Our contact details:

Organic Countryside Community Interest Company

Company registered in England No 6794848 VAT No:947 3003 31

Registered address:

23 Tye Green, Wimbish, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 2XE

Phone: 01 799 599 643

• Organic-Countryside Community Interest Company: is a limited company owned by its shareholders who can receive no dividends from their shares. They aim to help the company achieve a trading surplus to be used to achieve the benefits to the environment that the company was established to promote. The full details of the legal constitution are given in our Memorandum & Articles of Association (download a printer friendly pdf file: (700Kb))

• What is a Community Interest Company? A CIC is a limited company that can trade in the same way as any normal company but its major purpose is to benefit the community that it serves. - details of how CICs work are on the Companies House CIC regulator's web site
  
  
• Here's our statement of the community we aim to serve and what we plan to do (as approved by the CIC regulator):
• Enabling members of the public to become directly involved in organic farming, as small scale investors in land to be converted to organic agriculture and/or participate in organic farming and the the formation of community assisted agriculture groups
• Increasing the numbers and variety of farmland wildlife by facilitating the wider adoption of organic agriculture
• Encouraging the production of more organic food and its consumption within the region of production
• Aiding young (suitably qualified) people wishing to become organic farmers but unable to buy their own farm, to find suitable land available for rental

 

Who are Organic Countryside's directors?

These are the details of our present directors. Organic Countryside CIC is a new company (first registered in January 2009). A new board of directors will be elected (or re-elected) at the first and each subsequent Annual General Meeting by the shareholders of the company. We aim to increase the number of directors (all unpaid) to broaden the range of experience and expertise available to us.

 

Dr David Corke (current executive director and company secretary) - one of the founding directors		After studying the ecology of yellow-necked mice at Royal Holloway College (University of London) for is doctorate, David lectured in Wildlife Conservation & Ecology at the University of East London where he was responsible for developing and running the first ever UK degree course in wildlife conservation. He also worked in the West Indies on the ecology and conservation of the island's unique reptiles and worked with RARE Conservation - an American charity promoting conservation in third-world countries. Now he is a publisher of books on wildlife (mainly Essex natural history) through his company Lopinga Books. He is also a director of Saffron Walden Community Interest Company - the organisation that runs Walden Local Food market.
Mrs Susie Boatman		Educated at Bishops Stortford & Saffron Walden High Schools, Susie gained her degree in mathematical engineering at Loughborough University. During her undergraduate course she spent a year working with the Essex Wildlife Trust investigating the potential for organic farming as a tool for wildlife conservation. On graduating, Susie worked with Uttlesford District Council (in the department that oversaw the introduction of wheelie bins and a massive increase in recycling locally). Today she works as a statistician with the Office of National Statistics based at Histon and specialising in the statistical analysis of the East of England Region's economy.
Mr Peter Riding (co-opted as director July 2009)		Peter was joint founder and first project director of the BBC Networking Club, which evolved into the current BBC web site. Previously he was an Executive Producer at the BBC, where he developed numerous pioneering series including The Net, the first regular British television series about the Internet, and a weekly Radio 5 series The Big Byte. As Director of Webserve for the past twelve years, Peter created CancerHelpUK for the University of Birmingham, a major site which has since been adopted by the Cancer Research Campaign. Among the many other sites he has been associated with are Trees for Life, Climate Care and Stop Stansted Expansion and is also a director of Greenchoices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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