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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 at our AGM on 9.3.19.
The headlines for the year 1.10.17 -
30.9.18 were:-
1,140 Volunteer days comprising of
850 practical days and 290 management The 'In-kind' value of the 1,140
days was £85,825 (based on HLF rates)
12
Volunteers live in the Bosmere Ward, 14 others live in Suffolk, another
4 in the rest of East Anglia and 2 from the rest of the UK
- The garden project continues to grow
(thank-you Steve for co-ordinating the Tuesday Volunteers)
- Volunteer skills
development included fruit tree pruning, shingle making, composting,
juicing, saw restoration, sharpening
- Monthly working parties helped with
the restoration of a local woodland
- OBee friends and family celebrated the CIC's 10th
birthday with a party
- We delivered 172.5 practical training
days to 119 students - timber framing, wattle and daub, roundwood
framing, elm bast greenwood stool making
- We delivered informal workshops and talks to 850 children and adults at events around the county
- Delivered two
Breaking New Ground/HLF funded workshops at West Stow
- Featured on Look East and Radio Suffolk
Partnership
working included Greenways Ipswich and National Trust Greenwood
Craft Group from Wimpole
We
worked collaboratively with local green wood workers to deliver Suffolk's first Saw Fest, a series
of workshops and demonstrations
Out and about at Ecobuild, Spring
Wood Open Day, Weird and Wonderful Wood, Latitude Festival,
Folk East, Pakenham Water Mill, Battisford and Chelmondiston Gardening
Clubs.
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