Isles of Scilly swimming holiday

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION
We have designed our trip operations carefully to minimize our impact on our environment. By its very nature, exploring the world via swimming – “human powered”, means our guests are not using unnecessary motorized vehicles to enjoy their holiday destination. We try to keep our transfer times as short as possible, ensuring guests spend less time travelling and more time swimming on their swim holiday. All our trips are sold without flights so travellers have the option to use more environmentally friendly means of travel if they wish. Boat travel to Scilly is encouraged and we share all guest arrival times so that collective transfers can be arranged.

Vegetarian & Vegan food is available daily from both our guest house and the local restaurants that we choose to visit in the evenings. The guest house use fresh local ingredients from the local fishermen to create delicious breakfasts and packed lunches for us.

ENVIRONMENT & WILDLIFE
As swimmers, we are passionate about the environment and taking measures to protect both the oceans and lands including all local wildlife. We encourage all our swimmers to wash out their swimwear and wetsuits between swim locations in an attempt to reduce species introduction and protect habitats.

We continue to be reminded of the problem of plastic in our oceans. As such, we are committed to helping reduce to amount of plastic we use on our trips. We do this by:
• Encouraging guests to bring their own reusable water bottle on tour, or purchasing one of our non-plastic reusable alternatives
• Running regular guide plastic clean up sessions in our locations
• Using locally grown produce and home-cooked food wherever available to reduce the amount of plastic food packaging bought

People

LOCAL ECONOMY
We work closely alongside our guides to deliver an unforgettable holiday experience for our guests. Our local partners provide an invaluable wealth of local knowledge, not only on the safety front, but also by enhancing our guest’s cultural experiences – from food to customs and hidden-away local gems. Through years of building happy, positive relationships with our local partners, we are confident in the knowledge that our guests will receive a wonderful warm welcome. Our hosts in Scilly, Nick & Bry have lived on St Mary’s for many years and their family have grown up there.

As most of our locations are small and remote, we make sure that our itineraries ‘spread the happiness’ meaning we take the guests to visit different businesses within the community. For example, we arrange for evening meals to be hosted at a local restaurants each night, ensuring that the economic benefits brought about by our operation are distributed in an equitable way on the island.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY
Equal opportunities are at the core of what we do. By avoiding peak season we are able to help extend the season for our host accommodation which enable them to open for more weeks of the year providing better employment opportunities. All our trips are inclusive and everyone is welcome to join us as long as we can make suitable arrangements for any individual needs. The trip is LGBTQ+ friendly and we are happy to discuss individual needs relating to mobility, vision, hearing or cognitive issues and as long as we can put in place measures to ensure the trip remains safe for all guest, we welcome everyone.