Dear friend, A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who support us with their skills, dedication and enthusiasm Volunteers are at the core of STAA, integral to all our delivery, and we’re so proud to celebrate their achievements this National Volunteer Week. We’ve also launched our Summer workshop programme, including planning your winter…
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Each year in May I spend a significant amount of time looking up at the sky. Not only do the warming temperatures trigger the formation of impressive cumulonimbus clouds (the huge fluffy ones), but we’re treated to the return of Swifts to our skies. These birds undertake one of the world’s longest migrations of any…
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Dear friend, Thank you to all of you who voted for us but we are sad to share that we didn’t win the Severn Trent Award for our Growing Wild project. This would have significantly increased our support for wildlife on-site and the number of people we could have involved in our Urban Nature activity.…
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Dear friend, A new STAA project at Urban Nature has been shortlisted for a Severn Trent Community Fund Gold Award and we need your help to make sure we win it.The award total is £20,000 to support our ‘Growing Wild’ project to enhance inner-city green spaces here at St Ann’s Allotments. The awards are chosen by public vote…
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I’ve been reflecting on the purpose of our Urban Nature garden, particularly as Spring awakens. It is a series of 10 plots on St Ann’s Allotments, established nearly 20 years ago as a space to be managed for wildlife. What does that really mean? Of course, the whole site is beneficial for nature as…
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For those of you, both gardeners and visitors, who have gallantly trekked up and down the steep avenues and pathways of St Ann’s Allotments, being out of breath is a natural hazard. Today, gardeners may be able to drive their cars to within a reasonable distance of their plot, but inevitably there will be those…
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