Please find below Bullet Points from our last Committee meeting. Simply click on the image below if you would like a PDF to download and read offline.
If you have any questions/comments, 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 our speaker for the September monthly meeting was unavailable at short notice, the Committee decided to proceed with the meeting and present a ‘half-term’ report on the Committee’s activities since the last AGM, held approximately six months earlier.
Please find below a link to the comprehensive minutes of that meeting. You may notice while reading that some of the items discussed have already been addressed; those that have not, are still being looked into.
I apologise for the delay in getting these out to everyone. If you have any questions about items in the minutes, please contact us readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk and the Committee will be happy to provide any information required.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Our next WATA General meeting will be held on Monday 13th October at the Oakwood Centre in Woodley, this time starting at 7pm. As with previous meetings, we will start with a general Allotment Associating update on a number of items, followed by a guest speaker.
This meeting’s guest speaker will be Jonny Furze, who is a Compost Scaling Engineer from Soil Ecology Laboratory/Soil Smiths. They are a research company that looks at the best ways to enhance soil quality.
In terms of the evening talk, it will be a general outline of the microbiological life (soil food web) within the soil, introducing people to how the web of life within the soil functions, and how various parts of the web interact with plants to bring nutrition to the plants. There will also be a review on composting, which we think will be of interest to all tenants, along with a few tips.
One interesting aspect of this talk is that they ask you to bring along a soil/compost sample from your plot to have it analysed under microscopes so you can see exactly what is in it.
Their talk will be about 45 minutes long and they encourage people to come along with questions. Once the talk has finished, people can continue questioning them as they start to look through their samples. Hence, the earlier start of this meeting.
Soil Smiths are a commercial company that manufactures and sells products related to the topic of this talk, which they will being along and offer a 20% discount on any purchased on the night. Just so everyone is aware, the Committee have no financial interest in or any connection with Soil Ecology Laboratory/Soil Smiths, we however think it will be an interesting talk for all that attend.
Please let us know by responding to this post as soon as possible or via readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk, so that we can get an idea of how many people may want to attend.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Please find below Bullet Points from our last Committee meeting. Simply click on the image below if you would like a PDF to download and read offline.
If you have any questions/comments, 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.
Please find below Bullet Points from our last Committee meeting. Simply click on the image below if you would like a PDF to download and read offline.
If you have any questions/comments, 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.
In case you were not able to attend our WATA General Meeting at the Oakwood Centre last evening, we have attached a PDF copy of the presentation that Launchpad’s Kirsti Wilson gave about their activities in and around the Reading area. It was good to hear just how much valuable work they do in this area. You can download a copy of the Slide Presentation by clicking on the image at the end of this post.
If you would like to come along and help with our onsite Launchpad plots that produce food for the Readifood scheme, and help with weeding/watering or even providing extra assistance on corporate days, then just reply to this email and we will arrange to meet up with you.
We also discussed a few Allotment Association items, including the Co-opting (under para 3h of the Constitution) onto the Committee of Wendy Wilkinson as the Committee Secretary and Geoff Wilson as the new Committee Treasurer (taking over from Mike McNamara who has been carrying out this role temporally). There was also a discussion about Plot Inspections, which we will talk about in another, more detailed email in the coming days.
Lastly, yes there will be another meeting as we are looking to hold these on a regular basis. The next one will be in early August (date to be announced), we have not yet picked a final topic/speaker, some suggestions could be Honey Bee/Asian Hornet threat, No-Dig to name two. Let us know if you have a topic you would like to see covered.
Kind Regards
WATA Committee
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.
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.
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.
If you have any questions about the WATA/WTC meeting, 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.
Woodley Allotments Tenants Association at Reading Road 