have spent many-a-task previously, and on arrival we admired several recent changes including the growth of the trees we planted a while ago and a new perimeter fence (sadly replacing one of our dead hedges, but much needed to create a more contained and safe garden for children).

Skip day was in full swing with a group of enthusiastic volunteers taking receipt of various items of waste which were being dropped off by a steady stream of residents. These ranged from regular black bin bags of rubbish, right through to a large metal container resembling an oil drum and an old office chair, and everything in between. The team were sorting through items that could be re-purposed or gifted to others and the whole event had such a positive, festival vibe.

We spent an hour helping out by litter picking around some of the nearby roads and taking some items of fly-tipping to the skips. We managed to collect three bags full of litter, plus an old bike frame, a mattress and a slinky which had seen much better days.

Sadly we just missed the samba band who were about to start as we departed, but we had a great time playing a small part in this fab community event.

A stonking 10 GoodGymers descended on Walter Halls School this week for an evening of garden renovation. We were back in the same area we started last time that is being turned into a pond and wildflower garden.

We welcomed Peter for his first session, which he took with gusto, swinging a pickaxe like a pro, taking turns with Peter and assisted by Dayna and Rosemarie with spades.

Debbie and Aj started off by collecting stones to put in the tyre planters, then topped them up with branches and soil.

At one point, Pete M and Dayna (the two tallest people) helped remove a rainbow tarpaulin from the wooden pergola as it had seen better days and Adele wanted to repurpose the material for something else.

Nigel, Rachel and Marta planted some wild flowers in the no-dig beds we created, and Marta did a lot of watering with Debbie

Leah and one of the school staff, Emma, headed off up to the entrance to cut down some branches that had been causing a trip hazard on the paths, loading them into one of the now-empty tonne bags for use later in the planters.

Busy busy busy! Too bad ITV cancelled on us at the last minute!