What is it?

It is the county body of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners.

What does it do?

Working to promote the advantages of allotment gardeners forming local associations and affiliating to the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. Help and advice on how to form an association is available free of charge.

What are the advantages?

Some of the advantages of forming local associations include:

• Buying gardening sundries in bulk and selling to members at a discount.
• Self Management of your site.
• Sharing the cost of purchase of expensive tools and machinery and hire out to members.

What does the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners offer?

This is the body that represents the interests of allotment plot holders at every level of government from Brussels to local council to protect and improve the rights of allotment plot holders.

• Advice and legal aid if your site is threatened by developers.
• Cost effective insurance tailored to the need of allotment gardeners.
• National Seed Purchase Scheme offering Kings seeds at huge discounts.
• Advice to members on gardening matters.

If you need some advice about allotments in Suffolk email SSALG