A convivial review of our 100th anniversary year was held at our Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) on Sunday 24 April in the Trading Hut. Although the numbers were lower than last year’s AGM, a goodly number of members attended which was sufficient for our recently-lowered quorum, so my Golden Retriever, Holly, wasn’t required to make […]
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The CHAS is doing a project with the London Wildlife Trusts Gunnersbury Triangle reserve to demonstrate how you can garden for pollinators in a very small space. We’re providing plants for two planters which will be installed at the entrance to the reserve in May. Fran Goloway & I have been hard at work researching
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The New Year sees two stalwart members of the committee standing down. Andrew Steele, our Allotments Secretary for many years, is now passing on the baton to Dennis Flaherty, who has kindly agreed to step up to the plate (if you’ll excuse my American baseball expression) to take over that role in the coming year.
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When our society was formed in 1915, England was experiencing food shortages. The term allotment was new. Local councils in towns and cities had to find space for allotments and also encourage townies to grow vegetables. It seemed appropriate in its centenary year, that CHAS should use its charitable objectives to extend a special encouragement
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CHAS had a quiz night on Saturday, and it was, as ever, a hard fought but good humoured contest. I tried to test everyone with questions on a wide range of topics – from UK citizenship to comedy and gardening, art to twentieth century history, prizes & awards and music. An impressively high level of
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