Welcome to Wingerworth Allotment Cooperative Society  Ltd

Society rent and membership fees 2025-2026

These rents and fees are unchanged for 2025-2026. Plot rent remains 20p/m2. Society membership £6. New members £6 plus a £1 (non returnable) share

A request to help manage the Community Plot X3

Would you be willing to give up a couple of hours alternative Wednesday mornings to help on the Community plot (in front of the shop)? The produced this has been given to food banks or other needy causes. Thanks Helen

Next Board meeting

The next Board meeting is arranged for November. Agenda is posted on the Minutes page.

2025 AGM date

This is a notice of the WACS Ltd AGM for Tuesday 25th March 2025. Venue is the Church Centre, All Saints Church, Wingerworth. Prompt 7pm start, concludes at 9pm. The AGM timeline is below under Important Dates.

STA will be issued on 18th January 2025

18th January 2025: issue of STAs: there are 40 days to pay members fees and plot rent. 27th February 2025, 12pm: last day for rent and fees, and notifying the Secretary of any plot surrenders. Surrender forms to be completed and returned before Bonds are refunded.

Volunteers needed

If you have some spare time to help maintain the site please let the Secretary know. The team of volunteers team usually mow on Wednesdays, and they around to help members most of the week.

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Contacting the Society
If you need to contact the Society for any reason please use the email address:
www. WingerworthAllotment@outlook.com
OR write a letter and post it in the 'small bomb shelter' . This is checked regularly.

In any instance the first point of contact is alway the Secretary. If you wish to raise any issue, query or a question, then email the Secretary . This will set up a paper trail. You may also submit a query for the Board's consideration, three days ahead of their meeting. This will be dealt with under any other business. Do make your query specific and avoid multiple questions. If the response is worth sharing with the membership, it will be either emailed or included in the Newsletter and minutes.

The Board may called a General Meeting, GM if deemed necessary. Members may request a Special General Meeting, SGM, on a specific issue. This must be submitted to the Secretary who will arrange a time and date. Only the issue raised in the letter will be discussed. The letter requesting the SGM must be supported by 5% of the membership. Any business at any type of general meeting requires a 15% quorum and at least two of three elected Board officers being present.

It is not acceptable to go to a third party with issues without notifying the Secretary. Such enquiries which are 'anonymous'  are not helpful or welcome. Such parties have no authority in the Society's proceedings or members issues.



Members only pages 

There two members only pages. One is for minutes, the second is for Members information.To access these pages you must be a member of the Society. This authorises your access. These pages are password protected. We do not give  permission to share these documents with third parties nor enable a thrid party to access these pages.  If you not a member and have accessed any of these pages, please leave. An offence occurs if a person intends to gain unauthorised access and knows that this is the case.
Minutes.
A record of the unapproved Board minutes and GM/AGM. Click on the link. These are published following approval at  an AGM/GM or Board meeting after any amendments. These documents are for members only. Third parties do not have permission to access these documents
Members  Documents
The AGM agenda and papers will available over the forthcoming weeks.  Click on the link  below. This is password protected page (C+gate lock code).Third parties do not have permission to access these documents
Important dates;
 
 Further Board meetings planned for January and March 2025.

Plot rents and membership fees:
19th January 2025: issue of STAs: there are 40 days to pay members fees and plot rent.
28th February 2025 12pm: last day for rent and fees, and notifying the Secretary of any plot surrenders. 
31 days to clear the surrendered plot ready for 31st March ready to be relet on the 1st April 2025. 
Surrender forms to be completed and returned before Bonds are refunded.

AGM 
1st March 2025, Nomination forms issued. 21 days allowed. 
7th March 2025, Last day to submit/accept resolutions for the AGM agenda prior to sending out papers
11th March 2025: required notice to members of AGM. Sending out of papers. 
21st March 2025, 12pm, closing of nominations. 
23rd March Nominations notified to the membership. Nominees sent relevant papers on the duty of a member of Mangement. 
25th March 2025, AGM, 7pm Church Centre.
Wanting to become a member of the Society and rent a plot

If you are interest in having an allotment plot please contact the Secretary. We run a waiting list. However, you are welcome to arrange a visit to look around. Children are welcome and we hope will become garderners as well.
If you like gardening but feel you cannot work a plot, we have a Community Garden which we use to support local food banks.

Wingerworth Allotment Cooperative Society Ltd

The link below will take youto the New Member page for further details and an email link to the Secretary

August 2024 newsletter

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September 2024 newsletter

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June 2024 Newsletter

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NSALG monthly newsletter link

Please use this link to access this months newsletter. There are some copies in the shop for members to take. please log in first


https://www.nsalg.org.uk/members-area/the-allotment-and-leisure-gardener-magazine/
May 2024 Newsletter

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November 2024 newsletter


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 Review of Plot Inspection Procedure 2024

Following the recent comments by a few plot holders regarding the inspection procedure we have considered an alternative approach.

At present an inspection is conducted at the beginning of every month from May to November. Each inspection looks at certain aspects of cultivation, tidiness, borders, rubbish etc. our proposal is to limit the inspection to four per year.

  1. May – Health and Safety inspection.
  2. July – Cultivation and tidiness.
  3. September – Rubbish and borders/Health and Safety inspection
  4. November – Readiness for winter, are things secure and unlikely to blow about in the winds etc.
Additionally, we invite the Chair and Clerk of the Parish Council to visit the site for inspection during May and October. A clause exisits in the Lease about 'cultivation' and 'weeds' etc. This is included in the STAs signed by members.

Although these will  be calendared events, Board members will also be aware of potential issues throughout the year.

Whilst we appreciate this will not suit all members, we have an obligation to keep the allotments in a reasonable state and free from Health and Safety risks, also attached The National Allotment Society Policy Document 108. Cultivation Standards for reference
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NSALG -policy-document-cultivation-standards.pdf

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Health and safety form

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Watson Lane Scoping Document
The proposal is to erect a 2m high v-tech fence along this boundary and fit new gates. Theapplicatiion forfunding ishaltedwhile wewait to seewhen the Parish Council and DDC Highways tackle the trees which haveaTPO 


Improving the social area, X3.
Following the successful  completion of the renovation of X3 and the polytunnel, the proposal is to improve the area in front of the shop. The turf covering the area will be replaced with gravel trays covered in pea gravel. This would provide an easier and accessible area for events.
Social area scoping document

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Members Survey Results.
Members Survey results

This document is a raw score summary

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