The Duxford Advent Trust and Market

The Duxford Advent Trust was founded in 2011 to provide a “home” for the village Advent Market. The Advent Market has become a very successful village Christmas community event, held in redundant St John’s Church and enjoyed by Duxford residents and visitors alike each December.

The Advent Market is both a community-enhancing project in its own right and a means of fund-raising. Money raised by the Market is used by the Trust to benefit the Village community through a small grants programme. More details about this, our work and how to apply, can be found on our website www.duxadvent.com

Getting involved in the Advent Market is great fun, whether helping set up St Johns for the festivities, welcoming visitors, operating a stall or just coming along with friends and family. If you’d like to join in, please contact us at duxadvent@rocketmail.com

Duxford Allotment Society

 

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The Duxford Allotment Society is for anyone keen to “grow their own”, whether it’s a few lettuces at home in the back garden or gardening a full-on allotment. Our emphasis is very much on growing for the kitchen, as well as maintaining our thriving allotments as a great Duxford amenity.

Why join us? As well as being a friendly bunch, we have some great concessions to help you get growing. Foremost of these are our exclusive allotment seed schemes with Kings and Seeds of Italy. Every autumn we are able to order an amazing selection of both standard and organic British seeds, many of which cost under £1 a pack. Seeds of Italy fills in the gaps with the most amazing Italian varieties, almost all of which can be grown outside here in Duxford. We also have supplies of compost and fertiliser readily available at less than garden-centre prices.

Our members are all pretty experienced kitchen gardeners (or at least they soon become so!) and love to spread their knowledge and enthusiasm. Our summer barbecue and winter talk are great places to exchange tips, and leaning on a spade chewing the fat with “next door” is a time-honoured allotment pastime.

Interested? Visit our website www.duxfordallotments.org.uk or drop us an email at allotments@rocketmail.com

Don’t have an allotment yet?