Allotment Funding gives reflection on the Great War for Cheslyn Hay

A South Staffordshire allotment has been given £3,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s People Power Fund to help prevent anti-social behaviour. Cheslyn Hay Community Allotment Association has been awarded funding to engage with young children in the area and local schools.

As part of his commitment to local communities, the Commissioner is providing £500,000 in 2015/16 through the People Power Fund in the form of grants of between £100 and £3,000. The fund is supporting locally-driven community safety activities in communities throughout Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Colin Bedford, Secretary of Cheslyn Hay Community Allotments Association, said: “By focussing on working together it will develop the younger generations’ respect for community property at the allotments. The project will see an intergenerational group producing a video showing the development of a vegetable plot that would have been similar to that used by Cheslyn Hay villagers during World War One. The extra benefit for those youngsters involved is that they will see how they become an integral part of the village’s celebration of the contribution that so many villagers made to the Great War and hopefully they will also look to see how they can contribute to the well-being of the village in the future.”