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• Provide a little info about the history of the site, e.g. if you know how old it is or how the site came about. Don’t let this take over your application as applications from allotments can often include too much history and insufficient detail on outcomes.
EVIDENCE: PEOPLE AND PLACES
Your allotment site reaches out to and serves a specific geographic area. This is useful evidence to explain and back-up to funders. Take care to explain this is not
just the immediate streets surrounding your site as most allotment sites are expected by the local council/
xt few slides in the deck.
• Provide some photographic evidence e.g. if a built up landowner to accept people onto the waiting list from
area without green space or a rural area with few anywhere in the entire council boundary area. This
services/facilities/shops.
• Photographs of your site – this might be areas you are proud of and/or areas seeking improvement. You could also include photos of social life on your site but remember to get permission from people in photographs.
Outcomes:“the local community will have increased awareness of and access to the multiple and recognised benefits of allotments, community cohesion will increase and a deep sense of place created and/or enhanced.”
Evidence of demand for allotments
• Your site waiting list numbers and length of time people have been waiting for a plot plus the same information from your local authority for the whole local authority area.
• Information about demand from your council’s allotment strategy if there is one; green space strategy or statutory open space strategy.
• Ask local people for quotes about demand for allotments, especially those on your waiting list (“I wish I had an allotment because....” or “the difference it would make to my kids if their school had a plot at the allotments”).
Outcomes:“contribution to meeting the high demand for allotments in the [ward/town] area.”
evidence shows that your association’s idea will directly and indirectly help people beyond the immediate vicinity of the allotment site. Tell the funder this evidence is your “catchment area and reach”.
Your first port of call for evidence about people and places should always be your local authority’s website. This will be the website of the local district council or borough or county council. You should seek out the following sources of information as a top priority as they provide a wealth of evidence at council ward level in a relatively easy format.
Ward Profiles: these are published by your local authority, usually in an easy-to-understand format. Ward profiles include information on the population (demographics) including age groupings, ethnicity, health, housing, and economic information per council ward, about both adults and children. Ensure you look up information about all the council wards your allotment site serves.
Public Health Outcomes Framework: provides indicators on life expectancy, inequality, disabilities.
If you are not comfortable looking at detailed information, your local authority health and wellbeing strategy will likely contain basic summaries of key information from ward profiles and the public health outcome framework.
Outcome:“people beyond the allotment site will experience positive changes as an outcome of our idea”.
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