LAND CENTRE APPLICATION
FORM
Join the permaculture learning and demonstration network and be part of an exciting and
inspiring network of groups and projects all showing that permaculture works!
About You.
Please tell us how we can contact your project, how we can contact you and your current
relationship with us, at the Permaculture Association.
Your Name:
Project Name:
Address:
Postcode:
Tel:
Email:
Web:
Contact Details for main contact person (if different):
Address:
Postcode:
Tel:
Email:
Web:
Please tell us the name and number that your Permaculture Association membership is
under
Name:
Number:
The Permaculture Association, supporting ecological design and sustainable
living through education, research and networking.
Charity No: 1116699, Company No: 0590819
Address: BCM Permaculture Association, London, WC1N 3XX.
Tel: (0)845 4581805 /(0)113 2307461
Web: www.permaculture.org.uk
Email: office@permaculture.org.uk
About your Project.
Please tell us a bit about your project.
Please summarise your project in 20 words
Please briefly describe your project
What short snappy phrase best describes your project? E.g. “Community Forest
Garden”, “Urban Food Project”, “Community Allotment Project”...
Please indicate which areas apply to your project.
yes / no Advice & information
yes / no Appropriate technology
yes / no Aquaculture
yes / no Biodiversity promotion
yes / no Composting
yes / no Disability issues
Training
yes / no Energy production
yes / no Finance
production
yes / no Forestry/woodlands
yes / no Housing
economies
yes / no Manufacturing
yes / no Recycling/Reduce/reuse
yes / no Animal husbandry
yes / no Arts & crafts
yes / no Architecture
yes / no Community development
yes / no Design consultancy
yes / no Education &
yes / no Energy conservation
yes / no Food
yes / no Health & welfare
yes / no Local
yes / no Media and publishing
yes / no Research
yes / no Site design
development
yes / no Strategic development
yes / no Wildlife conservation
When did your project begin?
yes / no Site
yes / no Water conservation
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How much space do you own/manage?
Is the land: owned by you/ rented/ council owned/ not applicable/ other please
specify.
LAND Centre Criteria.
We would really like for LAND centres to be examples of Permaculture in practice
around England, so when someone says ‘Permaculture what’s that?’ or ‘Surely it
can’t compare to conventional methods of food production’, you can prove by being
part of the LAND project and demonstrating permaculture in practice to visitors and
volunteers that permaculture actually does work!
In order to find exemplar permaculture projects the existing permaculture network has
come up with a set of essential and desirable criteria which act as benchmarks for LAND
centres to work towards (please see supporting documents for a copy of the criteria).
These questions refer to the criteria which the existing permaculture network thought
were essential.
DESIGN
Does your project have a design that uses the principles and methods of permaculture
to grow food?
yes / no
If yes please briefly describe and explain how the design for your project uses
permaculture principles and methods
Is your design developing using permaculture ethics and principles?
yes / no
NETWORK
Would you use the Permaculture Association’s website to promote your project?
yes/ no
DEMONSTRATE
Do the key members of your project have a good understanding of Permaculture?
yes/ no
Please use five words or pictures to describe/show how you will demonstrate
permaculture in practice to visitors and volunteers.
WORKING WITH VISITORS AND VOLUNTEERS
How many visitors could your projects receive at any one time?
What facilities do you have available for receiving visitors and volunteers?
Would you be willing to keep records of the number of visitors and volunteers that
come to your site?
yes/ no
Does your project have public liability insurance?
yes/ no
If you don’t have it or you’re not sure what it is, would you like the LAND project
team to recommend an insurer for you and discuss how it would be applicable for your
project?
yes/ no
Does your project have Health and safety procedures in place?
yes/ no
LAND IDENTIFICATION
As a project would you agree to display membership to the LAND project on your project
website and include links to the Permaculture Association’s website?
yes/ no
These questions refer to the criteria which the existing permaculture network thought
would be desirable. The desirable criteria are not mandatory but it would be great if
your project was willing to work towards them!
