OBee CIC is a social enterprise established in 2007 to oversee the renovation of a traditional building - Orchard Barn. In the last 4 years we have run practical courses in Timber Frame Repairs, Cob Building and How to Reconstruct an Authentic 17th Century Roof on this live restoration project. We have also run an active Volunteer Programme and annual events such as Tree to Timber, Rediscovering the Vernacular and Creating a Greener Home. We have run these events in partnership with Anglian Woodland Project, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, Suffolk Branch of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and Suffolk County Council's Green Building Network. In 2010, we hosted Suffolk Historic Building Group's Day School. Later in 2010, the local Environment Agency chose to come and help with our new roof project for their annual 'Help the Environment' day.
We comprise of a Management Team of 4 Directors, a Company Secretary, Treasurer and Membership Secretary.
These are our company objectives:-
Provide environmentally sustainable indoor and outdoor facilities and structure for community activities.
Increase participation in heritage activities.
Provide opportunities for learning traditional skills through practical participation.
Employ, and encourage through education, the use of natural resources and organic techniques.
Conserve and enhance the historic features of the local landscape, including traditional orchards.
Develop community-supported vegetable plots, orchards, and woodland.
Encourage existing wildlife, and aim to increase biodiversity, by improving the habitat.
Provide increased access to, and opportunities for exercise in, green space.
Increase, through a holistic educational programme, community awareness and understanding of the effect the individual has on the environment – and the vital interconnectedness between the health of the environment and the health of the individual.
The CIC has an 'asset lock' which means that we put any profit we generate into planting trees in the local community.
OBee Community Interest Company - committed to hands-on, low-tech environmental education.
CIC Registration Number: 06379982
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