Our users are the thousands of individuals, communities, local councils and other stakeholders involved with allotments. An eclectic mix of people and organisations encompassing:

• Plotholders
• Allotment associations and allotments societies
• Horticultural societies
• Local council allotments managers and elected members of councils and assemblies
• Local community groups
• Statutory organisations such as schools, NHS, SureStart, the probation service, police and fire service
• NGOs and charities, such as Age Concern, BTCV, Friends of the Earth, Garden Organic, Groundwork Trusts, MIND, RSPCA and Wildlife Trusts
• Voluntary and community agencies
• Potential plotholders, councils, private landowners, farmers, housing associations and developers wishing to create new allotment sites
• Government and representative groups such as DCLG and the LGA.

Although not a membership organisation, since its inception ARI has collated a database of organisations interested in allotment regeneration and the creation of new allotment sites. To date over 3,900 entries have been registered representing the diverse organisations and individuals working toward a positive future for allotments in the UK. We estimate that over 150,000 allotments users have already benefited from the Allotments Regeneration Initiative. The users themselves have helped shape ARI’s work programme, following research, feedback and suggestions. This way of working has helped the project to evolve into a format and service that reflects its users needs.

All database contacts receive regular mailings from ARI and access to a wide range of publications, invitations to events, and are encouraged to engage with ARI services on an ongoing basis to develop a supportive network.

We support a constituency that ranges greatly in size and location: from tiny ‘pocket sites’ with only two or three plots through to larger sites which may have upwards of 300 individual allotment plots; from entire council portfolios to existing and emerging Local Allotments Federations’ portfolios.  Examples of such can be found anywhere in the UK, from deprived inner-urban areas, to isolated rural communities – will work with all of them.

"We would like to express our thanks to Allotment Regeneration Initiative staff firstly for always being on the end of the phone or e mail when we needed advice, for providing one of our volunteers with two excellent training days, for the superb web site which we used one day back in July 05 to guide us round the allotments of Bristol, for providing us first class local Mentor support and best of all a travel bursary to attend a project in Swindon working with vulnerable adults. We gained some useful ideas on recruitment and referral for own our project and saw some good best practise examples of allotment management and landscaping" Kevin Chubb, Inroads Go! Allotment Project for people with drug and substance mis-use issues

“I sincerely thank you for all of your time over the last however long it has been on this journey. You have always been kind enough to take my calls and respond to my email quickly, and your insider knowledge has been invaluable.” Fee Davis