Ella Dunlop (Clinical Medicine) launches Allotment Club for college community
A new Allotment Club at Green Templeton College is hoping to bring people together as lockdown restrictions begin to ease while also promoting sustainability.
The project has been organised and developed by Ella Dunlop (Clinical Medicine), who has received support from the Annual Fund to help cultivate an allotment plot in Old Marston to grow vegetables, encourage wildlife and pollinators, and provide exercise and socially-distanced communal activity.
Ella outside the Green Templeton College greenhouse. She wants her Allotment Club to promote sustainability.
Ella said: “Gardening and growing have thrived through the pandemic with the need for outdoor space and a change of pace from work-from-home office hours.
“This activity will benefit all college members as it will provide a more cohesive community, bringing the corners of the community that have felt isolated during lockdown back together. Holding an allotment together also promotes the identity of GTC as an inclusive and sustainability-focused college.”
Ella sourced the allotment back in October before applying for Annual Fund support. Through the generosity of donors, the Annual Fund provides grants for academic-related activities and support for college life. Ella hopes college members will enjoy helping her transform the “overgrown” plot into a food-producing, wildlife-supporting community project.
Ella describes the allotment as “overgrown” but hopes the GTC community will come together to transform it.
All college members are welcome to become involved, including the children of student parents. Opportunities to sign up to help with the allotment will be communicated via email and Facebook. A rota system will be in place to ensure numbers are kept within the latest government guidelines and the site will adhere to COVID-secure measures. All sessions at the allotment will be led by Ella or a fellow Allotment Club member with advice and help given to those who would like to help grow, plant and harvest.
The Allotment Club will launch in March with weekend activities running from March to September, with a possible break in the summer. A harvest event will be held in September.
For more information, please contact allotment@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
To join the Allotment Club mailing list, please email gtc-allotment@maillist.ox.ac.uk. You will then be sent a subscription request.
Alongside providing an enjoyable outdoor activity, Ella is keen for the allotment to further the college’s commitment to sustainability. The food grown at the allotment will be offered to the Green Templeton kitchens, while kitchen scraps and other suitable material will be donated to the allotment for composting purposes.
Green Templeton is committed to working collectively for a sustainable future and is proud to have won a Gold Award in the 2020 NUS Green Impact Awards, in the first year the college submitted the application.
A wonderful evening for the Green Templeton community in Sydney. It is always special to see alumni reconnecting and making new connections wherever they are in the world.
Thank you to Oceania Group and everyone who joined the group’s inaugural annual dinner.
The group’s next gathering takes place in Brisbane on Tuesday 8 September – another welcome opportunity for our alumni and friends in the region to connect.
A great start to what we hope will become a growing tradition for the college`s community across Oceania.
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Alumni in Switzerland came together in Geneva on Swiss National Day for the first in-person gathering of our college`s Switzerland Alumni Group.
After the group’s inaugural online meeting earlier in the year, the gathering was a chance to finally put faces to names, reconnect over memories of Green Templeton and Oxford and hear where life has taken everyone since.
Conversation ranged from career paths and professional exchanges to life in Switzerland and ideas for the growing alumni group.
Josephine Agyeman-Duah (DPhil Women’s and Reproductive Health, 2018), Chair of the Alumni Group, said:
‘It was splendid to reconnect with GTC alumni from different periods and to celebrate Swiss National Day together in Geneva. Our first in-person gathering was a wonderful opportunity to strengthen connections and our GTC alumni community in Switzerland.’
The group is now looking to establish a committee and hopes to connect with other Oxford and Cambridge alumni groups in Switzerland.
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Happy International Cat Day! 🐾
It’s been quite the year for Vincent!
After several years of making the college his home, we are delighted to say that we have officially adopted him. A familiar and much-loved face around the college grounds, he has a special way of bringing smiles to everyone he meets.
We’re so proud to officially call him ours!
Happy International Cat Day, Vincent! 💚🐈⬛
✨ Come behind the scaffolding with us.
We were given rare access to the Radcliffe Observatory restoration project, climbing onto the roof to see the incredible conservation work taking place behind the scenes.
From spectacular views across Oxford to the Observatory`s intricate zodiac carvings, we discovered details that are normally hidden from view.
Join us as we explore one of Oxford`s most iconic landmarks!
Earlier this summer, we were delighted to welcome audiences to our inaugural Garden Play, with a series of sold-out performances of Shakespeare`s `As You Like It` set in our beautiful college grounds.
Our gardens became the Forest of Arden as students, staff, alumni and the wider Oxford community came together to enjoy open-air theatre in a truly unique setting. Even better, the production has received fantastic reviews from Oxford`s student press.
A huge thank you to everyone who performed in and supported this wonderful initiative.
