Oleana is a limited company owned by us, Anne and Noel Akers, who both worked in the public and private sector for many years, latterly as freelance consultants. We’ve now retired from paid work, although we both actively volunteer for organisations who do things close to our hearts, like

• West Leeds Community Media, who provide hyper-local news online and via a print edition. Anne is the Chair, Noel does the accounts.
• parkrun: Anne is the event director at Woodhouse Moor, where we both run and volunteer most weeks.
• Calverley Horticultural Society, which manages the allotments in our home village, as well as organising the annual village show.

Retirement has allowed us more time for the activities we previously fitted around work. We’re often to be found together in the outdoors, whether trail running, rock-climbing and mountaineering, skiing or gardening, (enthusiastically in Anne’s case, Noel….not so much). Anne continues to use her skills as a former journalist to write news articles and a blog and creates art in various media. Noel has gone back to his software engineering roots and keeps his brain active with home automation and software development projects.