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                                 Yorkshire
Yorkshire and parts of Humberside
Enhancing our Community Space
     Hempland Lane allotments, York, last wrote an article in July 2019 after an incredible summer fair was held to celebrate our new community space
– Hempland Haven. We managed an autumn show, and official opening ceremony, followed by a few coffee mornings over winter but, as with most things, it all ceased in March 2020 due to COVID19.
The committee quickly moved to Zoom meetings and have continued to achieve things behind the scenes, including applying for various grants and funding. We are now enhancing our community ready for when we can get together again. Although we are all nervous about a rise in infections in the future, we have to plan for better times. We have decided not to have
a large summer event this year but,
when safe, we will reopen our Sunday coffee mornings. With this in mind, on 9th March 2021 our 6m x 3.4m gazebo was installed (all funded by Co-op Community Fund). We will also give
it a sedum roof (funded by Heworth Ward) to encourage wildlife and enable it to blend into the area. We have
also secured funding for two pop-up gazebos, which will continue to give
us shade and shelter from our typical British weather and allowing for social distancing (funded by Heworth Ward).
The Co-op Community Fund was awarded in November 2020 for just over £4,000. We ordered the gazebo straight away, but due to our small association we do not have online banking set up. As such we had to wait for our good old- fashioned cheque to clear before the company could place our order. There
The committee quickly moved to Zoom meetings and have continued to achieve things behind the scenes
were a few delays due to Brexit (as the wood came from Holland). With our money we were also able to pay for it to be installed, which meant we left two professionals to it, operating in COVID- safe practices.
Gayle Enion-Farrington
For further information please visit our website www.hempland- lane-allotments.co.uk or Facebook Hempland Lane Allotments
Photos of what was built in 2 days
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