Author : Scott Ramsay

The skip is now expected this Thursday, 12th August

The supplier has sent apologies for rearranging it twice now, putting it down to driver shortages. We’ll keep the information (including expected arrival time) here up-to-date, as well as on the website, and the gate noticeboard.

We’ll need to get the skip off-site again quickly in case there are more delays getting it taken away, since we’ll need the lane as clear as possible for Open Day next weekend. It usually fills up within a day anyway, so best be quick! We’ll have someone on hand to supervise, and priority goes to new plotholders / transfers who might be getting rid of rubble they didn’t create, so bear with us.

Examples of allowable materials:

• Site rubble
• Bricks
• Glass
• Wood
• Plastic
• Broken tools
• Worn netting

Exclusions (some of these are prohibited by the skip supplier and may result in a site fine):

• Weeds and soils
• Metal (we have a separate scrap metal uplift service)
• Gas canisters
• Petrol
• Acids
• Solvents (e.g. paint stripper)
• Tyres (rubber)
• Asbestos (should be none on site)
• Paint

Now that we’re back in level 2, we’re able to go ahead with small one-off events in venues again. Separately from socialising restrictions, level 2 allows small events of up to 100 people seated at a distance of 1m (or the capacity of the space – whichever is reached first). See the ‘Stadia & events’ section at the level 2 guidance pages for more information.

All members are requested to attend.

Only members (i.e. the plotholder who signed the membership agreement for your plot when you joined) will be allowed into the pavilion, to avoid overcrowding.

The Agenda will be as follows:

1. Chair – Opening Remarks
2. Secretary – Reports
3. Treasurer – Annual Reports
4. Auditors’ Reports
5. Minutes of 2019 AGM
6. Resolutions
   • Rent increase
   • Toilet cleaning proposals
   • Communal area upkeep
7. Election of office bearers and committee members, including groundsperson
8. Any other business

If anyone would like to include any other resolution, please do so in writing, to the secretary.

Please note that probationary members cannot be elected to sit on committee in their first year. They will still be allowed a vote.

Meetings usually last approx two hours.

A copy of our constitution and rules can be printed off from our Documents page.

We hope to see you there!

The AGM has now been changed to Sunday 23rd May at 2.30 PM delayed until Glasgow is allowed to move out of level 3 restrictions. Separately from socialising restrictions, level 2 allows small events of up to 100 people seated at a distance of 1m (or the capacity of the space – whichever is reached first). See the ‘Stadia & events’ section at the level 2 guidance pages for more information.

We’ll post more as soon as we can set a new date!

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All members are requested to attend.

Only members (i.e. the plotholder who signed the membership agreement for your plot when you joined) will be allowed into the pavilion, to avoid overcrowding.

The Agenda will be as follows:

1. Chair – Opening Remarks
2. Secretary – Reports
3. Treasurer – Annual Reports
4. Auditors’ Reports
5. Minutes of 2019 AGM
6. Resolutions
   • Rent increase
   • Toilet cleaning proposals
   • Communal area upkeep
7. Election of office bearers and committee members, including groundsperson
8. Any other business

If anyone would like to include any other resolution, please do so in writing, to the secretary.

Please note that probationary members cannot be elected to sit on committee in their first year. They will still be allowed a vote.

Meetings usually last approx two hours.

A copy of our constitution and rules can be printed off from our Documents page.

We hope to see you there!

Rent season is open! Rates haven’t changed – it’s still £25 per plot (unless you have a smaller plot and you usually pay £20). Any rents not paid by the start of the AGM will incur a late fee.

I have to present a financial report at the AGM, so if possible, clearing your rent by the end of April will help make the report as complete as it can be. The AGM will be on Sunday 9 May. Any rents not paid 14 days after the AGM will be deemed a vacation of the plot.

Payment options

• Bank transfer (include your plot number in the reference; same account details as last year; email me if you need the details)
• Cheque (please make payable to Sir John Stirling Maxwell Allotment Gardens)
• Cash

Pavilion dates

I’ll be at the pavilion with the receipt books on the second and fourth Sundays of April:

• Sunday 11 April 12 – 2pm
• Sunday 25 April 1 – 3pm
• I can arrange to meet people at other times if those don’t suit – just email me, say hi on Facebook Messenger or try me at my plot – #38 with the green-framed greenhouse and the green & brown shed.

If you’ve got any questions, just let us know!

– Scott, Treasurer

Our secretary sent a question to BBC Breakfast this morning while Michael Gove was taking questions, and we’ve had an answer:

Getting exercise is important at a time like this and we know what a positive impact keeping up a plot has for so many of our members.

If you’ve been at the plots since yesterday, you’ll have seen the posters we’ve posted at the gate and on the toilet doors with advice and some new restrictions on the way we use the plots that will help us to keep everyone safe and comply with government requirements.

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The Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Science Adviser to the government have been consistent with the message that the best way to prevent the spread of the virus is to wash your hands (along with distancing). For this reason, as we’re one of the few sites in Glasgow with the luxury of handwashing facilities, we’ve decided to keep the water supply running to the site. We’ve also had additional hand sanitiser in the toilet areas since yesterday.

There are disposable gloves next to the handwashing sinks, so please take one of these if you need to draw water from the path taps. We’ll also try to leave a supply of gloves at the taps themselves. Please use these rather than your gardening gloves, which you might have touched your face with or coughed into without noticing. Disposable gloves can be put into the toilet bins as you leave.

As you’ll see from the signs, we’re restricting use of both toilet areas to one person at a time so that everyone can keep the recommended distance from each other – 2 metres / 6 and a half feet.

We’ll keep monitoring the situation and keep everyone updated as and when anything changes. We’ll also post these announcements on our Facebook page, the notice board inside the gate, and by email where it seems necessary.

Stay safe, and enjoy your plot!