GREEN efforts at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust have led to an award.
The charity responsible for the upkeep of Shakespeare’s family homes has been awarded a Silver Green Tourism Award after completing the organisation’s first GreenCheck submission.
Green Tourism assessed the 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 SBT’s commitment to 15 sustainability goals across three pillars – people, places and planet. These criteria consider the social, economic, and environmental actions SBT is undertaking towards improving sustainability.
Andrew Anderson, SBT’s environmental health and safety officer, 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.”
