KIDS' PLOT APPLY FOR COMMUNITY AWARD

Community Kids' Allotment have applied for a Duke of York Community Initiative Award. Our application outlines the history of the allotment and our activities during the past 2 years. We have focussed particularly on our links with the local community - of Low Moor Allotments, nearby schools, children in organised holiday activities and the wider York community with our participation in Fulford Show and the York Food Festival. We have also highlighted our commitment to gardening organically and promoting biodiversity, hopefully introducing the gardeners and consumers of tomorrow to the advantages of organic produce and the wider environmental benefitsthat accrue.

Two assessors from the Community Initiative Award will be visiting Low Moor Community Kids' Allotment on Monday 31st October ( 2.30 - 4.30pm). The visit should include " meetings with people involved in the project ( members of the management committee, people working on the project), people benefitting directly from the work of the project and other members of the community". The visit will also enable us to show how the Kids' Plot has developed and to demonstrate the benefits of the project.

If any Low Moor Plotholders would like to show their support for the project and speak to the Assessors, saying hopefully nice things about us (!), and what you feel we have contributed to the Low Moor Community, we would be delighted to arrange a time during the visit. Please get back to me if you would be interested to do this.

Angela Johnson, LMAA Community Kids' Allotment

e-mail : angelajohnson17@hotmail.com