Spring planting – Saturday 8th April 2017

Spring planting
Saturday 8th April
from 10am to 12 noon

Ashenhurst Allotments, entrance between 67 & 69
Ashenhurst Avenue, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6PX

Come and join us for an informal, fun planting session.

Help us to start planting up our community allotment with vegetable seeds this Spring.

Meet other local growers and take a tour of our plot.

You can sit down in our potting shed to sow some seeds, or plant some vegetables out in our plot.

Everyone is welcome. Refreshments provided.

We have space undercover in case it rains!

 

Growing Newsome Community Allotment

 

Allotment Volunteers Open Day – Sunday 12th June 2016

Allotment Volunteers Open Day
Sunday 12th June 2016
From 10am to 12 noon

Growing Newsome Community Allotment
entrance between 67 & 69 Ashenhurst Avenue, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6PX

Can you spare an hour or two? We’re looking for new volunteers to join us at our community allotment. From sitting down sowing some seeds in our potting shed to doing some digging or helping with DIY tasks, there’s something to suit everyone. It’s a great way to learn and to meet people, or just to spend some quiet time outdoors.

If you’re interested in helping out, please come along to our Sunday morning gathering to celebrate Volunteers Week 2016. You can have a look around, join in some practical allotment activities to give it a try, ask questions, and meet other local growers.

Refreshments are provided and we have space under cover in case it rains.

For more information contact Diane at growingnewsome@gmail.com

Find out more about our Community Allotment

Print our poster:
Allotment Volunteers Open Day poster (PDF)

 

Spring planting – Saturday 16th April 2016

Spring planting
Saturday 16th April
from 10am to 12 noon

Ashenhurst Allotments, entrance between 67 & 69
Ashenhurst Avenue, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6PX

Come and join us for an informal, fun planting session.

Help us to start planting up our community allotment with vegetable seeds this Spring.

You can meet other local growers and take a tour of our plot.

Everyone welcome. Refreshments provided.

We have space undercover in case it rains!

 

Growing Newsome Community Allotment

Simon Gregson (Steve McDonald in Coronation Street) visits the Growing Newsome Community Allotment – media roundup

Thank you very much to Simon Gregson for visiting our community allotment on Tuesday 28th July 2015. He came to see how we’ve spent our Lottery funding to make our community allotment easier for our volunteers to look after. We were also celebrating reaching the Finals of the National Lottery Awards – a huge achievement for our little bunch of food growers. Have a look at our Growing for All Seasons page for more details about our lottery-funded project.

Our thanks to Vicci Moyles from the National Lottery Promotions Unit for organising Simon’s visit, and to all the press and media who turned out on a rainy Tuesday morning to help share our story. For those who have lost track of our mini media frenzy, here’s a roundup of all the links so that you can listen, watch and read again.
 

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ITV Calendar

ITV Calendar filming at our allotment

Watch ITV Calendar again:

Corrie favourite gets green fingers in support of allotments
 

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BBC Radio Leeds

Radio Leeds at our allotment

Listen again to BBC Radio Leeds:

Simon Gregson visits Growing Newsome

Video clip from BBC Radio Leeds:

Corrie star Steve McDonald – aka actor Simon Gregson – with Diane Sims from the Growing Newsome Community Allotment project.
 

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Pulse Radio

Pulse Radio at our allotment

Listen again to Pulse Radio:

Steve McDonald from Coronation Street in Huddersfield

 

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Huddersfield Examiner

Coronation Street’s Steve McDonald actor Simon Gregson gets green-fingered at Growing Newsome to help them win National Lottery public vote

Gallery – Coronation Street Steve McDonald actor Simon Gregson at Growing Newsome

 

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Horticulture Week

Coronation Street star promotes lottery awards at allotment project
 

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Soaplife magazine

 

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Twitter selection

Simon Gregson swapped the Rovers Return for an allotment, supporting Growing Newsome for the #NLAwards pic.twitter.com/6eK27RWkYL

— The National Lottery (@TNLUK) July 29, 2015

Great meeting the lovely people at @GrowingNewsome today I wonder who will win at the #NLAwards

— simon gregson (@simongregson123) July 28, 2015

Nice to chat with @simongregson123 @GrowingNewsome today. It'll be on @Pulse2Radio Breakfast tomorrow… pic.twitter.com/F3GYX4qHGV

— Chris Johnson (@blokeonradio) July 28, 2015

Soapstar @simongregson123 mucks in with @GrowingNewsome – hear why from 6am, Wed @BBCLeeds @RichardStead pic.twitter.com/d23nPJC3dR

— Charles Heslett (@CharlesHeslett) July 28, 2015

@GrowingNewsome What makes a good runner bean? @itvcorrie 's @simongregson123 knows-& talked about @TNLUK grants: http://t.co/gLijiFthPp

— Helen Steel (@HelenSteelITV) July 29, 2015

https://twitter.com/chloegexaminer/status/626708747679830016

Couldn't have said it better! Thanks @simongregson123 Voting in the #NLAwards closes at 23:59pm! GET VOTING! @TNLUK https://t.co/oIKMJ35xZB

— National Lottery Good Causes (@LottoGoodCauses) July 29, 2015

A huge thank you to everyone who supported us during the #NLAwards. Good luck to all the Finalists. And now, tea… pic.twitter.com/AOFndMDfwY

— Growing Newsome (@GrowingNewsome) July 29, 2015

 

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Facebook selection

 

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Our photo gallery

Thank you very much to the National Lottery Promotions Unit for arranging for photographer Mark to come along and record the day’s events for us. You can see his great photos in our gallery:

Simon Gregson at our allotment – Flickr gallery

Growing for All Seasons

Growing for All Seasons is our National Lottery funded project to help each other grow food throughout the year, and throughout our lives.

We were awarded £7,967 of National Lottery funding through Awards for All. We have used the funds to improve the facilities at our community allotment so that it’s easier for our growers to look after. We have a new potting shed where we can sit down to sow seeds and do some potting on, and we have more raised beds that need less digging.

We have also helped our fantastic volunteers to gain confidence by providing training opportunities, including Level 2 food hygiene training and a one day fruit pruning course.

Together, the eight members of our Growing Group (who run the project) and a further two dozen fantastic volunteers are supporting our whole community with food growing – and lots more. We build and strengthen relationships between people through food. Between us, we have everything we need.

Growing Newsome is special because of the way that it encourages people to support each other. It’s difficult to put into words how inspiring I find this group of bolshy, down-to-earth gardeners who just get on and do things and take care of each other while they’re doing it. Their generosity and enthusiasm for life is both infectious and humbling.

We are proud to be Finalists in the 2015 National Lottery Awards. Please show your support for this amazing little bunch of food growers, whose impact on our community (and on me) has been huge.

Diane

Growing Newsome Co-ordinator