Allotment Development Awards (ADAs)
Read the guidance and watch past application presentations
What are the ADAs?
The Allotment Development Awards help allotment sites improve and sustain both their communities and their environment. They’re also intended to encourage the sharing of knowledge and practice about good food cultivation and communal wellbeing across the city.
Three awards of £500 each are given to an Association in the South, the North East, and the North West to help them move forward with an improvement project.
The awards are decided on the basis of presentations made to an audience of GAF members in August, and the Associations who win the money come back with a report on how they have used it in the following year.
ADAs have been used by associations for a variety of purposes, including to help develop a community space for groups visiting a site, to move work forward the development of a small nature reserve, to provide better access for gardeners with disabilities, and to create a wildlife area and better communal facilities for plotholders.
Who can participate?
Any allotment site within Glasgow City Council boundaries, as long as they operate as a purely voluntary organisation. Last year’s winners are excluded from entry.
Who presented last year?
How does voting work?
You’ll listen to three presentations, and judge them on three criteria:
- Caring for the Earth
- Building Your Association
- Making Local Connections
How do we apply?
If you’d like to apply this year, have a look at this year’s timeline below, read our full proposal guidance (NB: may be subject to changes next year), talk to your committee to work up a plan acceptable to the people on your allotment site, and send your Expression of Interest to the GAF secretary when we open again next year.
Previous applications
For inspiration, have a look at the slides and handouts from 2020’s applicants.
Timeline for 2022
May 2022
Submission period opens for Expressions of Interest
Info session for Q&A on Thu 12th May @ 7pm on Zoom
Fri 29 July
Deadline for Expressions of Interest
Thu 1 September, 7-8:30pm
Proposals are presented (~5 mins each). Audience votes for a winner in each region.
Thu 3 November, 7-8:30pm
Presentation of awards at GAF AGM