July Newsletter 2023
Dear friend, June has been a beautiful month up on the allotments with vibrant flowers in bloom and the community harvest in full swing with plenty of salads, kale, herbs,…
Hungerhill Celebrities
The artist Dame Laura Knight is regularly mentioned in relation to the Hungerhill Gardens. Her Uncle Arthur was a tenant during the late 19th century, and, to her biographer, she…
National Volunteer Week 2023 – by Lucy Kennedy
National Volunteer Week 2023 National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration of volunteers contributing within their communities in all kinds of ways. At STAA we are excited to join National…
Allotment music
On the 12 September 1862, the Nottinghamshire Guardian reported that an Amateur Horticultural and Flower fete by “a society, whose object is the promotion and encouragement of Horticulture and Floriculture,…
Doctor of Damsons
You may remember that the Rev. (and subsequently Dean) Samuel Reynolds Hole was synonymous with the St Ann’s Rose Show at St Ann’s Allotments. From attending his first show in…
April newsletter 2023
Dear friend, We’re delighted to announce that we’ve secured a further 3 years of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund for our new Growing Together project, starting in May…
