new to allotments.....were to start

Good luck with that Rich. Keep us posted.

Welcome aboard Rich.

You are going about this the right way by  showing your commitment and enthusiasm.  The only advice I can give you is try and talk to the decision makers at the allotment society.  You must put yourself on the waiting list and then try and get some sort or verbal "gentleman's agreement" that when the committee  terminate the agreement for that plot, the membership agreement will transfer to you.

Sadly, enthusiasm and hard work may not get you to the top of the waiting list.  If the allotment society committee terminate the agreement for the plot that you are working on, in my society,  the plot will go to the next person on the waiting list.  This is fair, but no good to you.

As a committee member of my allotment society my biggest fear is that a plot will go dormant and we have to ask the member to vacate their plot.  The second biggest fear is that the new tenant will be just as much of a clown as the last one!

I take a zero tolerance approach to delinquent plots.   

Best of luck fella.

As has been said before on my site if this guy gets evicted the plot would go to the person at the top of the waiting list so you could still be puting work in that someone else is going to benefit from!

good luck with it anyway and hope you are lucky and get the plot!

A plot that size on our site would probably be split into 5 plots and lose 5 off the waiting list 

My other issue with this type of arrangement that Rich.h44 has with his allotment buddy is that There should be a distinction between member and plot holders.  Our insurance (which goes up every year) covers us for members not plot holders as is a makes a distinction that a member can work a plot but not always sign an agreement. 

We have several plots on our site that are worked by more than one person.  This year we asked for all the members details and charged non plot holders the cover price of the insurance policy £2.00 each.  So my Mum & Dad have a half plot so that's two people working a half plot so they paid an extra £2.00 this year.

My plot neighbour has himself and three others working his plot.  Insurance is included in his membership but the other three all paid an extra £2.

Don't get me started on the amount of keys these people have.  One member told me his family all have a spare key just in case they want anything!  WHAT?  That conversation did not go well.