ARI is pleased to welcome new staff member Sanja Ratkusic, ARI Forums Co-ordinator.  This new post will involve co-ordinating Allotments Officers’ Forums in each of the nine English Government Regions. Sanja has been involved with allotments before joining ARI: she was Chair of Greenwater Pool Allotments Association and a Horticultural Worker at the Comfrey Project – an allotment project working with refugees and asylum seekers. Sanja, will be based in ARI’s North East Office.

Sanja said, “I am really looking forward to being part of such an inspiring and worthwhile project. Allotments have always played  important role in my life and lives of my local  community, they also have a huge part to play in dealing with national and global environmental issues. For these reasons I am very pleased to be involved with an ARI project and I am looking forward to the years to come.”