Constitutions
Sample constitution (to adapt for your group)
Advice on growing
From Garden Organic: No Dig Gardening
Back to Front Manual here
Back to Front Community Guidelines booklet here
See also a huge number of downloadable files in the ‘Growing Vegetables’ and other sections of the LESSN ‘Bookshelf,‘ and also of dozens of links on the Advice pages
Agreements, Licences and Rules
Feed Leeds’ Advice re Community Partnership Agreements (see below for pro forma) here
Community Partnership Agreement (use this when you’re ready – NB see Advice note above first) here
Rules re bonfires (anywhere in Leeds) here
Allotment Structure Rules 2015
LCC presentation on contaminated land here
Volunteers and Groups
Recruiting Volunteers (from Parks) here
Volunteers and the Law (from Volunteering England) here
Volunteers Health and Safety here
Safeguarding (requirement for all volunteers on LCC land) here
Data Protection here
Funding
There is now a one stop shop for funding in Leeds: Funding Leeds
Food Strategy and Policy
See the Leeds Food Partnership
