This month we are promoting our new community project, our Community Allotment. We have secured a half plot on the Princes Road allotments and we now need to build up a team of people who can help. Help may not necessarily be digging and planting, which can be hard work, but also raising seedlings for us, or, planning the plot and planning the year for what we want to plant, which could be flowers as well as fruit and vegetables. Also there are other jobs like painting the shed inside and out, designing our irrigation system and we’re sure there are many more.

We want to make it as accessible as we can, so, for example if you find it difficult bending over we can plan to have some raised planters, also if we get permission to have a green house at some point, this would be very light work with some raised benches. There may be many more ways we can accommodate people with different levels of fitness, so if you’ve had any experience of this please let us know.

The way we see it working is, there is a plot holder who is the key person responsible, that is Mark Springett the CEO of MLCT, and keen gardener. There are also “associates”, these people are registered with the allotment association and are allowed to access and work on the plot alone, but crucially, they are also allowed to have people accompany them to work on the plot, we see this (associate plus volunteer) as a very crucial way to include volunteers who don’t want the responsibility of the key.

So, if you would like to volunteer and be part of our community allotment and most importantly, and share the spoils of our labour, please get in touch using the details below.