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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 means we can start preparing the site for next 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 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.
Find out for yourself what's going on by attending our AGM, it's in the Parish Centre on October 10th starting at 7.30pm. Existing members will need to pay to renew their membership, you can do this on the night (please remember to bring your membership card with you on the night as we'll use it to record your renewal). New members are welcome to join on the night.
Although an allotment site has been found for Ambleside, getting to productive growing plots in Ambleside is still going to need a lot of work. The committee will continue to organise progress and we would suggest that anyone planning to take up an allotment plot on the new Ambleside site will need to be prepared to put aside some time to help with practical work and fundraising acitivites. Help on the committee would also be appreciated. You can keep up with what's new on our News page.
FOR MORE ... click on this News page link.
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.
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).
FOR MORE ... Click on this Members' page link.
The Allotments Association was born out of the Ambleside Climate Change Forum. If you would like to learn more about that group then this Ambleside CCF link will take you to their page located within this site. (The group no longer maintains its own independent site which was located at www.gogreenambleside.co.uk).
This site was last updated Friday October 21, 2011
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This site was created by Linda Doran for the AAA; unless otherwise stated images by and © Photography by Ward
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