What's On

New Projects for 2023

A new wildlife pond has been created at the bottom of the allotment site. This year we will be landscaping the area and adding plants to the pond. We already have resident frogs and a newt!

A woodland walk has been created and will be further enhanced this year along with the addition of 11 hives in our apiary enclosure. NB: the products collected from the bees are sold in our shop.

We are committed to encouraging wildlife onto the allotment site. Besides the bug hotels at the bottom of the site, we would like to entice other creatures such as hedgehogs. We are placing ‘hog houses’ around the site along with mason bee homes. If you consider using slug pellets, could we please encourage you to pay just a little extra and buy organic slug pellets as the chemicals found in the normal pellets are considered to be very harmful to hogs. Organic pellets are sold in the shop.

We are delighted to be playing our part in the Winshill in Bloom competition in July of this year. This will also be our second year entering our site under the RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme. In July 2022 we achieved a Level 5 ‘outstanding award’ which was the highest accolade possible.

This year will see us commence on our biggest project to date which is to build a community gardening area with raised beds and greenhouses along with a large community meeting place that can be used by groups outside of the allotment site.


We have recently received a grant from the Winshill Parish Council that will enable us to repair some of the roads around the site.


We will also continue to provide any surplus produce from members plot’s to Winshill Neighbourhood Resource Centre who use this to cater for local residents.

Spring Cleaning

To help keep the site looking its best, can we ask that you take a good look at your allotment plot and dispose of any rubbish that you are not using, items such as scrap metal, plastics, broken glass, old tools and general rubbish. This will go a long way to making the whole area look much better.

Shop

The shop has re-opened for the season and will be open every Saturday throughout March, April, May and June. 10am – 11.30am. The shop is open as normal although email requests for pick-ups outside of the opening times can be sent to the Winshill Allotment email address: winshillallotments@outlook.com

Mulch

There are two mulch areas – at the bottom of the site and next to plot 11. Please help yourself to this for your plots.