Sir Ralph Perring Centre

To all Golden Lane Estate residents – if you’re not a member of the Golden Baggers but would like to find out more about the please do come along!

Dear Baggers and Friends

Please make time to join this important annual meeting – we need enough of us there to ratify any decisions and elect the Baggers Committee.

We’ll run through Baggers news, funding, highlights and fun times of 2025, and take a look forward to what 2026 holds.

We will need to formally re-elect the Baggers Committee – all positions are filled again for next year with the exception of Chair – is that you?! Do come along and vote for your favourite.

The small Committee is supported by a few volunteers who “make things happen” in the allotments. We really need more of us to step up and do this! We’re talking an hour or two here and there, or organising one thing over the whole year, vs a solid regular commitment. For example, we didn’t have a trip in 2025, or an Autumn social, or a Christmas tree, mainly because we didn’t have anyone to organise it. These are the kind of one off events we’d love to see someone stick their hand up to make happen.

Paving stones replacement in February
As many of you know, the paths in the allotment are uneven. As part of the works happening on the podium outside the allotment, opposite Hatfield, we expect to have the opportunity to partially resurface and deal with the worst affected areas.
The podium contractors will be removing ~25 paving stones from the walkway alongside the children’s area and the potting shed. They will replace them with new ones and lay them evenly. We are negotiating with them to help us with other tasks elsewhere, eg levelling the section near the gate which turns into a puddle.

It will mean some disruption for a week or so from 9 February. We are discussing the details with the project manager and will update when confirmed.

Do come along to the AGM and join the discussion!

See you there,
Baggers Committee