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picked a bowl full last weekend washed then went in fridge,1 day later i got lots of tiny white maggots on them,im gonna gt a really good crop this year
help please

I,ll turn in to wine as i think wiffey is gonna turn her nose up now,i eat as i pick  :) :)

Pick the raspberries and then put them in a mixing bowl with a little salt, then the nasty things will die or rise to the top, then strain them and do whatever with them, eat or make jam or freeze.  Correct me if I am wrong, but am sure that is what my mother did.  Otherwise inspect every raspberry before you eat it, I still do that now, and mine have been OK this year.  If you make jam it boils so much kills all the bugs.

These maggots in your raspberries could be the larvae of the raspberry beetle.
You can spray with an insecticide when the fruit first forms, or you can drench the soil around the base of the plants with an insecticide in late spring when the weather warms up, as this is when the beetle emerges to lay its eggs on the fruit, which then hatch as the "maggots" you see. 
I understand that derris dust can be used too. Disturbing the soil around the base of the plant may also help.
Commercially, they sometimes use sticky traps to catch the beetle, these have 2 aims, to control the numbers and act as an indicator as to whether the grower should spray. I understand that derris dust can be used too. Disturbing the soil around the base of the plant may also help, but can see that this would have to be done carefully, as raspberries tend to be shallow rooted.
The sticky traps have an attractant mimicking the smell of the flowers which attracts the beetle, so I wonder if you could try the garlic spray option that has been discussed before on this forum - this might confuse the beetle and might work in an allotment situation.

This reminds me of an old joke.  What is worse than finding a maggot in your fruit.

Answer: finding half a maggot. :o :o :o ;D ;D

If I want poison laden fruit, I reckon it's cheaper at the supermarket. If I grow it, I can afford a bit of loss for the benefit of having totally safe crops, both from my point of view and the wildlife.

You would not die if you ate the maggots. It's best to eat the crops asap so you don't see the inhabitants. It's only a perception thing. I used to enjoy blackberries till my OH started wittering about the bugs. Now I just eat them as they are picked. They taste delicious, and I'm not dead AFAIK, though someone may know different.

I agree... if nothing else appears to be eating it why not?  :-X

My first decent crop off the summer raspberries is completely infested with raspberry beetle. Am feeling very disheartened, as lost my first entire onion, garlic and shallot crops to white rot and now the gooseberry bushes are collapsing under the weight of unripe fruit, this year's my second year as an allotment holder and everything seems to be going wrong!

You can tie up gooseberry branches to support them with canes.
Just be careful when you then start to pick them or use something over the end. In years gone by when we had good summers I used to have to do that- can just remember.
Welcome to the forum, sorry you are having some problems onion white rot is a problem on many older allotment sites- what is doing well for you?