We teamed up with the Nottingham Clean Champions as part of the Great British Spring Clean.

Armed with a new set of litter pickers provided by the Council team, we split up and covered quite a big area following the side streets off Hucknall Road.

Matt was, as always, highly committed to getting every last piece of rubbish (check out the pics) and I think gets to claim victory in the "weirdest find" competition for the bra and some, err, questionable-looking spray cans. Hopefully Volume 2 of the mix CD we found was better received than Volume 1 presumably was.

Welcome to Shauna and Annie who joined us for their first tasks!

A rare Friday evening task saw Matt, Rachel and new GoodGymer, Mohamad, head to the Greenway Centre in Sneinton.

The centre is the new home of IMPACD CIC a fantastic community organisation which works to reduce isolation and improve wellbeing through inclusive creative activity. This includes dance, drumming, mosaic art and photography classes for all ages.

We met Amanda on arrival who filled us in on the plans and immediate priorities. The property used to be a boxing club so their team had already made a huge transformation, but it faced a few on-going challenges including a water leak from the storm the previous night.

Due to the flooding, we couldn't help with laying the new floor which was originally planned, so instead we spent the first hour in the courtyard area at the back of the centre, clearing and sweeping up rubble and moving it to the bin out the front.

Next, Matt, Mohamad and one of the centre's students, Alex, set upon dismantling a wooden awning structure that had seen better days. It was thought that this may be contributing to the water getting into the building. Meanwhile, Rachel removed a bunch if stinging nettles from around the yard. The longterm plan is to turn the yard into a sensory play area and we hope to be able to help more with this going forward.

As the light began to fade, and after a brief coffee/tea break, the team spent the rest of the time scraping some of the loose paint from the shutters at the front of the building. They were due to be painted by a graffiti artist in the coming days and we look forward to seeing the finished result!

It was great to meet Amanda (and her two very cute sausage dogs!) and to find out more about IMPACD CIC. We hope to book in another date soon to help them continue the big renovation project.

Welcome to Mohamad who joined for his first GoodGym task.