The OAE

The OAE is an organisation committed to a sustainable future. In 2011, OAE set out to embark on our first green tour, and as a result the entire administrative team made a commitment to the cause. Since our initial first steps we've worked on developing our environmental policy and are continuing to focus on projects for 2012 as well as incorporating sustainability across all aspects of the Orchestra's work. A copy of our Sustainability policy can be downloaded here. We are incredibly grateful to Julie's Bicycle for helping us with our Environmental policy. In 2012, we did the following: March 2012 was Green month: we planned and carried out a UK based tour as well as a UK based Education concert tour Anthem for a Child with environmental issues taking priority- for example, the players travelled by train instead of driving separately, and on the Anthem tour, some of the players cycled between venues. For more information, click here We also held a low-carbon bake sale to raise awareness amongst our colleagues in the office. All funds raised from the cake sale went towards planting a tree to carbon-offset our output this month.