Leicester City Permanent Allotment Society

The Leicester City Permanent Allotment Society has two sites, one at Braunstone Close and another at Rosamund Avenue in Braunstone.

Plots and Membership

You can rent plots of various size, which range in price from £8.00 to £22.00.

Contact Details

To find our more, contact our Secretary, Margaret Reynolds, on 0116 2890870.

Services

We have an allotment shop which is for members only and opens at both sites on Sunday mornings. You can purchase a range of products.

Allotment Society News

Open Day

Each year we hold an open day to welcome new members and for an opportunity for people to purchase our produce. Please come along and enjoy the various activities on.

Allotment Open Day - Saturday 18th August from 10.30am. (Rosamund Avenue Allotments, Braunstone Town)

News June 2007

Exactly 80 years ago, on 3rd June 1927 a meeting was held at Narborough Road Council School at which the Leicester City Permanent Allotment Society was formed. This meeting, attended by Mr Day (we are assured that it was not Terry) was the beginning of what are now the Rosamund Avenue and Braunstone Close Allotment Sites.

In July 1927, the Society was registered, with the affiliation fee being £3/2/6d. By September (at the cost of £5 an acre) 9 acres of land was ready for the plots to be pegged and numbered and avenues prepared to allow vehicles to access the site. In November, Potters the Ironfounders of Western Road, tipped ashes, free of charge, to build up the avenues. Mr Gamble, a neighbouring farmer, was asked to reserve his manure (make up your own jokes) and Mr Turnbull was contacted about rights of way to the site.

Finally, the Leicester Mercury ran an advert to encourage newcomeres to take up vacant plots, at a rental of 4/6d per 100 yards to be paid in March and September each year.

And so, after 80 sucessful years, our local allotment society will be celebrating this anniversary on Saturday 18th August with an Open Day, to which everyone is cordially invited. The open day is a regular annual event but this year promises to be special, in honour of those who started it all. Watch this space for details .