New National Allotment Scheme to be announced shortly

greenloan

Hi All,

I am seeking input from individuals for a new scheme we are putting together. Please note we are not a business so do not try and sell us anything.

We are the administration arm of the Greenloan.ie scheme and we have been asked to put together a sustainable home vegetable & fruit allotment scheme, provide training, finance and support package for a national launch.

We are now seeking input from homeowners and people interested in starting a new business on the back of the scheme. It has been estimated that at least 2000 new jobs/businesses could be created. As administrators, we have to design the structure to facilitate this and the feedback we have already got has been very positive; "so much so" that the scheme is now going ahead shortly.

The initiative is simply to create a business opportunity through the greenloan clustering system (www.greenloan.ie) which would deliver an end result of a significant culture change in home vegetable and fruit growing knowledge for the consumer versus imports. i.e. create jobs at home instead of importing so much food with the added benefit of saving money for the consumer. Recent CSO figures show that we spend 18% of our household budget on food (much of it on imports) and 12% on our mortgage.

Most "one off" houses have 3/4 acre of land but even patios can be used for food growing. Our job is to make this happen and we need you to help us make it the best initiative possible with only 2 weeks to go to launch.

We would apprieciate your suggestions, interest, inputs, etc from householders, business, etc. info@greenloan.ie

The details on the scheme pilot are on www.greenloan.ie and select the Greenloan Garden Allotment Scheme and let us know how it can be tailored to suit you.

If you are a supplier of products in this category, you can also send us your contact details and what you do as we will be listing all this information very shortly also.

BUT BUT

We are very interested in hearing from people who think they would like to upskill / retrain into a sector where they would become a cluster leader and would operate this business model because their job is risky or they want to change direction or they have been made unemployed recently.

You WOULD be starting your own full-time business/part-time business/add-on business, all we can do is facilitate that with the cluster scheme and promote it, any training will be heavily subsidised. We have a significant gardening information portal integration which will be part of the scheme also.

Business start up costs are low, no premises are required and you can scale the business model to your own energy/commitment levels.

As any comments will be seen by the admin team, I would apprieciate that comments would be appropriate.

If you can make as many people aware of this consultation, we would be greatful, time is limited.

Best Regards,
Greenloan Administrator.

mikom

:rolleyes: How is this a National Allotment Scheme?

gollyitsolly

From looking at the website,seems to be all about selling polytunnels. Pollytunnels are not allotments. Is someone trying to cash in on the allotment trend and make money from people who are trying to save money?

Sonnenblumen

OP

is this all about jumping on the ' growing green band wagon' and pooling grant apps for possible qualifying householders?

it would be helpful to specify/clarify the following:

- official status of greenloan.ie so if you're not a business what are you? A charity, and if so why have stakeholders and administartors?
- who are the 'stakeholders' all seems very vague on your website. What is the significance of clustering if not to group households from a catchment area who have engaged some BER consultant?

Applaud your goals but doubtful your targets are realisable?

It all seems a little 'cart before the horse', as some of your questions are fundamental to strategy, but with an iminient launch, are you not 'jumping the gun'?

How does EI funding work in this instance?

gollyitsolly

and I object to the misleading title of this thread. False advertising.:mad:

Cabaal

gollyitsolly wrote: »

and I object to the misleading title of this thread. False advertising.:mad:

TWO posts from the OP who has the same name as the site...pimping business isn't very nice

delly

Hi Greenloan.

I would have an issue with your thread title, that it is slightly misleading. Also, while your aims may not be business orientated, such posts from commercial bodies need to be approved before they can go ahead. Since you have not done this and effectively done your own thing, I am locking this thread.