This project encourages and supports community in relearning how to work, rest and play together, co-operatively with nature, for the great good.

Orchard Barn Environmental Education Community Interest Company (OBee CIC) Registration Number 6379982 - Wildfire Designs 2007 - Photographs by Richard Smithson

OBee Community Interest Company Objectives

1. Provide environmentally sustainable indoor and outdoor facilities and structure for community activities.
2. Increase participation in heritage activities.
3. Provide opportunities for learning traditional skills through practical participation.
4. Employ, and encourage through education, the use of natural resources and organic techniques.
5. Conserve and enhance the historic features of the local landscape, including traditional orchards.
6. Develop community-supported vegetable plots, orchards, and woodland.
7. Encourage existing wildlife, and aim to increase biodiversity, by improving the habitat.
8. Provide increased access to, and opportunities for exercise in, green space.
9. 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.