January 2012 - Wassailing Event Goes With a Swing!!
October 2011 Apple Day 2011 a great success! check it out!
Autumn 2011 Newsletter Click here to see our latest Newsletter July 2011 "SCOG wins Award" The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust promotes the safeguarding of wildlife and wild places in Lincolnshire along with an understanding and enjoyment of our natural world. The Lincolnshire Environmental Award for Community Groups, organised by Lindum Rotary Club in partnership with Lincs Wildlife Trust has been won this year by the Stamford Community Orchard Group.
June 2011 Check out our new Facebook link at SCOG Facebook
Spring 2011 Newsletter Click here to see our latest Newsletter October 2010 Click here to read about Apple Day 2010 held in the Stamford Arts Centre on 2nd October 2010. 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
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.
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.
