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Allotment plots - good news

Following on from the opening of the first local allotments on a site in Grasmere generously given for rent (in a great show of community spirit) by the Wordsworth Hotel there, Ambleside too now has something to celebrate.

After beavering away for the last year the efforts of the Committee have finally borne fruit with the agreement of the Kelsick Trust to lease the land on the hill above the Old Kelsick Grammar School. This was the site which was first surveyed over a year ago but delays due to issues relating to possible utility services running across the planned site and other lease points meant that it is only now that we can go ahead. All on the Committee are very pleased but are appreciative too of the amount of work and funding which will be needed to realise our goal of a great community allotment site there. Thanks go to The Lakes Parish Council and the Lake District National Park's Sustainable Development Fund for the grants they have awarded us, it gets us off to a great start and we are now on-track to have our first plots in action for this year's growing season.

Anyone on our waiting list who would like more information about the site should contact our chair via this website in the first instance. The Grasmere site's plots have already been allocated but it is possible to join a waiting list.
FOR MORE ... click on this Getting An Allotment page link.

The Association - what it's about

The drive to create allotment sites in Ambleside has come from local residents and the Ambleside Allotments Association is the group they have set up to help make them happen.
FOR MORE ... click on this The Association page link.

Latest news - what's happening

Things are now happening quickly up on the new Kelsick site. Contractors have erected a deer fence around the site (a big thank you to the LDNPA Sustainable Development Fund for their funding support). In the last few weeks members and friends have been busy marking out plots, tidying up the rabbit fencing, planting the hedging trees donated by the Woodland Trust and sorting out a dodgy bough on the oak tree. See our News page for photos.

There's still some work to be done, but in the next few days we shall be allocating plots to those members who have expressed an interest. It's likely there will still be a few plots available, so if you're interested, please get in touch with us through our 'contact us' page.
FOR MORE ... click on this News page link.

Getting in touch with the AAA

Individual members from the AAA steering committee are available to answer your questions, it will be easier if you contact us by e-mail in the first instance, to do this go to our Contact Us page and fill in the form.
FOR MORE ... click on this Contact Us page link.

Being a member of the AAA

Membership of the association is open to those wishing to have an allotment and to anyone who wants to support us in this important community initiative. (a small annual membership fee is payable). You can learn more about being a member and plotholder.
FOR MORE ... click on this The Association page link.

Ambleside Climate Change Forum (CCF)

The Allotments Association was born out of the Ambleside Climate Change Forum. The group no longer maintains its own independent web site which was located at www.gogreenambleside.co.uk, but has a page located within this site.
FOR MORE ... click on this Ambleside CCF page link.

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This site was last updated Wednesday February 29, 2012