Please click on the image for your copy of the minutes from the 2026 AGM.
This is a fairly long read; however, we hope it gives all allotment tenants a clear picture of the high level of activity carried out on your behalf since the 2025 AGM. We would also like to extend a special thank you to Wendy Wilkinson, our fantastic Secretary, for capturing such a comprehensive record of the meeting for these minutes.
So, grab a coffee or perhaps a glass of wine, and enjoy the read.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reply to this email.
A big thank you to all who came to this year’s AGM last Thursday evening.
As mentioned at the meeting, we have produced a PDF copy of the presentations which you can access by clicking on the image below. The minutes of the meeting will be published soon.
Please don’t forget it’s our WATA AGM on Thursday 26th March at the Oakwood Centre in Woodley, starting at 7.30pm.
Please find links to the 2026 Agenda, Minutes of AGM 2025, the current WATA Constitution, the WTC 2026 Tenancy Agreement and the WTC 2026 Plot Inspection Policy
Please note, there will be Tea/Coffee/Biscuits available before and during the AGM.
Committee Elections In accordance with the WATA Constitution (9th February 2022), elections will be held for non-office bearer Committee members. The Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer elected at the 2025 AGM do not need to stand for re-election. The four current non-office bearer members will stand for re-election.
Any WATA member (as defined in Para 1b of the Constitution) may stand as a non-office bearer Committee member. Nominations must be submitted in writing to the Secretary (secretary@woodley-allotments.org.uk), including a proposer and seconder, by Thursday 26th February 2026 (4 weeks before the AGM).
Nominees must attend the AGM and will have the opportunity to speak before the election. Voting will take place at the AGM by ballot or show of hands.
AGM Agenda A full agenda will be issued nearer the date. Motions or business for inclusion must be submitted in writing to the Secretary by Thursday 26th February 2026.
No more Bonfires on the Plots – Please don’t forget that the ability to have a bonfire on your plot ended on April 30th. No more Bonfires until October 1st, 2025.
Trees on the Allotment Site – Until further notice, please do not cut down any tress on your plot or anywhere else on the Allotment Site. The Committee in conjunction with Woodley Town Council (WTC) will be carrying out an audit of all the trees on the Allotment Site.
Use of Hose Pipes – There have several of reports of tenants using hoses to obtain water from water tanks for their plots. Paragraph 4.18 of the current Tenancy Agreement prohibits this activity; offenders could have their Tenancy terminated.
AGM 2025 Minutes – These are now available, you can download a full PDF copy if you require by simply clicking on the image below.
Summary of Associations Committee meeting – 14th April 2025 – The new Committee have decided that all Tenants should be aware of the various discussions that the Committee is having and as with the recent WATA/WTC meeting, we will be publishing these as soon as we can after our meetings. This one is a bit late due to some logistic and IT (now resolved) issues. You can download a PDF copy if you require by simply clicking on the image below.
If you have any questions about the subjects of either the Committee or the WATA/WTC meetings, then please let us know by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post – ‘Leave a Reply‘- or by emailing readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk and we will get back to you with a response.
Finally, we continue to build up our revised Mailing List, if you have not already joined it, you can opt-in here.
As many of you will know, we held our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on March 27th. The minutes have been collated and will be published shortly. The new Committee also recently met with Woodley Town Council (WTC), raising a number of points discussed at the AGM and some other historical items.
A ‘short’ version of the WTC/WATA committee meeting minutes can be seen below, you can also download a copy as a PDF, if you click on the image below.
We encourage any comments/feedback that you have about this meeting by using the ‘Leave a Reply‘ function at the end of this post. Also, if there is a subject that we should have discussed, or you would like us to being to WTC’s attention, then please also let us know using the same process.
As we get going as a new Committee, we would like to thank all previous Committee members for their service and, as was mentioned at the AGM, give a special thanks to Sara Jackson for being Chair over the past few years.
Lastly, as mentioned at the AGM we are in the process of rebuilding our mailing list, which you can join by clicking on Opt-In and completing the form on that page. We have also come across a list of people that asked to join the mailing list in 2024, we will begin to add those to the mailing list over the coming days.
Don’t forget that the 2023 AGM will be held in the Carnival Hall at the Oakwood Centre, Woodley next Monday, 27th March at 7.30pm. We look forward to welcoming you all to a busy agenda, including voting in a new Committee.
With the above in mind, please click on either of the two images below to download the minutes from the 2022 AGM and the current Agenda for the 2023 AGM.
We have just published our February 2023 Newsletter, along with Special Bulletin 87 – Memorial Garden and Special Bulletin – AGM 2023 AGENDA
We still continue to hand-deliver paper copies to plot holders who do not have an Internet connection(a little late this month), as well as posting on the Official Facebook Group page and on the Notice Board by the main gate.
We encourage all tenants to ‘Opt-In‘ to our mailing list to receive their copies of the Monthly Newsletter and other publications by email.
You can download your copy of the March Newsletter and Special Bulletins by clinking on the relevant images below.
