Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
The Friends of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale have just sent another 1748 signatures to Defra urging that the Collections be retained at Brogdale. With the 400 plus signatures which were sent in July, this brings the total to over 2000.
Some of these signatures were gathered at events run at Brogdale over the last [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on November 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
With great regret it is necessary to report that the Brogdale Horticultural Trust refuse to answer any questions that the Friends have put to them in the form of letters, nor does the Trust make any attempt to take part in any dialogue that would advance the interests of the Friends. As these questions involve [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Brogdale Horticultural Trust’s conduct continues to astonish. It receives nearly £400,000 as a bequest from a Friend and tells no one. In its accounts, for the year ending 28 February 2007, the Trust says that it ‘will be making arrangements to recognise this generosity appropriately’. So what appropriate memorial to the Friend’s generosity is [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Some people may have been puzzled by the Brogdale Horticultural Trust’s rather cavalier dismissal of the County Court Judgement for non-payment of £36,782 taxes to HM Revenue and Customs that could have been a prelude to the winding up of their trading subsidiary Brogdale Orchards Ltd., (to read reports click on links below). However, information [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Unable to be in two places at once, I tend each year to alternate my main Apple Day outings between the excellent display customarily put on at Harlow Carr by the Northern Fruit Group or the all singing, all dancing event at the National Fruit Collection’s home at Brogdale. This year it was Brogdale’s turn [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It is no secret now that East Malling Research is one of the bidders for management of the National Fruit Collections from 2008, in partnership with Brogdale Horticultural Trust and Imperial College at Wye, and if they win they intend to move the Collections to East Malling. The current issue of Horticulture Week reports that [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections, News on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Brogdale and the National Fruit Collections are ‘the subject of a bitter-tug-of-war between the the site owner, HillReed and the Brogdale Horticultural Trust’ claims Trevor Sturgess in the October issue of ‘Kent Business’, a supplement published not only in Faversham News but county wide in all the Kent Messenger Group newspapers - see ‘Split [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on October 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Bids for the future management of the National Fruit Collections were received by Defra for the second revised tender on 21 September 2007.
Rumour has it that another bidder has emerged and that there are now five competing for the new contract. It is also rumoured that three of these five bidders wish to keep the [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Many column feet have been written of late in regard to Defra’s decision to invite tenders for maintenance of the National Fruit Collections, but one point, which I feel is vital and has not been mentioned by any of the illustrious contributors, is that the Tender Document states only that the Apple Collection must be [...]
Posted in Brogdale, National Fruit Collections on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The Friends of the National Fruit Collections at Brogdale are distributing a poster: see below. Visitors to this website may wish to download this for passing on to friends and family or for display locally: eg in a house or car window or by asking local shops, farmers markets, garden centres, etc whether [...]
