Community Allotment (B6)

This community allotment has now been provided with funding and our initial partners have been contacted.

This page will keep a record of the allotments progress.

In the meantime, it already has an Instagram page which is..... https://www.instagram.com/beighton_community_allotment/?hl=en

Hi! My name is Sarah.

It’s a great pleasure to have planted the very first seed to create a community allotment garden on Orchard Lane Allotments in Beighton, Sheffield (S20 1EX).

There’s a long way to go, but with the help of fabulous volunteers and support from the National Garden Scheme and Beighton Village Development Trust, plus local businesses who will be praised shortly, we can help this amazing project to grow. We are welcoming volunteers and sponsors to help develop the community garden, so if you would like to get involved please do get in touch.

Thank you for your support.

Do you have any gardening rakes, forks, spades, wheelbarrows or equipment that you could donate to our Community Allotment?

PLEASE DROP THESE IN TO OUR ALLOTMENT SHOP OVER THE WEEKEND between 10am and 12pm (or message us for alternative).

Week commencing Monday 10th June we are pleased to welcome volunteers from The Prince’s Trust to begin work on the Community Allotment, but we need your help to supply us with tools and equipment if possible. All donations gratefully received.

Thank you for your support.

Below is a photo galery of the progress we have made so far......

B6 Before Work Started

When B6 was given up due to ill health of the previous tennent, it was decided that B6 should be a community plot for everyone on site and the wide community to enjoy. Sarah Vause (committee member) was given the remit to find funding and develop this plot into a low maintainance community area.

Initial Clearance

The greenhouse was disassembled and taken away

Initial Clearance

The weeds and pathways were removed

Initial Clearance

Final clearance was started

We would like to thank the following businesses and organisations for their support in the development of the Beighton Allotments Community Garden....

Community Payback Scheme

This gives low level offenders with community service court orders the chance to use their skills to work on community projects like our B6 Community garden. This group, led by Mark, are often professional tradesmen & women and they have done some of the more complex work on site such as the block paving and raised beds. Even better, this group brings the funding for the raw materials they are working with! A big thank you to all of them.

The Asda Foundation

ASDA have made a contribution of £2,600 which will allow us to buy a wide range of fruit & vegetable plants including espalier fruit trees (and the supports for them). This will allow the volunteers to now completely fill the raised beds in the 2025 gardening season.

Burton Street Foundation

The Burton Street Foundation is a group founded to support people with all forms of disability and the local branch is based at the Lifestyle Centre in Beighton. They regularly bring volunteers to our community garden and will be heavily involved in planting up the polytunnel and raised planters.

Beighton Allotments Committee

A special thank you goes to all the members of the BAA Committee who have given up a huge amount of their personal time to help out with activities such as inserting the base and erecting the shed, erecting the polytunnel and many of the smaller details that is making the B6 community garden such a success. A special thanks to Alan Fergus and Richard Longden in this regard who have always been on hand when required.

Beighton Allotement Members

Alan and Richard are not the only ones who have also helped out improving the B6 community garden. Many other plot holders have also given their time and expertise when specific tasks have been advertised asking for help.

Sarah Vause

The Trustees and everyone involved in the B6 Community garden would also like to thank Sarah Vause. Sarah has been the one to drive this project forward from the initial idea behind making a community garden when the plot became available, through to applying for the grants to fund the hard landscaping required, and then to giving her time freely to support all the volunteer groups who have been pivotal in making the project a success.

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