SAGS

Full name of organisation: Scottish Allotments and Gardens Society

Short version of name: SAGS

Contact person: Jenny Mollison

Address: The Laigh House, Inveresk Village, Musselburgh, East Lothian, EH21 7TD

Telephone: 0131 665 2055

Fax: None

Email: secretary@sags.org.uk

Website: http://www.sags.org.uk

Aims: To promote the value of allotments for food production and healthy activity and enhancing biodiversity. To protect allotment sites from developers by campaigning at national and local levels and by raising awareness of the planningprocess. To preserve skills in gardening.

Current work priorities: In Scotland:

Charity number:

Paid staff in Scotland: None
* Full time:
* Part time:

* Volunteers:Management committe plus co-opted members

Date Established: in 1918 as the National Union of Allotment Holders

Members: Site Associations on behalf of their members, individual plotholders. City sites, banded together in Forums or Federations, join as Affiliated Members.

Local groups: None

Land owned or managed in Scotland: None

Publications: Regular publications - Quarterly newsletter.

Also, "Growing Scotland" published Spring 2007

"Finding Scotland's Allotments" published August 2007

Last Updated: August 2007