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As a
Community Interest Company we produce an annual report - based on
our social, environmental and heritage outcomes. This report was
verified by OBee CIC Members our online AGM on 28th November 2020.
The headlines for the year 1/10/19 -
30/9/20 were:-
Due to Lockdown the number of volunteer days was slightly down on last year, comprising 624
practical days, 303.5 semi-skilled days and 147 skilled days
The 'In-kind' value of these 1074.5
days was £120,820 (based on HLF rates)
28
Volunteers live within a 10 mile radius of Orchard Barn, 13 others live
in Suffolk, another 7 in the rest of East Anglia and 6 from the rest
of the UK
- The gardening project continues to
grow a range of tasty produce
- Volunteer skills
development included hedge-laying, timber framing, green wood working,
wattle and daubing, archaeology, museum curation, local history
research
composting, preserving produce, old carpentry tool restoration and
sharpening
- Pre Lockdown we held a Wassail in
the orchard and an event called Love Wood
- We
delivered 10 courses, these included Greenwood working, Restoration
Skills, Traditional Carpentry (West Suffolk College Construction
students) Wattle and Daub x 2, Lime Finishes, an Introduction to Timber
Framing.
- We awarded 35 IHBC CPD attendance
certificates
- Delivered Heritage
Lottery funded training both in the woods and framing the next stage of
Long House frame
- We also ran a Suffolk
Community Foundation funded project for older people, and more timber
framing for volunteers was funded by The Radcliffe Trust
- Lady Skinner
Charitable Trust funded the making of the museum shelves
Partnership
working included Greenways Ipswich, West Suffolk College,
Suffolk County Council, and Orchards East
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