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SCOG News and Events


October 2009   Our sixth Apple Day was held in the Stamford Arts Centre on Saturday 3rd October.

July 2009   Many people visited our SCOG exhibition in the Town Hall which had been opened to the Public as part of the Stamford Festival on Saturday 4th July.

March 2009   Please consider sponsoring one of our Apple trees and check out Sponsor an Apple Tree

Prince Charles

January 2009   On the 20th January HRH The Prince of Wales visited Stamford. At the Town Hall Prince Charles met with members of various community groups including our own SCOG Chairman.


February 2008    Some of our volunteers continued with the planting of the New Community Orchard in Stamford, assisted by pupils and staff from Bluecoat School. Some twenty one apple trees and hawthorn hedging have now been planted - eventually the site will support 40 trees.

Orchard

Included in the planting were varieties of apple that were originally bred in Stamford over 100 years ago - the Peasgood Nonsuch, Barnack Beauty and the Schoolmaster.


Funding for the project largely comes from the successful Stamford Apple Days, which take place on the first Saturday in October in the Stamford Arts Centre.

The land for the orchard has been leased from South Kesteven District Council, and the Woodland Trust Trees For All project has sponsored the hedgerow plants and tree stakes, whilst the Stamford Skells Trust has sponsored fencing and gates for the site.