Our allotment was one of 81 groups across London which was successful in the recent round of National Lottery Awards announced in the Awards For All Press release on 8 December 2008 under the heading: ‘Community Groups Strike It Rich After Lottery Awards.’ We were the standard bearer for Sutton. As an indication of the measure of our achievement, the list of successful boroughs included few other outer London Boroughs.
‘A lot of Lottery allotted’, the Sutton Guardian on 18 December 2008 reported:
“One of the most sought after allotments in the borough is set to cash in on its success after receiving a £10,000 grant.
“The Stanley Road Allotment and Garden Society have been awarded the money by the National Lottery Awards For All. "
“The money will be spent on a new trading hut, and the society hopes that it will be a strong focus for help and advice as well as a ready source for garden supplies….”
Yesterday (Saturday, 17 January), the Committee met in the new Trading Hut after it was erected the day before, to consider the layout of the new building. The Committee was very pleased at the amount of hard work that has been put in to delivering the project successfully on time.
The next milestone is completion of the fitting out, in time for opening on Saturday 14th February and for the formal opening by the Mayor, Councillor Brendan Hudson on Sunday 15th March at 11 am - two notes for your diaries!
The Committee would like to thank everyone who has volunteered for their offer of help.
There are some photographs of the construction work which we hope will be of interest.
The first slide show of photographs are of the work involved to get the base in position.
The second slide show is of the Trading Hut being erected.
Carl Brown - Site Rep.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BASE FOR THE NEW TRADING HUT
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ERECTING THE NEW TRADING HUT
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