SUMMER EVENTS IN BOLTON

Association of

BOLTON ALLOTMENT SOCIETIES (ABAS)

 

AUGUST ON THE ALLOTMENTS – OPEN EVENTS AND NATIONAL ALLOTMENTS WEEK

Started twelve years ago, National Allotments Week is an initiative which runs annually to help raise awareness of allotments and the role they play in helping people to live healthier lifestyles, grow their own food, develop friendships and bolster communities.  The National Allotments Society’s annual awareness week will run this year from 3 to 10 August 2014, and events in Bolton will start with Sapling Rd. Allotments Site’s Open Day on August 3^rd and end with the presentation of the ABAS Competition Prizes at Harpers Lane on the 10^th.

However Bolton allotment societies (as part of this awareness raising and also to raise much-needed funds to maintain and improve allotments sites) aim to extend this initiative throughout August with a programme of activities that all the community can join in with.

By opening up our allotment sites and inviting the local community to see what happens behind the gates, our hope is that more people will begin to see the benefits allotments bring and support us in our efforts to protect and improve existing sites. Allotments not only benefit those who garden the plots, from families and school children through to working couples and retired individuals but also provide habitats for wildlife and help to keep towns and cities breathing.

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS ON ALLOTMENTS SITES – AUGUST 2014

August 3rd          SAPLING ROAD                 OPEN DAY (at the allotment site)

August 10^th         HARPERS LANE                  OPEN DAY AND FLOWER & VEGETABLE SHOW

                                                                                (At the allotments site)

includes               ABAS                                     BOROUGH-WIDE ALLOTMENTS COMPETITIONS

                                                                                (Presentation of Prizes by Cllr Bashir-Ismail)

 August 16^th         TONGE FOLD                      VEGETABLE SHOW (At Trinity Methodist)

August 16^th         SHEPHERD CROSS ST.     BARBECUE - (At the allotments site)

August 23^rd         SHEPHERD CROSS ST.     CAR BOOT SALE (At the allotments site)

August 30^TH        MOSS LEA                            OPEN DAY (At the allotments site)

August 30^th         FLORENCE AVENUE         OPEN DAY (At the allotments site)

IF ANY OTHER SITES ARE ORGANISING EVENTS PLEASE LET US KNOW - boltonallotments2014@yahoo.co.uk

 

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