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Please see the crowd-funder (click  here ) in memory of Allan Craig organised by his brother Garry and mum Shirley. Allan came to volunteer with us for a while, and during that time, amongst other work in the garden, he helped rebuild the public pond and planted the snowdrops along the public path which will remind us of him each year as they bloom.

Shirley, Garry and a number of their friends and family are doing the Allendale challenge this year to raise money in his memory. We are touched and very grateful to be chosen as beneficiaries of this fund.

We wish them all very good luck and sunshine on the day of the challenge! Thank you to all who have donated already 🙏

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2022 WILL be the year we start to produce fruit! Although we tried last year, and planted a fruit garden with financial help from the Corbridge Gardening society, the birds and deer were the only creatures to have benefited from it in any way. I tried to beat them to Read more

We are blown away and so very grateful to the family of local John Nixon (known to everyone as Joe) who have donated £1,295 to the project. Joe sadly passed away on the 21st September, and the village came together for a monumental send-off involving stories of his life, shared Read more

It’s a while since we’ve done any big works to the site so there hasn’t been a lot to report in that area lately. BUT we’ve recently started to develop that massive hole in the ground that was dug next to the shelter last year, and turn it into a Read more

Our board are hiring! We need a dedicated funding lead director who can dedicate time to sourcing relevant funds and out together a working funding strategy to ensure we always have funding bids on the go. We meet once a month for board meetings and once a year for our Read more

  Its that time of year again when the grass begins to grow and the temptation to cut and roll our lawns into neat stripes is almost irresistible. However pleasing to look at, vast expanses of short, uniform grass provide little in the way of habitat and food for wildlife Read more

Two of our volunteers, Adam and Arran are now working together at Adam’s gardening business Heritage Country Gardening. Arran has been working hard for us since October and Adam is working towards an RHS qualification, he is our volunteer profile in our newsletter this quarter.  They are already booking out fast Read more

Spring is here! And more importantly, the kids are back at school!!! Thank the powers that be. With restrictions being gradually lifted and the vaccination programme sweeping through our midst the mood has changed here in the valley, there’s a definite buzz and being next to the school, we can Read more

Here’s hoping all of our friends, family and supporters have had a peaceful and healthy Christmas. I’m noticing that lots of friends are saying that they’ve really enjoyed the slow pace and low pressure Christmas this year. I know that for a lot of folk this will have been a Read more

Welcome along again, I haven’t blogged for a while and there is so much to cover since the summer I’ll only talk about a couple of things. THE GOOD – The best news that we can report is that Allendale has thankfully remained relatively free of the lurgy. Since my Read more