Following the discussed at last year’s AGM, this October the membership needs to take significant decisions on governance and incorporation. More details will follow over the next few weeks, so please keep an eye on your emails.
EWAA Committee
URGENT: Help Keep EWAA Growing!
Love your plot? Enjoy the peace, the produce, the people?
Without volunteers, the allotment cannot survive.
YOUR ALLOTMENT NEEDS NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS NOW
Without your help, we face an uncertain future.
Management, shop, events, maintenance – all depend on VOLUNTEERS
Step Up & Make a Difference!
We’re looking for new committee members to help:
✅ Keep the site open and maintained
✅ Organise membership
✅ Run the shop
✅ Attend bi-monthly Committee Meetings
Several of the current committee members have been volunteering for many years, and will stand down at the AGM in October.
No Committee = No Allotment
✉️ Contact us to get involved using the form on this page.
Choose the first option “Make a general enquiry”
Don’t let it go to seed! Join us today.
EWAA Committee
Hosepipe restrictions
Thames Water has set restrictions on water use from Tuesday 22nd July until further notice. No hosepipe use will be permitted on the allotment site other than by members who are on the Thames Water’s PRIORITY SERVICE REGISTER (for reasons of disability, chronic illness, etc).
If you intend to use a hosepipe for filling water containers through the period of restrictions, please contact the membership secretary via the contact form so that the Committee has a record.
Skip & disposal of rubbish
Skips are expensive to hire – the one on site in June cost almost £500. The Association can’t usually afford more than one per year. All plot holders have a responsibility to keep the site tidy:
- Organic waste (grass clippings, leaves, etc.) should ideally be composted on your plot.
- Whenever possible, take your rubbish home and dispose of it with your domestic waste, or at Redbridge recycling centre.
- DO NOT bring your household rubbish to the site.
- DO NOT dump rubbish anywhere on site, including outside the Shop.
Please keep in mind the difficulties of waste disposal when considering whether to bring things that are “bound to be useful” to the site – either you or subsequent plotholders will have to deal with them at some point!
The accumulated waste outside the Shop is being managed by the Committee. Please do not disturb or add to the separate piles.
If you have any questions, get in touch with the committee via our contact form.
There are four more shopping Sundays before the August closure
- 6th July, 11.00-12.00
- 13th July, 11.00-12.00
- 20th July, 11.00-12.00
- 27th July, 11.00-12.00
The EWAA Shop does not open during August, so after July the next opportunity will be September 7th. Click here for a reminder of the supplies you might need for the months ahead.
The skip is now full!
Please do not bring any more items for disposal – take any rubbish away with you, either to your domestic bins, or your nearest waste disposal site. If you have any items which you think might be useful for someone else, please advertise on social media – do not leave outside the shop!
New arrival – jute netting!
The Shop now has a stock of biodegradable support netting for peas, beans, etc. – a welcome alternative to the awkward plastic!
Each hank measures 2m x 5m, and the gaps are 100mm square.
REMINDER: Plant swap – this Sunday, 11th May 10:30am
Do you have a glut of one kind of plant but a gap in another patch? Come to the plant swap!
Date: Sunday 11th May
Time: 10:30-12:00
Place: Social Area on the Middle Lane
This is a great way to meet other plot-holders, so come along for a chat even if your beds are already full. And do bring your excess plants to share even if you aren’t looking for a swap.
Plant swap – Sunday 11th May 10:30am
Do you have a glut of one kind of plant but a gap in another patch? Come to the plant swap!
Date: Sunday 11th May
Time: 10:30-12:00
Place: Social Area on the Middle Lane
This is a great way to meet other plot-holders, so come along for a chat even if your beds are already full. And do bring your excess plants to share even if you aren’t looking for a swap.
Shop open Easter Sunday
The EWAA shop is open this weekend, Easter Sunday 11:00-12:00.
It’s time to get your spuds in, and the ground might be a bit softer now after the rain. We still have some seed potatoes left, ready-sprouted and keen to be planted:
- First earlies: Swift, Duke of York, Caledonian Pearl
- Second earlies: Wilja
- Maincrop: Marvel
There is a wide variety of seeds for both vegetables and flowers, and plenty of compost to sow them into.
The shop has a lot besides – soil improvement, pest control, crop protection, ground cover, canes, and all sorts of bits and pieces. See a full list here.
See you on Sunday! And every Sunday until August, 11:00-12:00.