Last night’s GoodGym Nottingham task was meant to see us helping at the Meadows Foodbank. However, for the second week running, a last-minute change of plan was needed, this time due to illness (get well soon Mark!).

Luckily, Leah had a stash of purple bags and gloves in her car, so not to be defeated again, we quickly switched gears and turned our attention to litter picking around the local area. As there were so many of us, we split into two groups and collectively managed to fill 4 bags of litter which had been lurking amongst the fallen leaves – impressive given how clean and tidy the area actually looked and that some of us were wheeling bikes around whilst picking!

It may not have been the task we originally planned, but we still got out, got moving and made a difference. Thanks to everyone who came for being so adaptable, and we will hopefully reschedule our visit to the Foodbank for a future week.

A big welcome to Georgie who joined us for the first time!

Next week we will be at the Brandon Lawerence Sports Centre – sign up here.

There's not a lot that will stop a GoodGymmer completing a task.

We've litter-picked in -3°C, we've weeded instead of watching an important World Cup match, we've painted railings and cut down bushes by the light of a headtorch…

But this week we were foiled. Unfortunately, a group had gone on a coach trip down to Birmingham and left a tonne of cars in the car park at the ICCA. They'd told the staff they'd be back by 5, but at 6:45 they hadn't arrived. As any of you who've been to one of these tasks knows, that paint gets EVERYWHERE and we agreed with the staff that we couldn't risk getting it all over the cars. And even scraping would have caused the flakes to get all over everything.

With no backup litter-pickers in the car after a pre-holiday boot shuffle, we had to abandon the task.

Thanks to Peter, Nigel and Leah for trying! We'll be back at the end of November to try again.

Better late than never!

The painting continued at the ICCA, this time assisted by head torches.

It was a bit of a smaller group but we made some decent headway along the railings – all that scraping is really paying off as the paint goes on faster!

Let's see if we can finish before the summer!

Robert and MiniGGer Milo joined the volunteers for a rather blustery morning at Forest Rec thanks to Storm Boelo.

A hardy bunch of 25 kids finished the run despite the weather, and Milo claims he gave out at least 100 high fives with his big foam hand.

On a dark, damp night it was good to be inside the Sherwood Community Centre.

Laid out before us were a plethora of brushes, rollers, trays and paint and we rolled up our sleeves in true GoodGym fashion.

We split in to two teams with Matt, Charlie, Dayna and Peter on one side and Walter, Khiltee, Florence and first timer Martin on the other.

We were so efficient that there was even time for Charlie and Matt to vacuum, sweep and mop some floors and for Peter to make a start on cleaning the brushes, trays and rollers.

Welcome aboard Martin, we hope you enjoyed your first task with and hopefully see you again soon.

it was a bit nippy at the Forest Recreation for Junior parkrun.

Amongst the fallen leaves Peter put on his hi-viz and helped cheer on 41 young runners who ran and walked around the 2km course.

it might be 9:00 in the morning but I recommend it as a great way to start your Sunday (and the cafe does great coffee and cakes!!!)