About Us

New Mills Allotment & Gardening Society manages two allotment sites in New Mills in the High Peak, Derbyshire.

Hard work this allotment business! Clearing the site, planning the patch, getting a shed up and organising a water source.... there is a lot to manage. But, oh the rewards!

Those of our members at our Ollersett Avenue site know only too well how long it takes, but five years on they are really reaping the benefit of their hard work year on year.

And members who have taken on an allotment at our new site at Hague Bar remain undaunted by their task! They have been faced with some pretty tough conditions on the former paddock which had not been grazed for several years. It looked quite inviting at first... until they discovered it was covered in a thick mat of very long grass and well established weeds! But nothing ventured....

Our site off Ollersett Avenue was set up in 2005 with 31 plots. So far at Hague Bar the first 13 plots have been let. Further plots will be let for 2011. We have a waiting list for both allotment sites so please contact the secretary if you wish to add your name. Plots will be allocated fairly when they become available.

Membership of our society is open to any local resident who loves gardening and we are interested in hearing from any inexperienced gardeners who wish to develop their skills and grow their own vegetables. Vacant plots will only be available to residents of New Mills (within the New Mills Town Council parish boundary). Membership is currently £5 a year in addition to rental of an allotment plot which is £25 for the 2010 season.

The society also participates in the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners' seed scheme to enable members to buy seeds more cheaply than from a garden centre or seed supplier.

Benefits of membership include the opportunity:

• To network with other gardeners,
• To participate in the seed purchasing scheme
• To promote gardening as a healthy living activity,
• To rent an allotment on the new site.

For a membership form or more information please contact the secretary:

Rick Seccombe
5 Cresswell Avenue
New Mills
High Peak
SK22 4BE
Tel. 01663 747282 Email.
secretary@newmillsallotments.org.uk

or can be downloaded here as a PDF format:
2010 NMAGS Membership Application Form

The society acknowledges funding support from North Derbyshire Voluntary Action, Derbyshire Community Foundation, the Healthy Living Network, New Mills Town Council and Derbyshire County Council for development work on the Ollersett allotment site.