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We were awarded the GOLD Green Tourism Business Scheme Award in October 2011 and Cben Gold for enviromental excellence. In the dinning room our jams and marmalade are homemade. The bacon, sausage bread and croissants (except our homemade loaf) are produced in the village with ingredients sourced within Cumbria. Bees from Ambleside help produce the honey bought from a beekeeper from Kendal and our butter is handmade on a farm near Carlisle all helping reduce our “food miles”. In the community we use local tradesmen for all the maintenance that we don’t do ourselves.
We reuse and recycle our paper, glass, plastic, tetra pacs and tins. We also have compost bins for our compostable waste. Outside we harvest rainwater to water the flower tubs. We have bird boxes and tables and have an insect hotel by the compost bins. We have maps and timetables to encourage you to walk and use public transport. We have replaced 90% of the most used bulbs with low energy bulbs. Our office stationery is recycled or made from sustainable forests, as is our facial, toilet tissue and kitchen hand towels. We clean using environmentally friendly materials where we can and buy as much as we can in bulk and decant into reusable containers. In the laundry we wash on low temperatures using non-bio powder and special laundry balls. All our printer cartridges are recycled. We switch off lights when they are not needed; TV's are turned off as we clean rooms (not left on stand by).
Used postage stamps go to the local brownie pack who collect them for the Local Children's Hospice. We sponsor Lakelanders Hockey team and are joint sponsors of the children’s races at Ambleside Sports. We commit time to Guiding, the football club, and Sports committee.
In 2010 we won the Sustainable tourism catagory in the Cumbria tourism awards and made it to the finals of the Cumbria Business excellence awards in enviromental awareness.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
