Becoming a Green Hotel...

We are very pleased at Cedar Manor to have been able to take some big steps into becoming a “green business”. 

This doesn’t mean that we hug trees or never put the heating on.  We have just been selecting local suppliers for our food, staying seasonal, using low energy light fittings in our refurbished rooms and low energy bulbs everywhere else.  Our boilers needed updating and we replaced them with energy-efficient condensing boilers, we only buy recycled paper and paper products and recycle what we can. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are so many other practices that we have adopted which we will show when you are here.

We soon found out that there were many practices, mostly very easy that we could adopt to make even more of a difference, and with the help of CBEN - the Cumbria Business Environment Network - we were able to achieve our first environmental award.  That was in March 2009 and we have now qualified for the Silver award and are working towards a Gold award.

We then started to work on our Environmental Policy Statement and Responsible Visitor Charter which explains what steps we have taken to become a greener business and how our guests can help us.

Please click here to view our Environmental Policy Statement and click here for our Responsible Visitor Charter.

In November 2008 we joined the Green Business Scheme which is a little bit like the AA of the green world.  Any business that wants to develop a more environmentally aware set of ethics can join and  be assessed.  “link to green business blurb”

We are pleased to have received our grading visit and in December 2009 we were awarded Silver from the GTBS.

Cedar Manor is also working together with The Tourism & Conservation Partnership on two key projects – Fix the Fells and Save our Squirrels (click to read more about these activities).   

We would like to ask all our customers to make a donation during their stay to help support this project. Upon billing you will be asked if you would like to make a donation of £2 to go directly towards helping look after our footpaths. For every £1 donated The Tourism & Conservation Partnership get another £2 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Fix the Fells and the protection of Red Squirrels. To date we have collected over £2000 for both projects.