Allotment funds
 

Hi,

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

TIA.

"flash" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I
am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around
for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

TIA.

A good old standbye is for members to dig up a few of their perennials and
pot 'em up for a plant sale.....a local garden club just raised over 2,000
pounds with this year's annual plant sale...most of the plants being donated
by members but some by local nurseries...credit via a home made sighn given
to each nursery donating.....H

"flash" wrote in message
...

Hi,

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I
am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around
for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

TIA.


It would help if you were to say 'what' the funds were wanted for.

Have you tried the local Rotary?

Local Masonic Fraternity? (Look in the local telephone directory or contact
me with your whereabouts)

County Council? (OK I know Parish Council)

Farmers Association and/or Suppliers?

To name just a few;-))))

Mike

"flash" wrote ...

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I
am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around
for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?


Check out www.green-space.org.uk and get their book "Claiming your share" it
lists all the grant bodies there are and what they will fund with regard to
Parks and open spaces like allotments.

Like www.awardsforall.org.uk or www.tudortrust.org.uk

Depends how much you want, but if it's big money then there is the Landfill
Tax Credit Scheme run by Entrust. Provided your land is within 10 miles of a
landfill site you can apply but you need to find the local Entrust approved
body that does it for you. You cannot apply yourself.
http://www.entrust.org.uk/


There is one Grant Body that specialises in Allotments, I'll try and find it
for you....sorry can't, too many papers to wade through.

The Heritage Lottery Fund are dreadful, 42 page application form sent to me
after I wrote and described what I wanted it for and then after I take days
filling it in with all the information they want they throw it in the bin
because a new Park has no heritage. Could have told me that at the outset.
Living Spaces are even worse, they send out an application and then change
the goalposts without telling you then reject your application because of
the "secret" change and tell you they are now not sending out any new
applications for two years! More days wasted.

Other Grant bodies do not reply to e-mails, ever. Of all the ones I've
contacted, and it's a lot, only one replied properly and another with a auto
message, the rest ignored the e-mails. You have to telephone or write.

You will rapidly come to the conclusion that the people that work for these
organisations couldn't get a proper job.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

The message
from "flash" contains these words:

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

You'd have to produce a pretty revolutionary plan to qualify for a
lottery grant.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:42:24 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from "flash" contains these words:

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

You'd have to produce a pretty revolutionary plan to qualify for a
lottery grant.

Yes, says she bitterly who spent a deal of time a few weeks ago
putting in an application, and being turned down. That was not to do
with gardening however, but I feel quite bitter about their reasons
for turniing us down.

Pam in Bristol

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:42:24 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from "flash" contains these words:

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

You'd have to produce a pretty revolutionary plan to qualify for a
lottery grant.


Indeed. Nowadays you would have to establish that you were
encouraging a suitable quota of ethnic minorities etc. to join your
allotment society or give good reasons for their absence. You would
also have to account for any lack of disabled people and the sexually
diverse.
My local Council, in its application form for an allotment, requires,
among other intrusive and unnecessary questions, to know the
applicant's ethnic origins and what the applicant intends to grow on
the allotment. Possibly unconnected, or perhaps not, there are
several allotment sites around the town completely unused and badly
overgrown.

In article , Jupiter
writes

My local Council, in its application form for an allotment, requires,
among other intrusive

and unnecessary questions, to know the
applicant's ethnic origins

Usually not compulsory to answer this. It's there to guard against
unintentional discrimination. How do you know you are not discriminating
if you don't know the applicant's ethnic group?

and what the applicant intends to grow on
the allotment.

Could be relevant .... suppose I intended to use my allotment to carry
out breeding experiments on thistles? ;-)

Possibly unconnected, or perhaps not, there are
several allotment sites around the town completely unused and badly
overgrown.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , flash
writes

Hi,

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

TIA.

Try your local county councillor for some of their "locality budget"
this is money they have available to distribute at their discretion

--
David

Pam Moore wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:42:24 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from "flash" contains these words:

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying for a lottery grant.

You'd have to produce a pretty revolutionary plan to qualify for a
lottery grant.

Yes, says she bitterly who spent a deal of time a few weeks ago
putting in an application, and being turned down. That was not to do
with gardening however, but I feel quite bitter about their reasons
for turniing us down.

You would have been OK had you claimed you were a lesbian disabled arts
groups. Would have got funding right away then.
--�
purebred poultry
www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 06:40:20 +0100, Kay
wrote:

In article , Jupiter
writes

My local Council, in its application form for an allotment, requires,
among other intrusive

and unnecessary questions, to know the
applicant's ethnic origins

Usually not compulsory to answer this. It's there to guard against
unintentional discrimination. How do you know you are not discriminating
if you don't know the applicant's ethnic group?

I never answer that kind of question on principle. None of their
business and also facilitiates illegal positive discrimination and
discrimination against white people. I didn't like racial
classification as formerly used in South Africa and I don't like it
here.

and what the applicant intends to grow on
the allotment.

Could be relevant .... suppose I intended to use my allotment to carry
out breeding experiments on thistles? ;-)

Wouldn't be any worse than the Council's own current experiments in
breeding elderberry, brambles, nettles, couch grass, etc. on the
derelict allotment sites.


Possibly unconnected, or perhaps not, there are
several allotment sites around the town completely unused and badly
overgrown.

"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

Check out www.green-space.org.uk and get their book "Claiming your share"
it
lists all the grant bodies there are and what they will fund with regard
to
Parks and open spaces like allotments.

Like www.awardsforall.org.uk or www.tudortrust.org.uk


Cheers Bob. Some very useful stuff there. Much appreciated.

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message


You want the most recent paperback edition of a very useful book
called the Directory of Grant-Making Trusts. Should be available on
special request from your local library, but if not..a very worthwhile
personal investment. Also, contact your local branch of Community
Service Volunteers, and your County Council. Start at their Local
Voluntary Groups co-ordinator and work your way along to Community
Education. Do not pass up a personal encounter with your local (county)
councillor at his/her local "surgery" meetings.


Thanks Janet.

In article , "flash" wrote:

Hi,

Due to a failure not to take one step backwards when everyone else did, I am
now treasurer of a newly founded allotment society.

The allotment site could do with some investment and I am looking around for
any organisations I could obtain a grant from - in conjunction with the
societies own fund raising activities.

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of applying
for a lottery grant.

Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

TIA.

Allotments Regeneration Initiative

http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/ari/
You're just too late
"came to an end in February 2005. There are currently no further grants
available."

But keep your eye on the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
for new developments...

Cheers

John McMillan

The message
from Pam Moore contains these words:
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:42:24 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:
The message
from "flash" contains these words:

So far I have tapped up the Parish Council and am in the process of
applying
for a lottery grant.

You'd have to produce a pretty revolutionary plan to qualify for a
lottery grant.

Yes, says she bitterly who spent a deal of time a few weeks ago
putting in an application, and being turned down. That was not to do
with gardening however, but I feel quite bitter about their reasons
for turniing us down.

It has to be (more-or-less, tending towards more) the sort of thing they
can trumpet all over the local press for weeks, and make a big splash in
the nationals - well, that's the impression I get. Also (I may be wrong
here) I think it has to benefit pretty nearly the whole community should
they wish to avail themselves of it, and I fear that the mere
continuation of allotments, even if improvements are contemplated,
haven't a wide enough remit.

The trouble is, I can't think of any organisation/body which would
benefit by helping allotmenteers, so it's difficult to know where to
start looking. However, I will ask an allotmenteer who doesn't take urg
and see if she has any suggestions.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/