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Yorkshire
Yorkshire and parts of Humberside
REPRESENTATIVE
Mike Farrell
Yorkshire & Humberside 07802 196 688 mfarrell.nas@gmail.com
MENTOR
Tony Urwin
Yorkshire & Humberside 0845 250 1292 turwin.nas@gmail.com
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Victory Garden Allotment Association BBQ
Victory Garden AA put on a BBQ for plotholders, relatives, and friends. It was a lovely sunny day.
The week prior to the event, the chairman and I judged the best full, best half, best quarter, and best newcomers plot onsite. We also judged the best scarecrow created by adults and children’s entries also, for awards to be presented at the BBQ. There were so many good entries that we awarded a highly commended certificate for each category as well.
A very pleasant afternoon was had by all.
Bedale Allotments
– a lesson to be learned
Bedale Allotments was a church-owned site. The church wished to sell the whole allotment site for housing development. Like many other private sites, it didn’t have statutory status, so could not rely upon the law of the land to protect it.
How do you protect this kind of site? Well, the campaigners put together a petition and obtained many signatures against the proposed sale of the land. They ran an intense media campaign objecting to the disposal of the allotments on moral grounds and gathered support wherever possible.
The outcome was successful, and with guidance and advice from our very own NAS, the landlord entered into negotiations. The outcome was that the landlord only sold half the site for housing development and gave the other half to the allotment association with a good amount of funding to greatly improve the facilities for the plotholders. Now that the association owned the site, it was necessary to become a limited company, again with guidance from NAS.
Bruce Stainsby, who led the campaign, has compiled a complete file on how this successful campaign was run and is quite prepared to share this information through the NAS with any allotment site that finds itself in this same situation.
It was a good outcome for the site. It is lovely and has now got some excellent facilities. The plots are a little smaller, but the plotholders are very happy with the outcome.
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