Strategy
As a registered charity, our PURPOSE is to conserve and celebrate Gloucestershire’s orchards.
We have identified 4 categories of activity that help us achieve our Purpose
Ownership:
We will maintain our own orchards as visually stimulating, biodiverse and productive spaces, providing opportunities for both enjoyment and education;
Partnership:
We will ensure that the Gloucestershire Orchard Trusts is available, accessible and able to help orchard owners conserve and celebrate their own orchards within he county;
Collections:
We will maintain definitive collections of Gloucestershire varieties of apple and plum in the orchards for which the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust is responsible, containing every recognised cultivar, and will maintain close links with the Hartpury Heritage Trust in relation to their collection of perry pears;
Connections:
We have an ambition to increase membership to be 1000th of the county’s population, will provide regular opportunities for supporters to participate in orchard related activities and events and will maintain effective communication with our supporters and the wider community.
Mission Statement
Our vision is to establish sustainable ways to restore, maintain and celebrate the rich cultural, genetic, ecological, heritage and landscape values of traditional orchards within the county and enable them to flourish into the distant future.
To achieve this aim the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust will:
Attract and encourage a vibrant membership to enjoy traditional orchards and their unique character.
Acquire and/or manage traditional orchards to help achieve our Vision.
Encourage school and other youth organisations to visit traditional orchards and to participate in orchard management events and activities.
Plant and maintain traditional orchards to provide a genetic and propagation resource of local Gloucestershire and other heritage varieties of fruit.
Provide opportunities to encourage local communities, the membership and the public in general to be interested, participate in and enjoy the restoration, maintenance and simply the presence of traditional orchards.
Provide information and other resources for owners of traditional orchards in Gloucestershire to help them conserve, restore and maintain their own orchards.
Encourage research into the history of traditional orchards and of orchard fruit in Gloucestershire to develop comprehensive records of these items.
Develop and implement fundraising activities and strategies for GOT and to collaborate with other organisations and individuals to enable this vision and these objectives to be implemented.