ORGANISATION
There will be a space on the Permaculture Association’s website for you to show and
tell your project to potential visitors and volunteers. Would you use this space to
post news about your project and any visitor and volunteer opportunities available at
your project?
yes/ no
Please summarise in less than 20 words how you organise your project.
RESEARCH
Does your project conduct research?
yes/ no
LAND IDENTIFICATION
Would you be willing to promote the LAND project and how you are part of this exciting
network to visitors and volunteers at your project?
yes/ no
EDUCATION & LEARNING
Does your project offer courses?
yes/ no
Does your project have training and education resources available?
yes/ no
SKILL SHARING OPPORTUNITIES
The LAND project will be organising regional skill sharing and training events
Would you like to attend the various skill sharing and training events?
yes/ no
Would you like to act as host for the regional skill sharing and training events
yes /no
THE SUPPORT YOU NEED & HOW THE LAND PROJECT CAN HELP YOU.
The LAND project team would really like to help and support your project in any way
possible, by answering the following questions this is your opportunity to let us know
how we can support you.
What skills and resources does your project need?
What skills and resources does your project offer?
Do you have any developments planned?
Can you offer any skills and/or resources to visitors and volunteers?
PROJECT DECLARATION TO BE SIGNED BY PROJECT LEADERS
This part of the form needs to be signed by the main contact person and another key
person involved in your project. Please can you send this part of the form to: The
Network Coordinator, BCM Permaculture Association, London, WC1N 3XX and email the rest
to Louise at network@permaculture.org.uk. We need to receive a paper copy of this
part of the form to process your application.
Please make sure that everyone involved in the running and planning of your project has
read through the essential and desirable LAND criteria, this way everyone in your
project will have a shared understanding of what a LAND demonstration project is.
Please don't hesitate to contact the office and the network coordinator if there is
anything that is not clear to you, or you feel needs to be explained in more detail.
What we will do for you:
 Process your application promptly.
 Visit your project and provide one to one support on site where we will discuss
together how to support your project.
 Help identify specific support based on your project's development needs.
 Provide ongoing support via the Permaculture Association's office, which can help
with day to day issues, and put you in touch with other support that we cannot
provide.
 Provide information and networking facilities.
 Reserve space in the newsletter to promote your project, find allies and further
support.
 Add information to your individual project web page if your project has limited
access to the internet. (If possible please send information via email or post a
CD-ROM.)
 Help your project to disseminate research findings, which may include publishing.
 Help your project integrate into the network as a whole by identifying individual
support needs and opportunities to share skills and knowledge.
We, the project applying to be a LAND centre agree that we:
 Fulfil the majority of the essential criteria and are working towards achieving
the desirable criteria.
 Run our project using permaculture ethics and principles.
 Will participate in monitoring and evaluation procedures for as long as the LAND
project is funded by 'The Local Food Fund'.
 Obtain appropriate insurance for the project. The responsibility of insuring our
project, remains with us and not the Permaculture Association. You may be asked
for a copy of your insurance certificate.
 Will inform the Permaculture Association of any change of address, phone or email
details.
 Include LAND branding and logos on our project website and publicity documents:
 Refer to the LAND project and the Permaculture Association in media coverage of
our project. (If there is limited space we will try to include the Permaculture
Association's website details.)
 Use our individual project web page to record information about the events that
we our holding and the number of visitors/volunteers that have been to our
project.
 Will tell the Permaculture Association about case studies and project successes
so that the association can include them in the quarterly newsletter.
 Will tell the Permaculture Association if our project runs into difficulties so
that they can provide extra support.
 Agree to the information on this application being stored electronically,
available to other members of the public via the office, on the Permaculture
association’s website and in the Permaculture association’s newsletter
‘Permaculture Works’.
1. Print Name:
Date: /
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2. Print Name:
Date: /
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Signed:
Signed: