Well done to Sehrish who went along to the Windmill Community Gardens to help clear up after their annual Pumpkin Day event. Tracey and the team at the WCG were extremely grateful for your help!

Well done to Stephanie who did her first GoodGym task helping set up the Pumpkin Day at the Windmill Community Gardens. Tracey and the team were very grateful for all your help (and the extra pairs of hands you took along too!).

Finishing off our task from earlier this week, I headed out around Hyson Green delivering leaflets for Pumpkin Day!

Just gutted I can’t actually go!

It was a rare Monday night task for GoodGym Nottingham last night as Peter, Tom and Rachel took to the streets to help promote the Windmill Community Garden’s annual Pumpkin Day.

The task had been postponed from Saturday when the weather was not very pleasant, but we had a lovely mild and dry evening, perfect for delivering leaflets into doors around the roads adjacent to the community gardens.

We didn’t take a count, but we worked through a decent pile of leaflets between us and Peter even managed to get the staff at the David Lloyd health club and a local newsagents to take some to display for their customers.

The Pumpkin Day is an annual event celebrating all things autumnal and pumpkin-related – apple pressing, fancy dress, pumpkin carving, foraging, games and more. We have two GoodGym tasks running on Sunday 27th October to help set up and tidy away this event – if you are free on Sunday and fancy helping out, please sign up!

GoodGym Nottingham returned to the wonderful Windmill Community Gardens for our Wednesday night task. They are hosting their annual Feel Good Garden Party on Saturday and needed our help with a few jobs in preparation for the event.

Carley set us to work clearing a large pile of rubbish and wood, transporting it in wheelbarrows to a skip which was located a bit further down the entrance road. Our main challenge was avoiding all the rusty nails sticking out of the wood. Most of the pile was destined for the skip, but we managed to save some glass, plastic and metal for recycling. We also rescued several slugs and a dog made out of welly boots!

Once the first rubbish pile was clear, our next job was to fill our wheelbarrows with wood chip from outside the gate and transport it to the very back of the gardens where it would be laid to make a path. Not wanting to waste a wheelbarrow journey, we filled them with more rubble and wood for the skip on the way back out.

It was a warm, balmy evening in Nottingham (a rarity at the moment). So much so that at one point Nigel decided to take a shower…door, from the rubble pile. We finished with a quick photograph by our full skip and headed on our way.

What a smashing task!

See the pictures for details of the Feel Good Garden Party and other events at the Windmill Community Gardens.

In what might well be GG Nottingham's fastest request-to-task turnaround ever, Leah and Gaurav headed to help our friends at Windmill Community Gardens with a time-sensitive job that had had to be postponed from the weekend due to mini heatwave we've had.

After a delicious pasta lunch cooked on-site by the other volunteers using some of the Gardens' produce, we were introduced to the affectionately named "Murder Shed" (also known as the "Haunted Shed"). It's in a relatively recently acquired plot on the site and is due to be taken away for disposal on Monday. However, it was surrounded by overgrown plants and very tricky to access.

It had been mostly cleared during the morning, but we stepped in to rake up the cuttings and clear a path for access. We also helped move a big window and frame to get it out of the way.

Finally, we moved on to clear some spiky plants, weeds and nettles from the other side.

Hopefully the rest of the shed clearance goes well next week!