Environmental News

The Directors and Management of Admontes Limited recognise their responsibility to manage the environmental impacts of our activities, products and services.

In order to promote good environmental practices, our Policy with regard to the environment is as follows: -

1. To identify the significant environmental impacts of our activities.
2. To develop suitable objectives, targets and management programmes, applying appropriate operational procedures to minimise our significant environmental impacts during normal, abnormal and emergency conditions.
3. To comply with relevant legislation, regulation and other requirements relating to our significant environmental impacts.
4. To prevent pollution, minimise our inputs of utilities and resources and the outputs of emissions to the atmosphere, effluents to waters/sewers and wastes to disposal facilities; endeavouring to re-use, recover or recycle materials where practicable.
5. To ensure that environmental responsibilities are defined, communicated and understood at all levels within our organisation and provide appropriate training where needed.
6. To ensure that suppliers and contractors understand the Company Policy and assist them in developing appropriate systems and a responsible approach with regard to environmental issues.
7. To communicate, co-operate and respond to the views of interested parties, including stakeholders, customers and the general public, on environmental issues, where this is practicable and likely to result in an overall improved environmental performance.
8. To strive for continual improvement in overall environmental performance.

The Directors
Admontes Limited

We continue to try to introduce carbon saving measures wherever possible.
Some of our efforts this year with immediate benefits are:

1. The continuation of our recycling scheme and the education of visitors,
   both young and old, of its benefits.
2. Further education of our staff to understand the benefits of energy
   savings where feasible.
3. With the aid of a loan from the Carbon Trust, the introduction of
   HouseHeat technology which communicates wirelessly between the room
   thermostats and automatic valve motors fitted to each radiator. This is in
   place of traditional thermostatic or conventional radiator valves. In so
   doing it:
   - Reduces our energy consumption
   - Reduces our CO2 emissions and protect the environment

We aim to upgrade our heating system, showers and sanitary ware in the main house by early 2010 which will, lead to more efficient heat use and water consumption. More details to follow.

We are pleased to advise that we have become a member of the Tourism and Conservation Partnership and are investigating ways of contributing further to its many worthwhile projects. In November 2009 we hosting a Partnership meeting at the Centre.

Glaramara are grateful to have received assistance from the Woodland Trust (www.woodlandtrust.org.uk) and Bassenthwaite Reflections (www.bassenthwaite-reflections.co.uk) on a project to introduce several hundred native tree species to the grounds of Glaramara. Thanks also to the Forestry Commission for lending spades and mallets. Those planted include Alder, Ash, Oak, Cherry, Rowan, Hazel and Thorn. The planting took place in November involving local school children from Borrowdale and Braithwaite. See related news article