Please find below information about a Community BBQ and a Best Plot Competition.
Click on each Image to download a copy of the PDF for your own copy.
Community BBQ and Best Plot Competition
Reply
WTC and WATA Committee Meeting Bullet Points 9th June 2025
Please find below Bullet Points from our latest meeting with Woodley Town Council. Simply click on the image below if you would like a PDF to download and read offline.
General Meeting – 23rd June 2025
As we have mentioned previously, we want to start having regular meetings on various topics with guest speakers, the first one is going to be held on Monday 23rd June.
Further meetings will cover subjects such as Bee Keeping, the advance of Yellow-Legged Asian Hornet across the UK & No-Dig to name a few. Let us know if you can think of a subject that we should cover.
So that we can get an idea of numbers, please let us know if you are attending by replying to this post. You can download a PDF copy of the agenda by clicking in the image below. See you there.
Coffee Ground in the Garden/Allotment
We currently have access to a regular free supply of used Coffee Grounds available for delivery, small bags only.
If you are interested in having some, please drop an email to readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk with your name and plot number and next time we have some, we’ll drop a couple of bags off at your plot.
Click on the image below to find out more about using Coffee Grounds with your plants.
New Images from Tenants
Check out these images from one of the tenants on Row B. Click on each images to see high-res image in our Picture Galley page.
Do you have some images you would like to see in our Picture Gallery, then send them to readingroadplots@woodely-allotments.org.uk and we will upload them for you.
We have just published our revised 2025 Welcome Pack
This contains a lot of handy hints and tips for those taking on an allotment for the first time. There is also a section at the back that deals with Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria? which expands on what is in the Tenancy Agreement that we all signed at the beginning of 2025 and will hopefully explain what is behind the Plot Inspection thinking.
Please click on the image below to obtain your own PDF copy of the 2025 Welcome Pack.
Many thanks
The WATA Committee
WATA Site – Fruit Foraging/Picking Map
As the summer finally approaches, I am sure that everyone can see the beginnings of potential fruit starting to appear in bushes and some trees around the Allotment site.
With that in mind, the Committee have updated the site’s Fruit Foraging/Picking Map, this sets out where you can forage/pick fruit that is on areas of the allotment site that are not on tenant’s own plots. The map clearly sets out these areas, which are ringed in red.
The Committee would remind all tenants that you must NOT pick any fruit/produce that is on any other tenant’s designated plot.
If it is not on your own plot, then it does not belong to you and you must not touch it!
You can download a copy of the Fruit Foraging/Picking Map by clicking on the picture below. Happy Harvesting.
Updated WATA Data Protection Policies
This post is to let you know that we have updated our Data Protection Policies. These can now be found on our Allotment Policies & Rules page on our Website.
The content is the more or less the same as when we first issued the documents (2022), however a few minor changes have been made to reflect updates to the UK GDPR itself, and changed Web Links. However, your Data Protection Rights remain the same as before.
This is our updated registration certificate from the UK ICO.
Please let us know if you have any comments by responding to this post by leaving a reply below.
Don’t forget that you can also join our growing mailing list by Opting In using this form.
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Summary of WATA Committee Meeting – 15th May 2025
As we mentioned in a previous post, the WATA Committee are now posting summaries of all of its meetings to keep tenants up to date with the various discussions that are going on both at Committee level and when we meet with WTC. You can download a PDF copy of a summary of the last Committee meeting if you require by simply clicking on the image below.
If you have any questions about the subjects of either the WATA 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.
Lauchpad/ Allotment Site success article
Here’s a great article (Click on image below) about how we are working with one of the Charities on our allotment site.
If you think that you can help in any way with this fantastic project. Come along to the Launchpad (LP) plots at the bottom end of Jersey Knoll (rows J/K) on most Monday mornings, or contact us on readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk.
Any help with digging, watering, weeding as well as any donations of any excess seedlings or final produce gratefully received. Plus, you would be helping a great charity.
Don’t forget to Opt-In to our mailing list here.
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Woodley Allotments Tenants Association at Reading Road 