#SignForVictory - Will yours be next?

 

Using our experience in campaigning for Farm Terrace, we have decided to launch a larger campaign to Save All Allotments across Britain. Our goal is to tighten the law  protecting allotments.

One of the things we discovered while going through our case was the disturbing information we found in our freedom of information request that showed that between 2007 and 2014, a total of 194 out of 198 applications to close allotments were granted by the Secretary of State (SOS). 

In view of this we realised that this process of taking protected land to meet property developer’s appetites is occurring across the UK and we

were soon approached by other allotments facing/who had faced a similar fate. We then decided that a large, national petition was needed to help protect England's historic allotment sites. We set the following petition up and we recieved over 6,000 signatures in the forst few days. We have now passed 13,000 signatures but we still have a long way to go. We desperatly need to get the petition and the reason why it is needed, spread to everyone up and down the country but particularly to other allotment sites, who may not have heard what is happening and that they too may be at risk.

 

Petition link -

 

change.org/SaveOurAllotments

 

 

We are therefore running a ‘Sign for Victory’ campaign and are simply asking people to place a poster on their shed or allotment and take a selfie and share it with us on our facebook or twitter sitesto to show that the people of UK respect and want to protect their allotments that have provided protection for the country in times of need.

 

The poster link is http://tinyurl.com/orcfv27

 

or you can send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Save Our Allotments

 

C/O Evolve, 77 Vicarage Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 0EJ and we will send you a poster.

 

Allotments have been vital to UK communities and have been key in feeding the population in historical times of crisis. They provide physical and emotional care of the citizens and the national removal of this resource would be an act of vandalism that future generations will judge the present on. Green spaces and allotments are the lungs of a community and nestled in between residential areas ensure that young people have the chance to experience food growth and natural development in a world becoming more distant from the natural process. Allotments need YOU!

Remember you only need to download the poster and place it on your shed, garden area or allotment and take a picture of yourself to show you support saving allotments.

And of course sign the petition!

Any help you can provide will ensure this issue is front and centre of political discussion where it must be to save the allotments we are custodians of.