Community Orchard - a possibility?

Went along to a district-council sponsored training day with the East of England Apples and Orchards Project. There were people from about ten local groups there from villages across south cambs all interested in setting up a community orchard.
Cambridgeshire is one of the least wooded counties in the UK, with only 2.1% woodland cover. Its orchards are both valuable wildlife
habitats and important landscape features, even though they are dwindling.

The day-long event covered ideas about planning, design, site selection, and technical stuff on cross-pollination and rootstock selection. The pic on the right is of us all shivering round an apple tree at Melbourn's community orchard taking in the finer points of pruning, and the pic next to it is the aspiration!
We will discuss at the parish council next week, but this will take some organising to grow it from a seedling into a Thoday's Quarrenden or a Huntingdon Codlin!