Hi All,
first a run down on my site, I run a completely hard standing site compromising of all raised beds for ALL disabled people but we also cater for mothers with children who dont have the time to run an allotment with their busy lifestyle, we allow them to have the time to work a full bed and still have time for their family commitments. The site has hot nd cold running water, disability toilets, a meeting, kitchen, rest area all designed and built within old cargo containers, however we were badly let down with the construction of our beds, we have been open for 7 years and we are the only outlet for a social life for some of our plot holders but it looks like our days are numbered as our beds are rotting away, the company that built our site cut corners in the building process and used poor timber ... to cut a long story short, we badley need to rebuild our beds but we have two problems we need either a huge mount of funding or (the option i would prefere, material donations from bigger companies and I also need advice from any builders out there on how to rebuild the beds as in do we use wood, brick, kick boards etc as to build beds which this time will last longer than 7 years. If we do not manage to get these beds rebuilt we will have no option than to close the site leaving a lot of disabled people in our community loosing their only social outlet they have .... I dont know how to upload images on here but if you look at
https://www.facebook.com/reederoadallotments.dagenham?fref=ts you will be able to see pictures of the beds ..... I would appreciate ANY help anyone cn give me as the situation has become desperate now.
Thanks all, Zaney :0)