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…
Keep readingRaising the Rents
Raising the Rents Last week (17 Feb), Glasgow City Council approved a proposal to raise the rent for a full size allotment plot from £35 a year to £114 a year. A more than 200% rise in one year! Glasgow Allotments Forum will be holding a public meeting to discuss responses to this decision and…
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Invitation to Discuss New Council Proposals for Your Allotments – 12th January @ 7pm
As mentioned earlier in December, Glasgow City Council is proposing to put forward new draft rules and regulations for allotment sites and a first draft scheme of delegation of management to site Associations in January. A short window of two weeks for consultation with allotments (full timeline at the bottom of the page). It’s crucial that each…
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Funding opportunities update
Glasgow City Council’s food growing team occasionally issue summaries of funding opportunities available to the public. The following is the latest list: UK Government: Community Ownership Fund – apply by 14th December Capital grants of up to £250,000 and revenue grants up to £50,000 are available for UK community organisations to take on the sustainable ownership…
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Timetable for publication of new rules for Glasgow City Council allotments
Glasgow City Council is proposing to put forward new draft rules and regulations for allotment sites and a first draft scheme of delegation of management to site Associations early in the New Year. The timetable we have been given is: Your rents, services, obligations, legal status and future development are all up for discussion and…
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Attend a Key Council Consultation Event: New Rules and Regulations for Allotments and a Scheme of Devolved Allotment Site Management
At last, we are in the position of being able to discuss new rules and regulations rather than having allotment site governance obscured under a set of Rules and Regulations that were issued in 1959 – long since unfit for purpose. There has never been an agreed scheme for devolving management to Associations in Glasgow,…
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2022 New Plotholder Awards Prizegiving
Our New Plotholder Awards were given out by Paul B. Carnon, Deacon of the Incorporation of Gardeners, at Growchapel allotment sites on Saturday 8th October 2022.
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AGM Thu 3 Nov, 7:00-8:45pm @ City Chambers – Open to all of Glasgow’s current (and would-like-to-be) plotholders
We don’t need you to register, but it would be helpful to help us prepare: Agenda Papers
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The Parliament Allotment Enquiry
Many allotment sites in Glasgow have long waiting lists, are concerned about the rules and regulations and have no clear agreement with the Council on Association Committees’ management responsibilities. Make your voice heard by filling in the questionnaire for the Parliament Allotment Inquiry. GAF has submitted our own response, which you can use to help…
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Good Food Hustings – 27 April, 17:30 – 19:00
Hear from council election candidates where they stand on Good Food issues and have the opportunity to ask questions ahead of the 5th May.
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Mini Potato-Day Fire Sale
One last chance to get your hands on some of the stock from this year’s online Potato Day! Head over to the Sir John Stirling Maxwell Allotments this weekend and browse what’s out on the tables. Everything is reduced from original prices. If you prefer to pay online first, put your order through on our…
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FebFest – From Plot to Plate Recipes
Our discussion event on Sunday 20th Feb invited Glasgow plotholders from around the world to share their local recipes. Read them or watch the clips for inspiration!
Keep readingPotato Day (and seed) shop now open
As promised, we’re moving our annual opportunity to buy seed potatoes online again this year. Hopefully next year we’ll be able to return to the usual hall-full-of-stalls event, but at least it’s super easy to place your orders. Place your order nowWe’ll collect the orders and buy everything wholesale from the supplierWe’ll let you know…
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Have your say about how allotments are managed in the future
Glasgow City Council is due to revise how the allotments sites that it lets out to plotholders are to be managed. A GAF working party drawn from 8 GCC sites has been looking at the issues and has put forward a model for the future. Join our final discussion on the draft proposals our GAF…
Keep readingHelp us to keep Potato Day going
We’re looking for volunteers to help out with managing our big annual fundraising event. It’s largely been a one-woman show for the past 10 years, with the fantastic Jan MacDonald running the orders, the logistics, the advertising and the timeline. Lots of volunteers have helped out each year to make the day happen, but Jan…
Keep readingAGM 2021 // 2 December 7 – 8:30pm
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Zoom this year. The AGM is open to everyone who is a plotholder in Glasgow. It receives reports on GAF’s activities and finance and elects officers and members of the committee. If you want to join the committee, or have any resolutions or proposals for actions for…
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Reforming Rules and Regulations for Allotments in Glasgow
Please would you discuss the work we have done (two files, below) with your committee and your members, and get back to us with your views on these important matters. Glasgow City Council’s Food Growing Strategy Action Plan was approved on 8th June 2021. Action 15 in this plan concerns the introduction of a Glasgow…
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