If you would like to join the new Wrekin Co-operative Allotment Society please contact me. The Council has a legal responsibility to provide sufficient allotments for local residents. However due to the increased demand for allotments there are now long waiting lists.
That is why we have formed our own Allotment Society to rent 4 acres of land near Wellington with wonderful views over the Shropshire Countryside. You are welcome to join the team of volunteers setting up an Allotment Society to convert the land into Allotments.
If you are interested in being part of this exciting new project to run and manage our own site with space for fifty new allotments please contact me.
Dear Paul
HELP!! I am a member of a thriving Allotment community in the London Borough of Barnet [North London]. There are some 50 Allotment sites in the Boro’, all of which are under threat of ‘privatisation’ [...read to sell?] by the Conservative Council to show their skills in recovering the huge Boro’ debt [Lost some £27m taxpayers money in Icelandic debacle]. The Boro Councillors refuse to consider alternative strategies. Your Co-op Allotment Society structure is an interesting model.
Id be most grateful if you could point me in the direction of any practical advice/guidance in exploring this alternative? A ”long shot’ from the ‘deep south’…..; but we are under threat once again from a tory ‘fire-sale’. Hope to hear from you, Mike Fisher
Hi Mike – this is a political battle you have to win. Contact the National Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardeners – they will give you an update on current legislation. Find them on http://www.nsalg.org.uk
Setting up a Co-operative Allotment Society gives you a vehicle to lobby with and will attract members from people committed to the cause – model rules on nsalg.org.uk site
You could create a real pressure group tapping into the revival of interest in allotments, which would also get the support of the press.
Best of Luck – let me know how you get on