Seasons Greetings & Appeal for Volunteers

A message From Mavis and the Committee

We hope that you all had a
Very Merry Christmas

(hope you enjoyed all your home grown vegetables!)

and

Good Wishes for a good gardening year for 2009

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Actually - "Stanley Road Allotment & Garden Society NEEDS YOU"

How would YOU

like to help with the preparation of the new Trading Hut,

which is due to open on 14 February 2009?

Do you have any DIY skills?

(No need for modesty)

If the answer to any of these questions is yes

or,

if you can spare about 2 hours every 6 weeks or so to help out in the new Shop, either on a Saturday or Sunday morning, please contact Nigel.

With your help we can build on the success we have achieved in securing the lottery award and transform this allotment into one in which we can all take pride.

Lottery Funding News at last !!!!

http://www.awardsforall.org.uk/

For the second time this year, the Stanley Road Allotment Society has cause for celebration. This time, it is because the Society has just been awarded a £10,000 grant from the National Lottery, “Awards For All”, to provide a new Trading Hut. The chairman, Mavis Peart said: “We are all absolutely delighted and I am very grateful for all the hard work that the Committee put into making the bid.”
Commenting on the award, Carl Brown, the Site Representative, said that Stanley Road is one of the most improved, and certainly, one of the most sought after allotments in the Borough with demand for new plots exceeding supply, resulting in a substantial waiting list. He believes that the grant for the new Trading Hut is a recognition of our success in transforming the allotment to become a valuable community resource.
We are all looking forward to the new Trading Hut when it opens in the spring. It is a great opportunity. The Society hopes that it will be a strong focus for help and advice as well as a ready source for garden supplies. It will be the centre of an allotment community that is inclusive, reflecting a diverse mix of nationalities, cultures, ages and gender. The allotment is proud of its links with Stanley Park Junior School and Orchard Hill College both of whom have plots on site. “Our hopes are high, thanks to a successful lottery bid”, concluded the chairman.

Mavis Peart - Chairman
Carl Brown – Site Rep

Christmas Cheer!

~ Do come and join us ~

We thought that it would be lovely to all meet up for a Christmas drink (or two) this year

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We will be in The Greyhound Hotel (Opposite Carshalton Ponds)

on

Friday 5th December from 7.30pm

It will be great to see you all - Ho! Ho!Ho!!

Get your SPUDS ordered NOW!!

Seed Potato Orders can be made at the Shop this weekend.

ONLY 80p PER KILO - Yes ONLY 80p PER KILO!!

First Early
ACCENT
ARRAN PILOT
PENTLAND JAVELIN
ROCKET
VALES EMERALD

Second Early
CHARLOTTE
KESTREL
NICOLA


Maincrop
CARA
DESIREE
PICASSO


ORDER FORMS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE SHOP

~For more information from the British Potato Council - click here ~

Bird Feeders - on sale now

The Trading Hut has a good selection of

Bird Feeders and food for birds - nuts, seeds & fat balls.

Seed feeder + 500 gram of feed £1.75 6 in stock

Peanut feeder + 500 gram of nuts £2.75 6 in stock

Fatball Feeder + packet of Fatballs. £2.25 4 in stock

Premium Bird Seed 60p for 500g
Peanuts 70p for 500g

Small Fatballs 85p for a packet of 6

The RSPB has produced this very informative web page on feeding birds - please click here

Onion Sets & Garlic ON SALE NOW

THE TRADING HUT - OPEN SUNDAY MORNINGS

9.45am TO 11.45am

&

1st Saturday of every month - 10am to 11am

Onion Sets are now in stock

Overwintering Varieties

All priced at 40 sets for £1.50

Radar

Electric (Red)

Japanese (Yellow) limited stock

Garlic will be available from 1st October

All Garlic is sold by the bulb/head apart from the Elephant which is sold by cloves

Solent Wight

Albigensian Wight

Mediterranean Wight

Purple Heritage Moldovan

Elephant Garlic

SEED POTATOES WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE SOON SO RE-VISIT THE BLOG SOON FOR THE TRADING HUT'S COMPETITIVE PRICES!

The Trading Hut Project - 2008

(1) 7'2" to eaves - higher spec as standard

(2) Fibre cement roofing sheets

(3) Heavy duty welded trusses

(4) Real durite used - no inferior imitations

(5) 7'2" height x 1' or 2' wide x 3" thick, our reinforced concrete panels can achieve just about any custom design

(6) Choice of UPVC or Redwood fascias

Overall size - 34ft 6inches (12 metres) long x 18ft 6 inches (6 metres wide)

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SRAGS major project for 2008 is to secure Lottery Funding for the building of a new Trading Hut.

The existing Trading Hut is now too small, what with growing demands and a much increased membership - it has become "outgrown!"

The costing has been agreed and after much hard work finalising the lottery bid, an application was made to Awards For All last Friday for funding. We now await their decision which should take about 8 weeks

COME BACK SOON

to find out!