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NEW National Allotment Society Gift Card
Individual membership of the Society or a magazine subscription makes an ideal gift for a keen plotholder and this year we have produced a gift card.
Just download the application forms from the Join Us/ Membership Fees page of the website and send in with a cheque for the appropriate amount to Head Of ce.
We will send you a gift card to give to the lucky person and process the membership or subscription to start in 2016. So please don’t forget to send in your own name and address too.
Individual membership £23pa
Magazine subscription £10pa for af liate members, £15pa for non-members
Photo credit: Jess and Mick Barnes
Just half an hour in the allotment can
have physical and mental
health bene ts
The Society welcomes the new study by researchers at the Universities of Westminster
and Essex, which has found that even a small amount of participation in allotment gardening can have signi cant bene ts on health. Their ndings were published in the Journal of Public Health on 30th October 2015.
This report af rms our view that allotments
make a signi cant contribution to the health and well-being of citizens and we would argue that this should be acknowledged by councils in their Health and Well-being Policies and that their allotment services should be expanded and protected.
Attention site secretaries
Do you have a website? If so we could pass on the link to the turning pages of our magazine so that your members can read online as well
as the paper copies to share. The magazines are a resource of useful information and we have now put together a 2015 index to help you nd speci c articles.
Please do not forget to let your members know about the discount page on the website, there is no need to log-in, just go to the ‘Join Us’ tab. Current discounts include QVS Shop, Norfolk Greenhouses, Forest Holidays, Medicash, Maxicrop, Goodlife Gateway, The Horticulture Shop, Popadome and Butler and Hill map gifts.
Contact natsoc@
nsalg.org.uk for
the link.
Bee Summit
9th November 2015
Representatives from the Society attended the second Bee Summit organised by the Bee Coalition.
The rst summit in 2013 resulted
in the production of the National Pollinator Strategy and delegates at the November 2015 event looked at successful initiatives and listened to reports from academics who have grave concerns for the future. The Society has produced a lea et with handy tips for a pollinator friendly plot and NAS members are involved with local initiatives e.g. the Get Bristol Buzzing campaign.
The Bee Coalition are now calling on the Government to fund research into and monitoring of pollinating insects along with taking signi cant steps to reduce the risks from chemicals used in farming, especially neonicotinoids.
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You have been gifted a year’s...
MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL ALLOTMENT SOCIETY
or
ALLOTMENT AND LEISURE GARDENER MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION
Enjoy!
Your magazine/membership details are on their way.
Cover image credit: Jess and Mick Barnes of Devon.