This years compost will be delivered on Thursday 10th March between around 10:00am and 11:00am to the association buildings adjacent to the main car park. The compost has to be off loaded manually. If anyone among you has the time to come and help it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance from the committee.
The allotments Annual General Meeting will be held commencing at 10:00am on Sunday 3rd April 2016 in the poly-tunnel outside the association buildings. All allotment members are of course urged to attend.
There are a number of important matters which need to be discussed along with the election of officials for the coming year. With this in mind can you please make every effort to attend as this will be your only opportunity to influence the way YOUR allotments are run and who makes the decisions.
We are also looking to recruit some extra members to the committee to help the few currently running the association. These allotments belong to you and are run for your personal benefit, the current committee members feel that more of you should become involved in helping with the day to day running of it and the ongoing work that needs to be done on behalf of us all. Please express your interest to any of the current committee including Jackie Medcalf, Steve York and Steve Williams. Don’t keep assuming that someone else will be doing it please start to get involved yourself.
After the successful vote last year, for which I thank you. We are now a Community benefit company…our official title is
OLD PARK FARM ALLOTMENTS COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Can I ask you too make note of a change to the normal date of the AGM this year it will be held on SUNDAY 3rd April at 10.00am. This is due to the unavailability of two members of the committee and the early Easter Holidays.
PRESENT:
STEVE YORKE : STEVE WILLIAMS: JACKIE MEDCALF : JOHN GALLAGHER: RONNIE GAYLE: STEVE MEDCALF : JANE BOWDEN. ( Winifred Beck joined meeting as guest)
APOLOGIES;
BRIAN WATSON.
M&M’S:
Discussed if we needed roadstone and how much of it. Would not be a bad idea to have a small load when available.
Steve will re -spray weeds again before end of season. Barbara’s husband at queried if spray could have affected a row of potatoes near the hedge.
Weeds in both unoccupied and occupied gardens are becoming a problem. Complaint about one gardener in particular. Jackie will talk to that tenant.
Discussion around should we the committee intervene and then charge for doing so where weeding is not being done. Agreed to make this an item for discussion at the next AGM:
Minutes from 15th August agreed. Proposer SM and seconded JG.
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Could everyone coming to the bonfire night party tonight in vehicles please park their cars on Old Coach Road outside the allotments please, this is for safety reasons. Whilst we are providing the fire and the food and beer we will not be providing fireworks so please bring your own. An area will be set aside for fireworks launching.
We are going to hold a Bonfire Night Party on the main car park on Saturday 7th November this year starting at around 6pm. You are welcome to bring your own fireworks if you wish to and an area will be set aside for that. We will provide the fire, hot dogs and mushy peas. If you intend to attend can you let Jackie know numbers please for catering purposes.
From tomorrow morning for a few days there will be a skip on the main car park for our communal use. Please be reminded that the following are not allowed in the skip: Asbestos, Gas Bottles, Car Tyres, Car Batteries, Paint Tins or any Electrical Goods including Fluorescent Light Tubes. Please do not bring any rubbish from home either as happened last time, the skip is purely for rubbish from the gardens which cannot be readily burned on a burning day, bricks, rubble and that sort of thing. Anyone putting anything other than approved rubbish will be charged for part of the skip hire.
Sad to say that our resident thief has struck again. In recent weeks there have been a number of thefts such as tools going missing from garden sheds. In the last week however one of our gardeners has had all of the fruit stripped from his Conference Pear tree. Fruit is this gardeners specialty and to have someone come in and take his stuff just as he was about to harvest it himself is utterly despicable. It is certain that this is an internal theft. When the offender is traced he or she will be immediately thrown off the allotments and their name submitted first to the Police and secondly to the city council and every other allotment association in the county to ensure that they never get another plot anywhere else. If anyone has any idea who may be responsible please let a member of the committee know either anonymously or directly. It is completely unacceptable for anyone to enter anyone elses allotment, whether it is occupied or not without the permission of the tenant or one of the three main committee officers. We remind you that removal of anything from anywhere without permission is a direct breach of the tenancy agreement.
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