Not any more. Now that so many women are going out to work, frozen vegetables have come into their own, with the result that there are many vacant allotments. Some of these are threatened with development. We help with rents, tools and seeds. The latter I buy at a discount from a friendly garden centre.
Tools come from army surplus, sales and friends.
All the project needs is a little spare cash and a contact with the unemployed. I have started 'Allotments for the Unemployed'. I send him to the appropriate City Hall Dept to get an allotment near his home. Then he sends me the bill, which I pay to City Hall. In the first season two allotments were rented, and in the second season four allotments.