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to £14,000 and we received it for free! A team ranging Pros: Free, supervised, labour for your association plus
from 3-6 staff worked so hard, at times in temperatures offenders learn new skills whilst contributing to society.
of over 30 degrees. They were on site at 7am every Feedback from offenders is that they learn about the
morning and worked until an appropriate time to end positives of allotments.
each day. The Sainsbury’s Monks Cross store and our
committee kept them fed and watered. The staff knew Cons: Can be time consuming to organise and manage.
we really appreciated what they were doing for us but You may need to ‘supervise the supervisor’ to ensure
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their true motivation was when they could see what satisfactory results. Sometimes plot holders need
their work could do for our community.
The day of the summer fair was phenomenal. We were blessed with an amazing sunny day and were all set up by 9.30am, including a fully licensed bar (courtesy of
our local public house,The Walnut Tree, Heworth), plus stalls from local nurseries, charities, craft stalls, through to raffle and tombola. The Sainsbury’s Store Manager and his team cooked on the BBQs, ran a book stall, sold raffle tickets and helped on stalls. They even brought along a Sainsbury’s home delivery van to provide refrigeration throughout the event, as well as donating lots of food and supplies to help us continue to operate. We were all buzzing and excited for the day. Yet nothing prepared us for the volume of people that came to support us! We made nearly £2500 on the day, including £1,100 on our raffle (the prizes were fabulous, all donated by the local community). The money raised on the day covered the cost of the materials that ARCUS used to help finish off the project. We only went over by a small amount due to legalities, licences, portaloo hire etc to ensure that the event ran smoothly. All in all, it was an absolute success and we are all so proud of what has been achieved.”
Community Pay Back
What: Previously known as ‘community sentencing’. Under supervision, offenders convicted of low-level crime provide physical labour to pay back the community for their offence. To nominate your association’s idea as a community pay back project, contact HM Prison and Probation Service. To read about an association that has successfully used community pay back, see part 7.
persuading to accept offenders on-site. The standard of the work can be variable.
Internet Crowd Funding
What: Fundraising on the internet. Your association asks the public to donate money to your good cause by using a webpage on a crowd funding web-platform. Some allow you to run a prize draw rather than purely asking for money. Examples are Crowdfunder.co.uk and Justgiving.com. Crowdfunding works best when there is a current news-style story to tell that pulls on people’s emotions, e.g. if your site has been vandalised.
Pros: Can generate a surprisingly large amount of money, with the right story told at the right pitch. Can ‘drip-feed’ a regular small income you might struggle to find elsewhere.
Cons: Some websites take a percentage cut of donations. If you upload images you will need permission from people in the images. There is no guarantee of success, is competitive because there are many good causes using this method.
CASE STUDY: “Internet Crowd Funding: Brindle Road Allotments in Bamber Bridge”
Brindle Road Allotments is now reaping the rewards
of a good plan in the face of an emergency on the site. “We are a small self-managed allotment association run by volunteers. We have 48 plots in total. Recently we have had several break-ins. In fact, we have had four break-ins in one year alone spread over several months. Intruders have targeted the majority of the plots, causing
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