Volunteer with us
Come and make a difference.
Learn greenwood working. Make new friends. Get fitter.
Come and get involved
in the completion of the shingle roof of the new Educational Facility (reinstated 1580 Long House). Read
more here.
Click here to read Past Masters article in March 2024 edition of Suffolk Norfolk Life magazine
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We held our last AGM on the 25th November
2023 - the annual report for the year 22-23 is below. A video of our full Impact Statement can be viewed on YouTube.
COURSES
CALENDER for
2024
As
a leading social enterprise we specialise in the delivery of Timber
Framing Restoration
Skills, Timber Framing, Wattle and Daub and Lime
courses for professionals,
home-owners, self-builders, and
anyone with an interest in getting hands-on with natural materials (or
learning how to instruct a builder more knowledgably).
We are a recognised provider of IHBC CPD
attendance certificates.
Vouchers for courses
are available. They also make excellent birthday, retirement or
retraining
presents.
Get hands-on experience of Wattle and Daub, using Hot Lime and Timber
Frame Repairs on our 4-day Timber
Frame Restoration Skills course
Y-post in Craft Barn
Elm roundwood rafters with wattle
and daub infil from above in Tool Shed roof at Orchard Barn
Watch our Earth Mortar video on YouTube.
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GREENEST COUNTY AWARD WINNERS 27.3.24
Waste Recycling and Reduction
Building with Trees and Earth
HOORAY 5.3.24 and THANK-YOU
In the last 42 days we raised £7,394
Our Reaching for the Ridge CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN pledges were matched by Aviva Community Fund
The extra
lift
of scaffolding is now installed and we have resumed fitting shingles on
the roof of our new Education Facility.The fund raising exceeded our Stretch
Target and will enable us to pay for the
components of a Rainwater Harvesting system.
Below - OBee Community Building
Photo below shows the timber frame and home made insulation in the walls of our new Education Building
Montage by Daisy of July Summer School for University College London Architecture students
CALL
OUT for new Volunteers.
Do you live in, or near to Babergh/Mid
Suffolk? Would you like to join our friendly, fun working parties? We
can offer you the opportunity to learn about making Sweet Chestnut shingles using traditional hand tools. You'll make new
friends, get fitter, have fun - all in a beautiful, natural, rural
setting?
Volunteer
Working Parties are held 9-4 most Wednesdays, Fridays and 10-3 some Saturdays.
To book
yourself onto one of our Taster Days
Email Sarah
or phone
07766-054042 for more information.
Above
- Volunteers at work and play
Anita volunteering in the hard hat area of
the site
Our 'new
normal' is the reinstatement of a holistic approach of working
with Nature that provides participants with greater awareness,
experience and insights into the interconnected of the health of humans
with the health of our environment.
Orchard
Barn has its own YouTube channel with 400+ subscribers. Have a look
at our video
about why we set up this community building project in 2007, and what
we've collectively achieved since then.
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