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                                South West
Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset
 My favourite
spade
Here is a shot of my old spade. Now, I only use it to cut up materials in the compost bin.
Note the way it’s shaped – I think that’s because, for about 40 years, I would always dig in the same direction on my three plots! Until, of course, I went No Dig.
For the first time since I started using
it in 1965, it’s at home with me. I am using it to cut up the compost from the garden and kitchen. It has taken all of the shutdown time to fill my two coffee grounds dustbins I brought back from
a cafe down the road just before they closed due to the lockdown, so I thought I would make use of them. I wonder when they will return?
 The South West
Branch is formed!
At an inaugural Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 4 August 2020, using the Zoom video conferencing facility, the South West Branch came in to being. The Regional Constitution was adopted, and officers and committee members were elected. The Committee make-up is...
Tim Callard: Chair of the Region Ian Johnson: Vice Chair
Lynda Clarke: Secretary
Mark Joynes: Treasurer
Neil Dixon: Regional Rep
Allan Cavill: Regional Mentor
Bill Ware: Committee Member
Neil Birrell: Committee Member Lorraine Dillon: Committee Member Frances Laing: Committee Member
The group are looking forward to working with members to promote allotment growing in the Region and support the aims of the National Allotment Society.
  Wales
All counties of Wales
REPRESENTATIVE
Judith Hill
07724993310 or 02920 758080
Allan Cavill
MENTOR
Peter Ryan
Wales
0845 564 1881 pryan.nas@gmail.com
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 Welcome to our new members...
Amlwch Community Allotment Slaughterhouse Allotments
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   New support package for allotments in Wales
“Although Wales is known for its agriculture and is rural in nature, the demand for allotments exists in every local authority area, not just the larger cities and more urban conurbations. This funded work will help to ensure access to allotments is improved in areas where it is most needed.”
Research was also carried out on waiting lists for allotments, including the numbers of people on them and the length of time people may be waiting. The research revealed a number of sites in Wales where there are large numbers of people on a list, with some waiting many years to access a plot. The new funding will target those areas first and the NAS has offered support to create associations that can manage the new sites.
https://www.farmgarden.org. uk/news/welsh-allotment- regeneration-initiative
      More than £130,000 is being invested over the next nine months to help Welsh communities, housing associations
and local authorities, including town and community councils, to meet a growing demand for allotments. The development funding will support
the creation of new allotment sites, allow under used sites and plots to be turned into productive areas and new toolkits and guidance will be created to encourage others to do more to meet public interest in growing their own.
Over the last six months, the Social Farms & Gardens organisation has been mapping the current provision
of allotments and other community growing spaces. National Allotment Society members responded to a survey at the end of 2019 that fed into this research.
“The Welsh Government recognises the importance of allotments, not only as a means to producing affordable food, but for the health benefits they offer to plotholders, for the biodiversity they encourage even in the most urban of areas and for the important part they play in social cohesion,” said First Minister Mark Drakeford.
“This funding, supporting one of the First Minister’s priorities to increase allotment provision in Wales, is being delivered through a co-ordinated approach. Based on recent research, it is being targeted on evidence of need.
“Social Farms & Gardens have been active on the ground in Wales for many years and are wholly connected to the community food chain.
This funded work will help to ensure access to allotments is improved in areas where it is most needed
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