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membership benefits
MAKE THE MOST OF
YOUR MEMBERSHIP!
NAS members benefit from a wealth
of knowledge and resources and have the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping to raise the profile of allotment growing and protecting sites. Benefits include:
• FREE Allotmenteers’ Liability Insurance
for individual plotholders. Has your
association enrolled your group?
• Initial legal advice and support to create or develop sites and site
management.
• Supportive regional network; can
you offer time to promote allotment growing in your area? Contact your Regional Representative to find out how you can get involved.
• NAS members get a 25% discount on Allotment Association insurance from Chris Knott insurance.
• Quarterly magazine and e-magazine/ e-news in members area of the website.
• Individual Magazine subscription
for affiliates just £10 per annum!
• Discounted quality seeds from Kings
Seeds with online ordering facility and extra discounts for large orders.
• Retail discounts from well-known gardening suppliers.
• Gardening advice – members can send in their queries to Aaron Hickman, our Garden Doctor, and check out the monthly jobs on our website growing pages.
Like us on www.facebook.com/ Nationalallotmentsociety and link with other plotholders.
Check out www.nsalg.org.uk for further details.
Association secretaries are provided with log-in details for the members area – ask your association secretary for details today.
Heroic effort at
Kings Seeds
Many of you have contacted us here at Kings Seeds to say thank you for working 7 days a week throughout the pandemic, something that resulted in the majority of the office team contracting the virus earlier this year. That situation did cause communication difficulties and perhaps led to misunderstandings when the website had not been updated and we could not answer all calls and emails. We assure you that allotment orders were prioritised but Covid restrictions, reduced staffing levels in the warehouse due to social distancing and a massive increase in orders, caused despatch delays that we all have found frustrating.
Kings are a small company offering quality seeds at affordable prices that does its best for its customers and cares for its staff, who are all now very tired after working long shifts for the last year. By the time
you are reading this, we will hopefully be putting the worst of the pandemic behind us and enjoying our plots, our staff will have recovered, and we will all be back to near-normal routines.
The team at Kings Seeds thank you for your understanding and patience.
KINGS PLOT IS
TAKING A BREAK
Due to pressure of work, Andrew from Kings Seeds
is unable to write his usual quarterly account of sowings and growing on his plot. He will be back in the next issue with news of the varieties he has sown this year, how his potatoes have fared and his plans for the polytunnel.
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