Allotment Club | Needs your help!!

Allotment Club is a social project space based on a community allotment in Penryn Cornwall. It is a grassroots artist led project run by artist and facilitator Georgia Gendall. 

This year I have already raised funds for Allotment Club to run free and inclusive creative workshops and exhibitions, funded artist residencies and a series of workshops for the community partnering with the Young Peoples Group at our local community centre The Dracaena Centre. 

Our 2023 programme of events is locally rooted yet globally ambitious and aimed at rural communities facing barriers to art and connecting them with their creativity, their environment & their health. Our Sumer 2023 program includes: a series of free workshops for the general public run by local artists - the content of these workshops will be decided in conversation with the allotment owners however the options include; fermentation, mushroom growing, watercolour painting workshops and paper making along with many more, Artists residencies, on site exhibitions and Falmouth Worm Charming Championships which is now in its 3rd year and has grown into a tradition among locals - this community day will include workshops, food, brass band and of course the legendary worm charming championships. 

Your Help

We need your help to raise funds to make the Allotment Club more accessible. 

Your donations will go towards: 

• Building an accessible compost toilet: At the Allotment Club we currently don’t have a toilet. We want to build a wheelchair accessible toilet that makes people feel at home at the Allotment Club. 
• Build a ramp into the shed: Currently the shed is raised off the ground. In order to make the studio space accessible to both wheelchair users and to make everyones lives easier we plan to build a veranda and ramp structure. 
• Potholes and a path: The allotment is full of potholes which is not good if you are in a wheelchair or are unsteady on your feet. I need to fill these in with topsoil and I need to create a path out of wood chip from the carpark to the shed and toilet so that wheelchair users can get to and from the space. Although it isn’t a stone path, we have consulted with wheelchair users that this will be sufficient as an in-between step before full accessibility in the allotment in the future. 

The breakdown of the main essential costs is outlined below (some are estimates):

• Shed: £400
• Compost toilet: £100 in materials 
• Ramp: £150 
• Top soil: £50

Anything we make beyond this will go towards keeping all our events free and accessible for everybody. 

Rewards:

We have a number or exciting rewards on offer including unique collaborative mono prints made by Georgia Gendall and Phoebe Barnicoat, Falmouth Worm Charming merchandise bundles, T-shirts, iconic Falmouth Worm Charming high visibility jackets, your chance to sponsor a worm at the Allotment Club, or have a go on the megaphone at the Worm Charming Championships + more. 

• Sponsor an Allotment Club worm - £5 
• All Slugs are Bastards patch - £5
• I’m A Charmer patch - £5
• Have a go on the mega phone at FWCC 23 - £5
• Be a worm warden and get to join us in counting worms at FWCC - £10
• Worm charming poster 2021 (rare) - £15
• Worm charming poster 2022 - £12
• Worm charming poster 2023 - £12
• Own an iconic worm charming pink high visibility jacket - £20
• FWCC 2023 t-shirt - £25
• Falmouth Worm Charming riso print poster bundle - £36
• FWCC 2023 t-shirt - £23

• Unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall and Phoebe Barnicoat - £50

Mono print options:

• Dogs and worms 
• Seagulls and worms 
• Cars and worms
• Cows and worms

Falmouth Worm Charming Championships, 2023

About me

The Allotment Club is run entirely by myself, Georgia Gendall. Until now the project has been fully voluntary since 2018. With your help, I hope to make the allotment a space that locals can get involved with over the years ahead and work together towards making a space for everyone in the community. Thanks so much for your time. I hope some of my crowdfunded rewards listed below will show how grateful I am for your kind support towards this project. 

History of the Allotment Club 

I took on the allotment in 2017 when it was a large patch of brambles - I spent the next few years bringing it back from the brink of no return by creating beds, a compost heap, planting trees, building a shed and an small exhibition space (that also acts as a water collecting device). Growing a space from the ground takes a long time and I have mainly worked on this solo. I see the allotments as a whole are a creative space; all the ways people collect water, how they train their peas or fix their sheds; I always wanted the Allotment Club to celebrate this creativity and build a space where people can come together over food, growing and creativity in all its many forms. 

In 2020 I found myself with some extra time on my hands and in the spring I worked in the allotment everyday doing all the jobs I had put off for ages. My vision was for it to be an artists residency space and project space where people could encounter and make sustainable and responsible contemporary art outside of the white gallery walls. In 2020 I started an artist residency program called Residency in a Shed; there was no money involved and it was just about sharing the allotment as a place people could come to think and making work. I had 4 local artists in residents that year but due to covid we could do any openings or sharing events. In 2021 I hosted 5 artist residencies for both local and non local artists; again no money changed hands and at the end of each residency they each held an open invite sharing event. 

And finally...

I would like to thank everyone in advance for supporting the Allotment Club. I look forward to welcoming you to the space and to Falmouth Worm Charming Championships… It’s going to be an exciting summer!!

Images of rewards: 

Seagull and Worms unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall and Phoebe Barnicoat. The print you receive will not be exactly the same as this but will be a variation on this.

Seagull and Worms unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall 

The print you receive will not be exactly the same as this but will be a variation on this.

Cow and Worms unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall 

The print you receive will not be exactly the same as this but will be a variation on this.

Dogs and Worms unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall and Phoebe Barnicoat

The print you receive will not be exactly the same as this but will be a variation on this.

Car and Worms unique mono-type by Georgia Gendall and Phoebe Barnicoat

The print you receive will not be exactly the same as this but will be a variation on this.

ASAB Badge 

I'm a Charmer Badge 

Riso edition posters

 FWCC t-shirt. 

Penryn/ Falmouth Worm Charming Championships Iconic Worm Charming High Vis jacket