2021-22 RENT IS NOW DUE!

There are still 60 plot-holders who have not paid their rent for 2021-22!

On October 4th the EWAA Treasurer sent a personalised email to each plot-holder, from email address ewaa.treasurer@gmail.com. The message contained instructions for paying the rent online to the allotment bank account.

If you did not receive an email please check your mailbox SPAM folder as soon as possible.

All rents must be paid by the end of the October.

If you have a query, please contact Jon, our Treasurer, on the email address above.

EWAA Committee

Work Parties – help needed

This coming Saturday & Sunday, 10:00~12:00

We need volunteers to help with various jobs around the site:

  • Cut back brambles and vegetation
  • Clear communal paths and car parks
  • Pick litter

Sat 16th October & Sun 17th October between 10:00 & 12.00

Please meet at the shop and bring gloves and any useful tools: gloves secateurs, loppers, rakes and wheelbarrows.

If you know when you’re likely to join us please do respond to this message, but it’s fine to turn up on either day whenever you can make it.

Looking forward to seeing you!

EWAA Committee

Invitation from the Children’s Allotment

Dear East Ward Plot-holders,

You’re invited to join us to celebrate the changing season and the re-launch of The Children’s Allotment.

We’ve been busy working on the site and we want to share our progress and plans for opening and activities for families coming up this Autumn!

Saturday 23rd October 13.00 – 15.30

With:
– Apple pressing & juice
– Homemade sourdough pizza oven
– Bonfire
– Outdoor play for children

Suggested donation £5 per family
Bring cash for the pizza oven!
Funds raised will support The Children’s Allotment

Join the Facebook event for updates

Timber in the Shop

Are you building a raised bed? Do you need to repair your shed? Do you have plans for a fruit cage?

The EWAA Shop may have just the timber you’re looking for. The following items are currently in stock:

  • Kick board – 3.6 metres long
  • Feather edge – 2.4 metres long
  • Deck bearers – 6″ X 2″
  • Fruit cage posts – 3″ X 3″
  • Fruit cage rails – 3″ X 2″

No More Paper Towel

Because the used hand towels in the toilet block regularly spill out of the waste container and onto the floor, causing an unhygienic nuisance, the Committee has decided not to refill the paper towel dispenser beside the basin from now on.

Thank you for your understanding.

EWAA Committee

Rent Payment 2021-22

Acknowledging that the Covid pandemic has affected many incomes over the past year, the EWAA Committee has decided not to apply any increase to the plot rents charged for the coming year.

On 4th October, following the plot inspection, the Treasurer will email each plot-holder with details of the rent due, requesting a bank transfer, exactly as last year.

It is therefore essential that we have the correct email address for each plot-holder. If you suspect that EWAA messages do not reach the plot-holder’s mailbox, please send an email to treasurer@ewaa.org.uk as soon as possible.

Anyone not wanting to make a bank transfer will be able to pay online by card (this is new).

All rents must be paid by the end of October.

Drug users in EWAA car parks

Over recent weeks several members have reported their concern at the increasingly regular presence in the EWAA car parks of local drug users, especially around the pile of woodchip outside the gate to the Middle and Howard Street Lanes.

Please contact the police whenever you witness any drug-related behaviour on or around the allotment site:

  1. Call 999 immediately if there is no doubt what is happening. Police officers will be despatched without delay and anyone found with drugs on them will be charged with an offence.
  2. If there is a delay because you remember something after the event and think that drug use may have occurred, you should report it to the police on their non-emergency number – 101.

The committee has reported the general pattern of behaviour to the Thames Valley Police, incident number INC-20210922-1228, and both the Community Policing Team and the Oxford Public Spaces Drug Taskforce are taking up the matter. Any one of you can use the TVP website to add further details to the incident www.thamesvalley.police.uk/.

The more reports they receive the more police presence we can expect.

EWAA Committee

Important Dates in the EWAA Calendar

Dear EWAA Members, 

The Allotment has a busy weekend in its calendar in the middle of October, so please put these dates in your diary now, and join us in the annual Autumn activities:

SATURDAY 16th OCTOBER
Work Party 
Various locations and tasks across the site
10:00~12:00

Apple Juicing 
Under gazebos outside the Shop
Bring clean bottles with a lid, your surplus harvest, and any windfalls
14:00~16:00

SUNDAY 17th OCTOBER
Work Party 
Various locations and tasks across the site
10:00~12:00

EWAA Annual General Meeting
Under gazebos outside the Shop
12:00~13:00

Details of each separate event will follow soon, and notices will go up on the gates.
We’re really looking forward to seeing you over that weekend, and to welcoming new members who have yet to experience the harvest season at the East Ward site!

EWAA Committee 

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