Celebrate National Allotment Week With Us

Posted on: 12 Aug 24

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From Monday 12th through to Sunday 18th August 2024, we will be celebrating National Allotment Week and encouraging all our tenants to spend time in their gardens, be they private or shared, and have a go at growing their own vegetables and flowers.

Organised by the National Allotment Society Initiative, National Allotment Week is an annual event that has been running for over two decades now. This year’s theme is biodiversity, and there will be plenty of content during the week on ways to encourage pollinators and wildlife into your allotment.

Designed to encourage allotment holders to show off their sites and to highlight the many benefits of allotments, the week promises to be a lot of fun and very rewarding. Benefits of allotments include a boost to communities, your health and to the environment.

Nehemiah Wants Everyone To Get Involved

It’s important to come together this August to grow your own vegetables and flowers on an allotment – we have advice on finding local allotments, further down this page.

Many of our retirement schemes have gardens where tenants have been growing their own vegetables and flowers, including:

Henry Court in Dudley
Charles Pearson in West Bromwich
Woodside House in Birmingham

Residents at Henry Court in their garden

Dammy and her husband Mohan enjoy tending the communal garden and greenhouse, together with their neighbours Esmie and Marie from Henry Court retirement scheme. Read about what they have been up to in our latest newsletter .

Benefits of Allotment Gardening

There are many benefits to holding an allotment, for individuals and communities alike.

Benefits include:

Growing your own organic fruit and vegetables
Growing your own flowers
Time spent outdoors
Healthy pastime
Opportunities to socialise and make friends
Helps to bring the community together
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Do You Want To Rent A Local Allotment?

To rent an allotment in your local area, try the following websites:

Nehemiah Is Here To Help

We’d love you to get involved in any way you can during National Allotment Week in August, so get in touch with us to find out if your scheme has a communal garden as well as what activities your housing scheme will be running during this week and further information on renting an allotment in your local area.

You can contact your Housing Officer, or call us on 0121 358 0966 or email contact@nehemiah.co.uk, and we will do all we can to assist you.