Allotments win award of £10,000

[Paul Lincoln]

Edible Golden Lane has bagged a share of a £11.5million carrier bag charge fund.
We are delighted to announce we have bagged £10,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
• The supermarket teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help initiative, which saw grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag levy – being awarded to environmental and greenspace projects.
• Over 4,500 groups up and down the country applied for grants from the scheme. These were whittled down to three in each of Tesco’s regions.
• 1170 organisations in from each of Tesco’s 390 regions up and down the UK received a share of the Bags of Help fund.
Eight million shoppers voted in stores up and down the country and it can now be revealed Edible Golden Lane has been awarded £10,000.
The results have been announced and we will now begin work on bringing our project to life.
The new boxes arrive in pieces on Friday 18th March and over the weekend volunteers will be putting them together. The Edible Golden Lane project, started in 2010, created 40, 1 tonne bag ‘allotments’ on the site of the old nursery playground. These bags and the pallets they were on had started to decay and the site was becoming dangerous. We gained planning permission to replace the bags with boxes and the Tesco’s Bags of Help grant will fund 42 new boxes allowing us to shorten our waiting list and provide more durable and accessible planting areas.
We are looking forward to a successful growing season with our new boxes and invite all residents to our monthly Social Sunday’s to see how everything is progressing and to the opening of the allotments to the public for the Saturday of Open Garden Squares weekend in June.

[Iain Meek]

Congratulations to all who grow in her.  :)

[Maria Elizabeth Prior]

I am one Iain!  I mean I won't be planting myself in a box, as I'm sure some in the City Corporation would wish I did, but am looking forward to planting lots of fruit and veg. 

[Fiona Byrne]

Congratulations to all involved. 

Paul, how might I go about adding my name to the waiting list? I've been on the estate two years now but only just managed to change my working situation to allow time for regular allotment upkeep. 

Thanks