All society members and their families are cordially invited to our next community get-together, which will be held in the Orchard (on P Field) on..

Saturday 25 October  from 3.00 to  5.00pm

The theme will be Halloween so please feel free to dress up in your ghoulish best  or bring along a scary pumpkin lantern!

The committee will lay on some refreshments but additional contributions will be most welcome.  Help will be needed  to build the bonfire and set up so if you can spare the time to come along a little early and lend a hand then please do!

We are very pleased to report that the memorial event held on Saturday 13 September was a great success.  There was a good turnout of society members and friends who gathered in the orchard to celebrate the lives of Mick Cawley’s wife Gina and Simon Thorne’s partner Caroline, who both passed away recently and will be much missed by their families, friends and fellow plot-holders.  Trees were planted in their memory.

As reported in a recent post,  Simon is setting up a charity  to help people suffering from speech or hearing difficulties to communicate, through sign language, with agencies or loved ones at times of special need.  The committee acted as fundraisers for this excellent cause, raising the magnificent sum of £500 through donations and raffle ticket sales, and  Simon was presented with a cheque at the event. Thank you to all who gave so generously. NFAS wishes him every success with his plans.

There will be an informal  gathering  of NFAS Members next Saturday morning, 13th September, between 11:00am and 1:00pm in the Orchard on P field. This is being held in memory of Simon Thorne’s partner Caroline who sadly passed away recently, at a very young age.

Raffle tickets will be on sale during this week and on the day, and all funds raised will go to help Simon set up a charitable organisation that will help people suffering from speech or hearing difficulties to communicate with agencies or loved ones at times of special need. Caroline was very skilled in sign language and ultimately could only communicate by signing when speech became lost to her.

At the gathering on Saturday Simon and Caroline’s children will draw the winning raffle tickets and hand out the prizes.

There will be nibbles and soft drinks provided at the beginning, followed by a phoned order for delivered pizzas once we know numbers attending.

Please give generously to this very deserving cause, and do come along on Saturday morning if you can – and please tell your allotment neighbours about it case they have missed the notices.