Green Bosinver

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Sustainability sits at the heart of everything we do

We’ve always understood the fragile balance of the environment and the demands we all make on it. Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Bosinver – we think about how every decision made affects the environment – from our choice of suppliers to how we construct our buildings, from how we manage our land, to how we run our business.


Our aim is to give all our guests a magical, memorable holiday, while minimising the impact we all have on the environment – find our more in our Environmental Statement.

 

 

“Bosinver strikes me as a really responsible business, making decisions based on ethics, sustainability, protecting the local environment, supporting the local economy, supporting families to have genuinely wonderful holidays rather than just maximising profits.” Naomi H

With over 100 people staying at the farm every week, we know we’ve got an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of environmental issues and act as example to our guests. If we can encourage all our guests to change just one thing, over time this can have a big impact. We encourage guests to act sustainably by:

  • Refunding taxi journeys from the station to Bosinver if guests come without a car.
  • Promoting local days out using public transport – we’ve created a free ebook guide to family days out from Bosinver by public transport, ’50 things to do without a car’.
  • Providing secure cycle storage and links to local cycle hire companies who will deliver to Bosinver.
  • Offering several electric car charging points including one at Lowen Cottage.
  • Providing information about recycling, compost caddies and recycling bags to encourage guests to recycle their waste.
  • Using guests’ leftover food to feed our animals or turning it into compost to use in the gardens.

Our eco-house, swimming pool and renewable energy technologies

As part of our commitment to sustainable tourism, we built a zero carbon eco-house Lowen in 2011. Lowen was made from reclaimed timber and lime rendered straw bales. It’s carbon neutral and energy self-sufficient, using PV panels and a ground source heat pump to provide electricity, heating and hot water to the house. Lowen generates enough electricity to power itself plus two other cottages and send energy back to the grid and has its own EV (electric vehicle) charger for Lowen guests to use.

Our indoor swimming pool is heated by solar energy and renewable technologies and we have a PV solar array to generate 50% of our electricity needs. The cubicles in our swimming pool changing rooms were made from recycled plastic detergent and fabric conditioner bottles.

We want your waste!

You’ll find a bag in your cottage to collect your recycling throughout the week. When it gets full, you can transfer what you’ve collected to the bins in our recycling area. There’s one set of bins for glass, and another for clean, dry recycleable materials, including steel and aluminium cans/tins, paper, cardboard and plastic.

Composting

You’ll also find a compost caddy in your kitchen to use for vegetable waste. The food compost bin can be found in the general recycling area. Please place the whole bag of food waste into the compost, the bags are bio-degradable. If you need more compost caddy bags during your stay, just ask.

Cleaning

We use eco-friendly cleaning products from Green My Business in all our cottages, and they’ve trained our cleaning staff how to use them most effectively to minimise waste.

Local suppliers

Wherever possible, Pat and Dave always try to support other talented local producers and businesses. Whether it’s that amazing light fitting in your cottage’s living room or the frozen meal you order for your arrival, you can be sure they’ve tried to source the very best local products from local companies, artists and craftspeople.

We also support the People and Gardens’ Veg Bag Scheme which gives people with emotional and physical difficulties opportunities to work, as well as giving our guests the chance to enjoy fresh, local produce.

Local Environmental Networks

We are proud to be Ambassadors for the Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Forum (COaST) and Business Members and supporters of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. We have won a number of awards for our sustainability:

2017 Winner of Cornwall Sustainability Award for Longstanding Commitment to Sustainability
Green Tourist Business Scheme – Gold Award (held since 2008)
Cornwall Sustainability Award for Connecting Your Business With Nature
Trip Advisor Green Leader Platinum Award

Our tourism awards

The effort and quality Pat and Dave have brought to Bosinver has been recognised both locally and nationally. They won Gold at the 2015 Visit England Awards and in 2017 were national winners of the first VisitEngland Family Friendly Accommodation award, which both take pride of place alongside numerous other accolades. From multiple Gold awards at the Cornwall Tourism Awards to Green Tourism awards, Bosinver has been recognised for its excellence year after year and time and time again.

Exterior shot of Lowen cottage at Bosinver, showcasing the solar panels on top of the cottage.
On a mission to keep
the world beautiful

Our gorgeous zero carbon house Lowen is also totally energy self-sufficient.  In fact it generates enough electricity to power itself plus two other cottages and send energy back to the grid!

We include up to a whopping £475* of Extras in your holiday!


Your first family holidays will be some of the most special you take. To make sure you get great value from your break at Bosinver, we include a whopping £475 worth of activities and facilities within the price of your holiday. So once you arrive you’ll know that you can relax and enjoy the time you spend with us without worrying about additional costs.


*When compared to similar venues that charge extra for activities, facilities and equipment.

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The very latest from the bosinver team


Action Nan and the rest of the team are always busy writing posts that we think you’ll like – from top tips on where to take the kids, to what’s likely to be going on in the local area when you stay – we’ve got it all in our blog!