Sing a song of GoodGym A cupboard full of ducks Four-and-twenty steel bars Have us in a state of flux

Sort out some lost clothing Give bits to charity Not the stash of undies, though That's destined for the bin

With the lurgy taking out several GoodGymers this week, it was a motley crew of three who turned up for our first visit to The Lenton Centre. We were greeted by Angela who led us down to the basement and showed us around.

Our first job was sorting out a few bin bags of unclaimed lost property to figure out what could be donated and what had to be ditched. It turns out that more people than you'd think leave their swimmers and towels behind after a dip in the pool, and more than a fair few apparently went home commando. Once they were sorted, Tom nipped down the road to put the donatables in a BHF bin down the road, while Leah and Heidi located the outside bin for the remainder.

Next, we were off to another room of the basement to put together a shelving unit that had clearly been waiting a while for assembly. With a combination of contortion, logic and brute strength (and a couple of random gardening tools and keys), we managed to get it together and just about stable. It's currently being guarded by the giant duck full of his own plastic brethren we found in a cupboard.

Finally, we took a bit more rubbish and recycling out to the bins before heading our separate ways.

There's plenty more for us to do there, can't wait to go back!

A massive well done to Matt who did his 40th task last night in Nottingham. It was a bit of a last-minute call-up as we only found out about this session a few hours before, but eager to get his hands dirty once again, Matt headed into Nottingham city centre to join the Kindness Angels in handing out bags of food and supplies to people in need.

More information can be found on this Facebook post.

The Kindness Angels group has been set up with the aim of scattering kindness to those on our streets in Nottingham. They are doing a fantastic job and even featured on BBC Nottingham this week. We hope to team up with them for more events in future.

You know you've got a good bunch of GoodGymers when eight of them turn up on a windy, close-to-freezing evening in February to paint railings.

After a little bit of stalling having a look round the glorious entrance area at The Atrium, we grabbed the paint and brushes and headed outside.

We decided to split into two teams of four starting at opposite ends of the first section of gates, each with two on the outside and two on the inside in an effort to make things as efficient as possible. It's going to be a massive job (we're scheduled to come back in a couple of weeks and will likely be back a few more times as we get towards the summer), but I think we made a good start! Just look at the difference in the pics.

Belated congratulations to Khiltee on her 10th task, and shoutout to Florence for hitting a fabulous 15! An additional thanks goes to Rachel who figured out that washing-up liquid is the best way to get this kind of paint off your skin!

With January coming to an end, GoodGym Nottingham squeezed in one final task, our second in two days! Our original plan was to be inside at the Sherwood Community Centre, but we had to postpone this due to illness. Instead, we took to the streets of Sherwood to do a spot of litter picking.

Leah, Matt, Rachel and first-timer, Caroline, spent the hour tidying up the litter outside the shops along both sides of Mansfield Road. There were no significant finds, other than what looked like the back of a wing mirror from a bus. Nevertheless, the team filled two bags and left feeling satisfied that the area was looking a little less littery than when they started.

The week’s doubleheader means that GoodGym Nottingham has smashed its January Challenge total with 42 individual good deeds this month. We kick off next month with a new task at the ICCA in Nottingham. Sign up here.

it was a return visit to The Place Sherwood for 10 intrepid Goodgymers to apply a second coat to the walls ( though it was so toasty inside no second coats were needed to be worn!) and smash through our January Challenge pledge! After Tom and Nigel wrestled the ladder upstairs it was brushes and rollers at the ready as we got stuck in. We had great encouragement from our task owner Rachel who made sure we were fuelled up with plenty of hot chocolate and biscuits. Proving that many hands make light work Giovanna (making her Goodgym debut - welcome), Peter, Leah, Heidi, Aj, Florence, Khiltee and Phil soon had that second coat of paint on leaving enough time for Matt to set to with the filler. With still more to do it looks like we will be back but for now it’s in with tomorrow’s task, the last of the January Challenge!

The Sherwood Community Centre played host to this week’s task in Nottingham. As usual, we were met by the lovely Louise on arrival and, once we’d all navigated the quirky airlock doors, we got to work on various tasks around the building.

Most of us started on clearing up leaves from the grounds using a cute little green trolley and the green plastic leaf picker-uppers which make you feel like a frog! Meanwhile, newcomers Jasmine and Stephanie popped off to do a very special job – measuring the dimensions of the ‘Sherwood Community Centre’ sign which stands on a grassy verge along the road. Once back, they joined Leah and Florence who were moving paint from a storage cupboard up to the art studio.

Towards the end of the hour, Matt, Aj and Nigel moved inside to help with more jobs, including attempting to open a mystery cabinet within a storage cupboard, while other first-timer, Sarah, finished up clearing the leaves outside with Rachel.

We’ll be back at the Sherwood Community Centre next Thursday (not our usual Wednesday). On Wednesday, we’ll be heading to The Place, so there is an opportunity to get TWO GoodGym tasks under your belt next week before the end of the month. Sign up here.