At English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues, we take great pride in getting involved wherever we can in environmental and sustainability projects.
Protecting Our Natural Environment
We recognise that our guests come to the Lake District & Lancashire primarily to immerse themselves in the spectacular scenery of the area. With that comes a responsibility to protect our natural environment and to contribute to its wellbeing.
That’s why we’ve recently made a £5,000 donation from the English Lakes Hotels Trust Sustainability Fund towards an environmental and conservation project in North Lancashire.
Ellergill Beck Woodland Creation
The £5,000 donation to The Lune Rivers Trust is supporting the creation of woodland along a section of Ellergill Beck in Bentham, just North of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within close proximity to the Lancaster House Hotel.
The funding is being applied to plant 400 trees across an area of 0.33 hectares, together with associated stock fencing. It’s part of a larger overall Lune Rivers Trust project, the Ellergill Beck Woodland Creation, with a plan to plant 1,800 trees in all.
Conservation and environmental improvement projects like this are precisely what our sustainability fund is all about.
Sustainability & Eco-tourism
The hotel group is also endeavouring to work in the most sustainable and eco-friendly way with a wide variety of renewable energy projects too. These include solar panels at Lancaster House Hotel, a biomass project at The Wild Boar Inn, and a hydro-electric turbine and combined heat and power (CHP) plant at Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa.
Those efforts have been rewarded with the attainment of the Green Key eco‐label for The Wild Boar Estate, an internationally recognised accolade for our approach to sustainability and eco-tourism.
Doubling Lancashire's Woodland
As far as the tree planting initiative is concerned, there is much work to do. The National Forest Inventory states that less than six per cent of Lancashire has tree cover. The Ellergill Beck Woodland Creation project is part of a larger 10-year campaign by Lune Rivers Trust, Ribble Rivers Trust and Wyre Rivers Trust to double the woodland area across the county.
The project is designed to have long-term benefits on the environment, with the trees being planted in locations where they will make optimum impact on river catchment management and the protection of aquatic environments.
The Lune Rivers Trust
The Lune Rivers Trust is a charity dedicated to the conservation, protection, rehabilitation and improvement of the River Lune and its catchment tributaries from Tebay in Cumbria to Pilling in Lancashire.
"We’re thrilled that the English Lakes Hotels Trust Sustainability Fund has been able to make such a valuable contribution to this project. The creation of riverside, riparian woodland has multiple environmental benefits. It helps to reduce flood risk by slowing flows, minimises the erosion of river banks, improves water quality and conditions for fish, and supports carbon sequestration."