- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust awarded a Silver Green Tourism Award across the organisation, after completing first GreenCheck submission.
- Green Tourism assessed Shakespeare Birthplace Trust as a whole, alongside site submissions for Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Shakespeare’s New Place with each submission achieving silver accreditation.
- The Award demonstrates Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s commitment to 15 sustainability goals across GreenCheck’s 3 pillars of people, places and planet.
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has been awarded a Silver Green Tourism Award after completing the organisation’s first GreenCheck submission. Green Tourism assessed Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust as a whole alongside site submissions for Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shakespeare’s Birthplace and Shakespeare’s New Place, each submission achieved silver accreditation.
The Silver Green Tourism Award demonstrates Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s commitment to 15 sustainability goals across three pillars of people, places and planet. These criteria consider the social, economic, and environmental actions the Birthplace Trust undertake, providing a holistic assessment of their sustainability performance.
Andrew Anderson, Environmental Health and Safety Officer, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust said: “The Silver Award demonstrates that we have adopted good practice across all GreenCheck three pillars and support the Trust in developing an action plan so we can improve and enhance our sustainability practices going forward.
“The Green Tourism Assessors highlighted our Green Action Plan, Carbon Literacy training and compliance, our commitment to Health and Well Being and our approach to using Chemicals which covers everything from cleaning products to hand soaps and our use of pesticides and herbicides as areas of particular success. The Silver Green Tourism Award gives us a clear direction so we can aim to achieve the gold award in future as well as demonstrating to our visitors that we are serious in our approach to sustainability.”
Green Tourism certification has been designed and managed by qualified and experienced sustainability experts who understand the challenges of tourism and hospitality businesses. Green Tourism’s practical framework provides actions to help businesses make positive impacts and cost savings, enhance an organisations reputation, and gain a competitive advantage. Find out more about Green Tourism here: https://www.green-tourism.com/
The Silver Green Tourism Award demonstrates that the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is delivering on its ambition is to work in as sustainable a way as possible, to minimise its environmental impact, and to become an exemplar of an environmentally sustainable operation within the heritage sector. Find out more about the Trust’s sustainable commitments here www.shakespeare.org.uk/about-us/sustainable-shakespeare/
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