ARI factsheet: Promote the plot

Promotional ideas for allotment associations. 

CampaignOn

Allows groups or individuals to set up their own website to promote small-scale local campaigns on any issue. It's free and simple to use, and provides a practical means to communicate with supporters and to direct lobbying campaigns at political re ...

Community Website Builder

The Community Website Builder allows registered UK charities, non-profit making organisations and volunteer led groups or organisations to build and maintain their own website free of charge.

Friends of the Earth

Produce two factsheets in this area which may be of interest:  'How to use the media' - with advice on writing a press release and being interviewed, and 'how to fake it as a photographer'. 

Growing in the community: A good practice guide for the...

The Local Government Association has revised this best-selling resource for allotment officers and associations, to provide an update on the policy framework, legislation and practice affecting allotment gardening.

The new edition contains a we ...

Manchester Harvest - Report

This report summarises the benefits of allotment gardening particularly from a health perspective. It is the result of a project exploring the potential of allotments to be used as green byms for therapeutic horticulture with particular reference to how t ...

National Allotments Week 2008, 11 - 17 August

National Allotments Week is now promoted by the National Allotment Gardens Trust in partnership with the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. It is a week to:

• Promote the awareness and availability of allotments both ...

National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners (NS...

Advice (including advice on the law relating to allotment sites) and guidance on all aspects of allotmenteering. Insurance and discount seed schemes for members. 

Professionals 4 free

This is a new website, which has been designed for voluntary and community groups looking for free help from professionals, brokers of free professional services who want to publicise what they do and professionals who want to volunteer their services. ...

Quick guides: Handling the media

One of a series of 24 pages guides produced by Directory of Social Change on a wide range of subjects for people who need to get to grip with a topic fast.

The Media Trust

The Media Trust is a dynamic, innovative charity bringing together the media industry and charities. The trust works to build effective voluntary and community sector communications through a range of partnerships, proj ...

VAN briefing - How to write a press release

Voluntary Arts Network briefings are short (4 pages), practical and highly accessible. Although written with voluntary arts groups in mind, the briefings contain all the basics and will be useful to any community group loo ...

VAN briefing - Publicity explained

Voluntary Arts Network briefings are short (4 pages), practical and highly accessible. Although written with voluntary arts groups in mind, the briefings contain all the basics and will be useful to any community group loo ...