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400% Rent Hike – Petition Your People!
Attached is a petition and signature page which GAF is supporting to get A Fair Deal for a Fair Rent. As with any petition, the number of Glasgow-based signatures is key! We are currently required to gather hard copies of signatures of support. We are asking for your help in collecting signatures for this cause in your area. Forms…
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Allotment 400% price hike featured on STV news
GAF rep Maureen McKendrick (Budhill and Springboig Allotment Association) was interviewed for STV News about the recent price hike.
Keep readingGAF Waiting List Survey
We are asking you to complete this survey because the City Council is going to have to establish a central waiting list for allotments covering all your sites. We think that we need to do everything we can to make sure that sites end up with a system that fits the needs of their associations…
Keep readingGlasgow’s Consultation on New Allotment Regulations and Delegation of Management
Some of you have written into us enquiring about what is happening about the consultation process we outlined earlier in the year. Whilst there has been no official communication with us, we have reason to believe that the original timeline and sequence of events will be altered. As far as we know, the Food Growing…
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Free tree training courses!
Field Studies Council on the ‘Trees for Climate Action’ project they are running across the Glasgow Region. As part of this project they will be running free tree training courses and distributing free tree guides for residents of Glasgow, to register and learn more about these opportunities, see the links in the forwarded email below. Can you tell the…
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Potato Day Shop open
Orders have already been rolling in, so grab your seed potatoes, your fruit & veg seeds, your onions, shallots and garlic, and your compost and planter bags while they last! Everything we sell is at close-to-wholesale prices, and any small surplus goes right back into GAF grants that you can apply for as Allotment Development…
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