NAS General Insurance Scheme - what has changed? Liz Bunting- Legal and Operations Manager For the last few years Shield have been acting as the broker for any allotment insurance policies taken out by our members. As a consequence of re-structuring at their offices, Shield (as broker) have passed our scheme along with several others to Chris Knott (broker). This in no way impacts on the insurance policies offered to our membership via Vantage, it is identical insurance at the same rates, via the same underwriter. It is purely the customer service element, that has changed, so for the future Chris Knott are the broker to contact with any queries or renewals.This has all been carried out with the full knowledge of NAS and we have been in discussion with Chris Knott staff to ensure a smooth transfer. We also communicated with the membership via our NAS newsletter in May as soon as this happened. Shield have subsequently sent out a letter to all policy holders. |
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Aminopyralid Contamination
If you have concerns that your commercial compost or manure was contaminated with Aminipyralid herbicide, resulting in crops showing weak or stunted growth. Please let us know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Emails should also be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., headed “Aminopyralid contamination”. |
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The Kings Seeds Scheme
Does your association take advantage of this valuable benefit? The prices in the Kings NAS Members catalogue are already discounted by 40% on mail order prices and Associations receive further discounts for bulk orders. Click here for a leaflet that explains the scheme.
The catalogues will be dispatched in early August and the early ordering discount date has been extended to the end of November.
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NAS AGM news
As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to have a huge impact on everyone, our priority at this time is the health and wellbeing of our members and the communities you live in. The NAS Management and Governance Committees have been closely monitoring the restrictions in place and sadly, we had to postpone our AGM, due to be held in Leeds on the 6th June. However, under our Co-operative rules we must hold an AGM every year and give our members the opportunity to attend and vote. So, for this year we are looking into holding a virtual AGM, which will cover business aspects only, possibly one- hour in duration to fulfil our legal requirements. Further information will be available over the coming weeks
2020 was also going to be our 90th year celebration, so in 2021 we will be celebrating “90 years and counting”.
The 2021 AGM will be held on Saturday 12th June in Marks Tey, Colchester with business in the morning and a visit to Kings Seeds in the afternoon. Liz Bunting Legal and Ops Manager |
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NAS member offers from: Access Irrigation, Chicken Guard, C J Wildlife, Garden Site, LBS, Mantis, Moonshine, Rolawn Propagation Place, W M James, WooWoo, Natural Grower
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Report from your Regional Representative
From the end of March as the impact of covid pandemic began to bite, most enquiries related to covid safety advice and the need to keep the regions allotment sites open for our northern families, went directly to the National Society.Thankfully this debate was won and the Government accepted that allotment activities could be continued safely throughout the crisis. Thank You all at Corby Head Office . Regionally we still handled 16 enquiries,mostly by post and email .These were two individual member disputes with Parish Councils and one member site covid issue.Three internal disputes involving member Associations.Two new membership requests and eight requests from non-members desperately seeking someone's help. In the Northern Branch we never refuse anyone a helping hand and some good advice but if they want the full service they need to consider joining our ranks .From the number of non -members seeking our advice recently, it is clear that NAS is sometimes the only means to help in times of trouble. Glen March. |
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