Allotment

Good Gifts!

Our Community Allotment has been extremely lucky to have been a chosen charity for the Good Gifts Guide for over a decade.

If you're unaware of it, the Good Gifts Catalogue (https://www.goodgifts.org/) was born nearly 20 years ago, a refreshing alternative to conventional unwanted presents. The organisation led by Dame Hilary Blume, was guided by two commitments: first, that every Good Gift was always wanted. And second, when you buy a Good Gift, your money buys the actual gift.

Over the 20 years, those commitments have never wavered. In fact, more and more people choose Good Gifts in order to target their charitable giving with more accuracy and give gifts that won't add to the burden on recycling and landfill in the UK and around the world.

Our listing in the online catalogue can be found if you search for 'allotment for the homeless' and then follow the instructions to make the donation. All the donations are then processed by the GGG and sent to us in an annual cheque. The donation funds our general running of our community allotment, especially for tools and equipment.

https://www.goodgifts.org/allotment-for-the-homeless

Thanks to the GGG donations, we have been able to provide designated tool sets as part of our Covid safety practices. This has been really popular with group members as they now have ownership of their own tools.

Thanks to Dame Hilary Blume for your continued support.

If you would like to help us with a GGG donation we would be extremely grateful - https://www.goodgifts.org/allotment-for-the-homeless

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