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Green Flag Community Award – 20th year!

Dorset Road Allotments is celebrating after receiving a Green Flag Community Award for the 20th year in a row!

The site is one of 2,250 in the UK to achieve the award, which is the international quality mark for parks and green spaces.

The news that Dorset Road Allotments has met the standards required for the accreditation is testament to the hard work and dedication of the team that care for the green space so that visitors and residents alike can enjoy it.

Green Flag Award Scheme Manager, Paul Todd MBE, said: “Congratulations to everyone involved in Dorset Road Allotments who have worked tirelessly to ensure that it achieves the high standards required for the Green Flag Award.

“Quality parks and green spaces like Dorset Road Allotments make the country a heathier place to live and work in, and a stronger place in which to invest.

 “Crucially, Dorset Road Allotments  is a vital green space for communities in the London Borough of Bromley to enjoy nature, and during the ongoing cost of living crisis it is a free and safe space for families to socialise. It also provides important opportunities for local people and visitors to reap the physical and mental health benefits of green space.”

The Green Flag Award scheme, managed by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, recognises and rewards well-managed parks and green spaces, setting the benchmark standard for the management of green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.

The Green Flag Award Scheme is run by the environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, in partnership with Keep Scotland Beautiful, Keep Wales Tidy and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.

A Green Flag Community Award recognises quality sites managed by voluntary and community groups.

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Wildlife Garden – exciting news!

This year we have been working on revamping our wildlife garden with a team of Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award volunteers.  We have also been raising funds to replace the leaky pond liner and build a new – larger – pond dipping platform.

National Lottery grant

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded £16,000 by the National Lottery Awards for All community fund.   £11,500 is to contribute towards the costs of the new pond liner, dipping platform and interpretative signage (the remainder is for new furniture for the Clubhouse).

Aviva Crowdfunder

We have been working with the Aviva Community Fund to crowdfund the remaining  £2,500 we need towards the costs of a new pond liner, dipping platform and hiring a digger to reprofile the shape of the pond (we’ve been advised that it needs shelves!).

Aviva will match fund any donations made – so if you donate £5 they will donate £5.  If you can help please visit our crowdfunder page https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/revamping-the-wildlife-garden

What’s next?

Our volunteers will continue cutting back brambles, pruning hedges, sowing wildflower seeds and painting the bird hide as well as making new wildlife habitats over the coming months.  We hope to have a contractor renovate the pond and build a new pond dipping platform in the autumn.

 

 

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Open Day 2025

We had a fantastic Open Day on Sunday 18th May.

We’d like to thank all our visitors who made the day so special – it was great to meet people who hadn’t visited the site before as well as say hello to our regulars.

A huge thanks go to all our members who helped get the site ready over the last few weeks as well as every who helped out at the Open Day – from playing music, singing, cooking food, running stalls and children’s activities, putting on a demos. It all made for an amazing day.